NOELLE AUGUST is an anagram for Veronica Rossi and Lorin Oberweger. Just kidding, it's a pen name!<br/>VERONICA ROSSI is the author of the New York Times Best-selling UNDER THE NEVER SKY trilogy for young adults. The books are available in more than thirty countries and the film rights have been optioned by Warner Bros.<br/>Veronica completed undergraduate studies at UCLA and lives in Northern California with her husband and two sons. She is fond of dresses with pockets, fluffy dogs, and cheese and chocolate -- but not together.<br/>LORIN OBERWEGER began her storytelling career by captivating her first-grade class with tales of her summers on a kibbutz in Israel.<br/>Lorin had never been to Israel.<br/>While teacher/parent night put an end to her first experiments in fiction, she’d already caught the bug and eventually made a career of all things story.<br/>As a long-time independent editor and story development guru, Lorin's client successes range from small press publications to major bestselling novels. She's an award-winning author and has also worked behind the scenes as a ghostwriter on a variety of projects. Her work has received starred Kirkus reviews and glowing mentions in The New York Times.<br/>Oh, she did get to see a kibbutz, eventually, and found out she had it pretty much right all along.<br/>Veronica and Lorin met at a writing workshop and just knew they were destined to create awesome things together.