Beth Daniels-Henderson (1946- ) was born in Dayton, Ohio and obtained her history degree in 1990 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a romance novelist who has published under a variety of names, including Beth Daniels, Beth Henderson, and Lisa Dane. Prior to becoming a novelist, she worked for Las Vegas radio station KLUC. While writing her first several novels, she worked for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas James Dickinson Library. She continues to write and teaches online writing workshops.

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British academic Peter Collins is an author, lecturer, and consultant on gambling and the gaming industry. A graduate of the Universities of Oxford and London, he founded and directed the National Centre for the Study of Gambling at the University of Cape Town in South Africa between 1995 and 1999. In 2000, he relocated to England, where he served as director of the Centre for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Salford, Manchester. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Public Policy in the university's Salford Business School.

American composer Alan Copeland was born on October 6, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. His musical odyssey began at age ten when he started piano lessons. Three years later, Copeland began taking a serious interest in music and became a member of the Robert Mitchell Boys Choir. The choir appeared on countless radio shows and in over one hundred motion pictures.