E.T. loves roads. Sometimes called Captain Hammock, E. T. “Todd” Ellison is a writer, designer, business consultant, traveler, tinkerer, guitar picker, songwriter, culinary experimenter and general purpose generalist...not necessarily in that order. He is also the proud father of four children, currently has an equal number of grandkids, and owns the doughty Big Red, who has been in the family since 1991. When not otherwise occupied, his favorite recreation is taking 2-wheel sojourns on a venerable Honda Gold Wing that answers to ‘Li’l Red.’

Recipe Rangers in the West is his third literary collaboration with Barbara Montgomery. The hardcover Chronicler’s Edition of his critically acclaimed first novel, The Luck of Madonna 13, was published by Wynderry Press in August 2002. During the 1990s he was a frequent contributor to Acoustic Guitar and Acoustic Musician magazines. The author currently lives with the ghost of a cat named Madonnawanna on a mountainside in California. Whenever possible he travels, rides motorcycles, builds or plants things and plays guitar.

Ranger Todd's personal website (www.etellison.com) contains a wealth of additional personal and professional information.

Known to some as the Berry Princess, Barbara Montgomery is currently a writer, poet, gardener, desktop publisher, creative cook and traveler. She has been a professional manager and has authored how-to manuals for companies like Mobil and California Pizza Kitchen. Currently, she is proprietor of callbarbara.com, which goes a long way to satisfying a lifelong inclination to be helpful to fellow humans.

Barbara grew up in a military family which moved around quite a lot and infected her with a traveling bug for which she has found no cure. She has three children who make her feel very proud (and wonder at the world of the next generation). She gets around, most days, in a prim yet zippy Honda called Grace (short for Amazing Grace).

Ranger Barbara lives on a former ranch outside of Tehachapi, California, and is currently at work on a book of poetry and a novel. With E.T. Ellison, she is also coauthoring a forthcoming Wynderry Press title, Roseberry Hill, which chronicles exurbanite life in a place where all the animals are above average.

RECIPE RANGERS WEBSITE www.reciperangers.org
AUTHOR WEBSITE www.etellison.com