Beate and Gwen have three things in common: they both live in Germany, are both bilingual, and both have curls. That much they knew when they started to work on this novel together, but not much more. In the months that followed, they realized that working together is amazing fun, and they hope that you'll feel the same while reading It's Raining Men. Gwen grew up in California and trained as an English teacher for expatriates. She married one of her con-versation students and moved with him to Germany in 1998. Since then, she's been a full-time novelist and screenwriter, with two comedy film