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Tom Perski
<p>Tom Perski has spent over four decades serving the low vision community as a counsellor, advocate, and global educator. Legally blind due to Stargardt macular dystrophy, he brings a uniquely personal and professional perspective to vision care. Tom's work has inspired thousands to navigate vision loss with courage and purpose.</p>
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<p>SL Jarrell was born into a military family and traveled the world as a child. After his father retired from the Army, his family settled in central Ohio. He graduated from there, joined the Air Force after high school, and worked as an avionics technician on F-111s. After leaving the Air Force, he worked as an aircraft electrician at Rockwell on B-1 bombers. In college, he met a supervisor from the LA Air Traffic Control Center who sparked his interest in becoming an air traffic controller, leading to a thirty-year career.</p><p>SL has always been fascinated by aviation. From his first flight in a Huey helicopter with his father to a flight in an airplane with his aunt, the budding pilot looked to the sky. He built and flew RC models until he decided to earn his private pilot's license for airplanes. Several years later, he earned a helicopter license and a flight instructor certificate. He and his friend Kurt bought his first aircraft, a C-150, to get his license; then they bought a Cherokee 235. Many years later, he finally bought his own helicopter: a 1954 Hiller named AVee; the same helicopter as in the story Eagle Wings Lodge.</p>
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H.I. Flood
<p>H.I. Flood lives in Pennsylvania in a small house with a big yard with her small dog, Thor, her big dog, Bowie, and her blind cat, Natasha. She loves her family, friends, tacos, and tattoos. Not always in that order.</p>
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Aden Gerken
<p>In all of my years of writing, I never would have thought that my first published work would be the republishing of another man’s work outside of North America. Snozzdink is a subject that has fascinated me for a while now, and I really look forward to finally sharing it with human audiences much like myself.</p><p>I first came across the famous Snozzdinkian-Beanish writings when I visited Gookyloo in 2023 and went to the Jenkins International Library which was founded in 1795 by Pico Jenkins and Krump Millgs. It was here when I first read of Krump, his friend Hill Williams, and all of the fantastical legends surrounding the island. These tales told of monsters, mythical beings, curses, tragedies, wars, and places that I couldn't even begin to imagine.</p><p>In the past, I had never learned of these things about the Beans at school. I knew that I had to get permission from the families of the authors to republish these books under an American publishing company. This, of course, brought me to the Jenkins and Millgs families (who still own the historical library). After talking with them personally, they seemed to love the idea and agreed to work with me to get the three volumes of The Life and Many Adventures of Krump Millgs as well as many other great works owned by Pico Books published internationally.</p><p>Where the GorgaDale Sleeps is the single earliest tale about Millgs's life. Although not by any means the first mention of the ancient and mythical Book'nihgts in any Snozzdink literature, it was the first to make a big impact after so many years of cultural erasure and persecution. It tells the story of a young Krump and how he once accidentally crossed paths with a Book'nihgt on his way up the Kroakburg mountains one night...</p>
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