Gail Langer Karwoski is the author of The Wedding Heard 'Round the World; America's First Gay Marriage, as well as fourteen books for young readers. Her award-winning juvenile novels include Seaman, the Dog Who Explored the West with Lewis and Clark and Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906. Gail also wrote the acclaimed bedtime story, Waterbeds, Sleeping in the Ocean. When Gail isn't at her keyboard, you can find her painting with watercolors. Or reading cozy mysteries.