The author, Dick Sheffield's, expertise is rooted in more than twenty-five years of experience as a working journalist – both with ABC News in New York, where he covers national politics and as the managing editor of a country newspaper in his home state of Texas. The efforts have offered a unique vantage point of the world and produced a writer that learned to report and write a story on deadline.

At Harvard, the author specialized in public policy, but more importantly, learned about the power of ideas, words and good writing. There too, he began a daily journal that he maintains to this day. He has been published in DoubleTake magazine, Texas Monthly magazine, and the Boston Globe, among others. In 1985, he was accepted to and attended the Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, Vermont.

Along with the novel Lasso The Moon, the author has completed a collection of short stories titled White Butterfly and Other Stories. One of those pieces, Maere Tungol, recently won third prize in the Hackney Literary Awards' national story competition.