Melanie Howard is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in major magazines including SELF, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Parenting, Seventeen and Family Circle. She is also a former newspaper crime reporter. Melanie is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in comparative literature. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, two children and Rocky the Airedale. Andrea Rider Leidolf is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Virginia. She was the Washington correspondent for Spy magazine and currently works as a reading specialis...