John MacIntyre is a journalist, a writer, and an editor. His work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, and Canadian Lawyer, and he writes a syndicated column, “Figuratively Speaking,” which appears in more than 70 newspapers in the United States and Canada. He lives in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Janice Wells is a well-known Newfoundland and Labrador writer, a columnist for the Western Star, and the author of Another Splash of the Gin & Tonic Gardener, Definitely Not Martha Stewart, Frank Moores: The Time of His Life, and The Gin & Tonic Gardener.