Mary McNear, the author of the Butternut Lake series, writes in a local doughnut shop, where she sips Diet Pepsi, observes the hubbub of neighborhood life, and tries to resist the constant temptation of freshly made doughnuts. Mary bases her novels on a lifetime of summers spent in a small town on a lake in the northern Midwest. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
Carrington MacDuffie has narrated over two hundred audiobooks and has received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, as well as been a frequent finalist for the Audie Award.