Carol Marrs Phipps is a teacher turned author. She was born in Missouri, grew up in Illinois and lives on their farm in Illinois with her husband, a blue-front amazon parrot, a raven and 4 Siberian Forest cats. Tom Phipps (Carol's husband and co-writer), also a teacher turned writer, is a native of Southern Illinois where he grew up on his family’s large farm. Carol & Tom taught on various Native American Reservations in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada, where they learned a great deal from their students, the very first fans of their writing. Not long after they married, Carol discovered to her joy that Tom also loved to write. They have been writing together full-time ever since. The books Carol & Tom have written together include: Elf Killers which takes place a millennium before the books of the Heart of the Staff series, Good Sister, Bad Sister, The Collector Witch, Stone Heart, The Burgeoning, The Reaper Witch, the final book of the series, Doom, and Heart of the Staff: Complete Series boxed set and Heart of the Staff: Complete Appendix. Recently, Carol and Tom launched a new Dystopian/Urban Fantasy series with the first book of a planned trilogy, Wham! (Book1 Timewalker, followed by Then... (Book 2 Timewalker) and are currently writing the third and final book of the series. All their books are available as eBook or paperback except the boxed set and the appendix.