Nan McCarthy is the author of the Since You Went Away series, Chat, Connect, & Crash, Live 'Til I Die, and Quark Design. A former magazine editor and tech-industry writer, Nan founded Rainwater Press in 1992 and began selling her books online in 1995. The originally self-published Chat, Connect, & Crash series was acquired by Simon & Schuster in 1998. Nan regained the rights to the series and released new editions under the Rainwater Press imprint in 2014. She began writing the Since You Went Away series in 2012, after taking a ten-year break from full-time writing to care for the family during her husband's frequent military travels. Nan and her husband, a veteran who served 29 years in the Marine Corps, are the proud parents of two adult sons. You can read more about Nan at her website, www.nan-mccarthy.com.