"Barb Dwyer" is a published author using a pseudonym, because she doesn't want to ruin her reputation as a serious writer by being associated with this fluffy book of madness.She describes herself as a "Virtual love-child of Douglas Adams, Nora Roberts, Terry Pratchett and Jane Austen, though unacknowledged due to implausible genetic mutations.""When I read, I want to laugh and feel good."