Connie Disney (pictured here with grandson Gabrael) was born in Oregon, where her parents had a farm behind the Tillamook cheese factory. Later they relocated to California's Central Valley. She attended the Church College of Hawaii and BYU where she studied art "and unfortunately never set foot inside a science class." One summer was spent working on Mission Street in San Francisco for BART, "back when it was still a twinkle in its creator's eye," and ("sigh!") selling Berkeley Barbs on weekends. She is the former art director for Sunstone magazine and is currently the production manager at Signature Books. She says she has "always loved books, especially how they look and feel in your hand and how they work ... though some of ours look and feel better than others." She art directs the Mormon Women's Forum quarterly newsletter and spends weekends watercoloring with friends or having them over for a platter of steamed mussels and a bottle of Perrier. "When I grow up," she says, "I want to be a blues musician." She also likes traveling to Italy with her "husband and sweetheart" John Keahey, author of Venice against the Sea: A City Besieged. She says her heroes are her children Noel, Emmaly, and Sol, and grandchildren Gabe and Xana. Her "favorite bumper sticker" is: "My Karma Will Run Over Your Dogma."

Greg Jones was born and raised in Provo where he spent much of his free time in the mountains, camping in the summer and skiing during the winter. Despite his Provo roots and "fondness for Primary hymns," he attended the University of Utah and other community schools "instead of BYU." After school he and a partner bought and remodeled properties and found they were successful at this "hobby." His "other pasttimes" include audio electronics and home theater, taking care of his convertible, and traveling with friends. He and his partner live in Greg's "dream house" on Capitol Hill. You can see him there any Saturday in the flower garden, trying to squeeze in "just one more clematis." He says his garden is "the envy of all the Sisters in the ward!" He has been at Signature Books for twelve years now, where he oversees the warehouse and order fulfillment. His favorite musical artists are "Sarah McLachlan, Pink Floyd, Ben Harper, Elton John, ... and even some Nine Inch Nails once in a while," and his favorite reading is fantasy and gardening. What is an ideal weekend for him? "Heading out on a road trip with the top down, the person you love, great music, a tent in the trunk, and a cooler full of drinks."

Tom Kimball was born in Salt Lake City but raised in the blue-collar neighborhoods of West Valley. He entered the child labor force at age 13, riding his bicycle across town to work at a print shop. Having acquired "a taste for money," he moved on to ever bigger and better jobs as a pizza delivery guy, a bellhop at the Salt Lake Hilton, and a producer of his brother's community talk radio show. After an LDS mission to Birmingham, Alabama, he returned to the East to live in Fairfax, Virginia, to work for the federal government's Security Protective Service just outside of Washington, D.C. It was in Virginia that he met his wife, Page. Next came the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia and a tour of duty in the Persian Gulf. Shortly after the first Gulf War, he took a related job with Rockwell International in Australia, where Tom's and Page's first two children were born in the outback town of Alice Springs. They "returned" to their ancestral roots in Utah so that Tom could indulge his fantasy of working at a book store. He applied for temporary Christmas employment at Deseret Book in downtown Salt Lake City, but in short order was promoted to lead supervisor of Deseret's Cottonwood Mall store. Later he was wooed away to Benchmark Books to be their rare book buyer. Tom is now the marketing director for Signature Books, the book review editor for the Journal of Mormon History and a Scout leader for the eleven-year-olds in his ward. In 2006, Tom produced a limited printing of Owning God: A Short Study of Mormon Book Collecting which quickly went out-of-print and currently enjoys the status of a well sought after, hard-to-find, bibliographic curio. Page went on to graduate with honors from Utah Valley University in Nursing. Page and Tom have the good forune to live in American Fork, with their five children, (a small Mormon family) which include their youngest, twin girls.

Jani Fleet was born back east where she attended parochial school before moving out west for college. She financed her university studies with a job in the campus library, along with other part-time positions. She graduated with a degree in psychology—only to turn around and work at a publishing company. (Perhaps her love of books from early childhood on was a hint of what awaited her. And believe it or not, that psych degree does have application in the world of publishing, especially at Signature Books!) She has been at Signature for over fifteen years. In that time she has become legendary for a keen eye in proofing manuscripts (okay, some authors would characterize this as a VERY picky approach, but nothing escapes her notice) and for her grasp of grammar and style. She is also famous for her knowledge of popular culture with an emphasis on science fiction, especially Star Trek, having once won a trivia contest at the Las Vegas Hilton's Star Trek: The Experience. She loves dogs (pictured here in front of Signature Books with Sheba, the above-mentioned goofy German shepherd, and Pebbles, the above-mentioned intelligent Australian shepherd [see Keiko Jones]). Jani has trekkie friends around the world in South America, Europe, Canada, and the United States, and sees them at sci-fi conventions both here and abroad. Her innate love of travel and appreciation for other cultures have grown through attending these conventions.