In no particular order, LM (Lorene) Shyba PhD has been an entertainment impresario, magazine and book publisher, advertising art director, TV talent, digital art curator, university professor, and rancher, among other things. She was the innovator of the interactive performance piece Spies in the Oilsands and the serious videogame The Pipeline Pinball Energy Thrill Ride Game, which, together with her dissertation, won the J.B. Hyne Research Innovation Award from University of Calgary. Along with CD Evans, she penned the controversial novel 5000 Dead Ducks: Lust and Revolution in the Oilsands, upon which the Ducks Redux novel is based.

Christopher D. Evans QC practiced criminal law in Canada for fifty years and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He was a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1978. Evans’ published titles include Milt Harradence: The Western Flair; A Painful Duty: Forty Years at the Criminal Bar; and Less Painful Duties: Reflections of the Revolution in the Legal Profession. Along with LM Shyba, he penned the controversial novel 5000 Dead Ducks: Lust and Revolution in the Oilsands, upon which Ducks Redux novel is based.