Jean Hanson
is the author of The 5,000 Friends of Veronica Veetch.
Her short stories and essays for adults have been published in numerous magazines, including North American Review, Zoetrope, Indiana Review, Nimrod, New Letters, and Alaska Quarterly Review.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, she has received a Pushcart Prize nomination, an artist fellowship in fiction from the Colorado Council on the Arts, the Hackney Prize, the Writers Repertory Award, the Literal Latte Essay Prize, and a Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. Jean lives in Colorado with thousands of “friends” and two clever cockatoos.
Launie Parry
is the illustrator of The 5,000 Friends of Veronica Veetch.
She is an award-winning graphic designer whose work has brought many books to life. Launie and her husband, George, have two daughters, one cat, and a golden retriever named Maisie who is known around the office for her sweet disposition and very bad manners.
Launie also has her own design company and is available for branding projects and book design at red-letter-creative.com.
Bailiwick Press
is the publisher of of The 5,000 Friends of Veronica Veetch.
Headquartered in a lovely red brick house in Fort Collins, Colorado—a city renowned for its innovative microbreweries—Bailiwick is an innovative micropress that takes children’s literacy seriously.
The press was created in 2009 by an author, Karla Oceanak, an illustrator, Kendra Spanjer, and a designer, Launie Parry. Bailiwick’s flagship series—the Aldo Zelnick Comic Novels—has garnered awards, critical acclaim, and thousands of young readers. Bailiwick Press belongs to the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), and its titles are distributed to the trade by Legato Publishers Group, an affiliate of Publishers Group West, an Ingram company.