Tom Connor

Tom Connor is a journalist business writer author and book producer. He attended and failed or was thrown out of Our Lady of Suspicious Conception School Thomas More School and Harvard. As a journalist his work has appeared in the New York Times Los Angeles Times and Town & Country andWriter's Digest among other publications. He currently writes custom business content for FortuneForbes and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. With long-time friend and collaborator Jim Downey he is the co-author and -producer of half a dozen parodies. He lives with his wife Lisa in Fairfield Connecticut.

Jim Downey is a copywriter journalist and author. He has written and produced award-winning human interest pieces for NPR as well as skit-comedy pieces for Comedy Central television. He is the co-author with Tom Connor of the national best-selling parodiesIs Martha Stuart Living? and Martha Stuart's Better Than You at Entertaining amongst others. He currently lives in Olympia Washington where a cup of coffee is seventy five cents and "They've got women lumberjacks!"