Kyle Newman is an author and award-winning filmmaker who has directed numerous feature films including the Star Wars-fueled comedy Fanboys, A24 Films' Barely Lethal, and 1UP for Amazon. He has directed the music industry's top artists, including Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey, and produced films such as A Disturbance in the Force. As an author, he is known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana, the New York Times bestselling cookbook Heroes' Feast, and its follow-up, Heroes' Feast: Flavors of the Multiverse. An honors graduate of NYU's Tisch School of Film/Television and a member of the Directors Guild of America, Newman resides in Los Angeles with his partner, Cynthia, and his four children.

Jeff Bond is an author, magazine editor and freelance writer living in Southern California. He is the author of The Music of Star Trek, Danse Macabre: 25 Years of Danny Elfman and Tim Burton, The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen, and several Titan Books including (with Gene Kozicki) The Art and Visual Effects of Star Trek - The Motion Picture and Cowboy Bebop: The Making of the Netflix Series, as well as The World of the Orville, The Art and Making of Narcos, The Art of Star Trek: The Kelvin Timeline, and others. He has edited various incarnations of Geek magazine since 2006 and covered film music for The Hollywood Reporter for ten years.