Dreams of Betrayal: Satellite of Doom - Paperback

Romano, Heidi Bosch: - "Heidi Bosch Romano is an author/illustrator of children's picture books. Over the years, between her upbringing and on-the-job training, she's become well-suited for her chosen field producing high-quality, family-oriented books for children. Growing up with parents who were very talented artists - her mother, a fine artist, and her dad, a technical illustrator - she learned to draw and paint at a very young age. With an eye for art, she also enjoys painting portraits, photographing nature, and creating artistic websites. She learned about storytelling working in the production department at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. At Tratec/McGraw-Hill, she worked her way from a word processing typist to their print production coordinator. Her job involved taking rough manuscripts through the necessary steps in order to produce camera-ready art for professional four-color printing. Heidi's husband Steve R. Romano is an author of science-fiction books. After their grandkids spent the summer with them many years ago, Steve and Heidi were inspired to write children's books to help promote family reading time."Romano, Steve R.: - Steve R. Romano's fascination with science fiction started as a child after watching the premiere episode of Star Trek. In high school, he became a bigger fan after being assigned to read many of the well-known classics in a science fiction English class. Steve's interest in science fiction was further heightened when his sci-fi heroes--Gene Roddenberry, Theodore Sturgeon and Ray Bradbury--spoke at his high school at one of the assemblies. Mr. Roddenberry showed the students a film of Star Trek bloopers, it being a treasure from Gene's private collection, never shown before publicly. Steve's pastime entertaining guests at renaissance festivals as his witty, costumed character "Laktos the Intolerable" inspired the characters in his "Dreams of Betrayal" series. After his friends read several of his amusing stories that were written for their benefit, they encouraged him to take things a step further. He then turned the series of tales into a short novel. After an editor critiqued it and gave him valuable pointers, he was ready to start the long journey ahead that led to Steve finding his passion, being a full-time author. Steve and his wife Heidi decided that there was a need for family-oriented children's books that are not only entertaining, but also teach values. They are currently writing two types of books: children's picture books for the younger kids, and action-adventure stories geared towards older elementary school kids.