In the Cape Cod Witch Series J Bean Palmer calls upon her family's long history in New England including a Revolutionary "Green Mountain Boy," Cape Cod cranberry farmers and artists, and an oft-told family legend that as her grandmother's ancestors stepped off the Mayflower, her grandfather's relatives were there to greet them. With a degree (summa cum laude) in Environmental Science, the author's ElsBeth stories reflect a passion and respect for the natural world and its magical kinship. J Bean is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, National League of American Pen Women, the Cape Cod Cultural Center, and a former board member of the Cape Cod Writers Center.

Chris makes some use of his education in philosophy at a small New England college--and subsequent practical application as a short-order cook on Cape Cod, a Boston cab driver and a computer software and Internet services executive in California--in contributing the poems that are sung or spoken by several characters in the stories. Chris is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and a 14th generation Cape Codder. He and his wife J Bean currently reside in a converted barn on the banks of a western Maine river.