Darcy Simpson lives in Derbyshire with her husband, two daughters and a cupboard full of little beans. She's dabbled in creative writing for some time and remembers, aged 9, announcing to her bemused violin teacher 'Look out for my books...I'm going to be an author.' Well, you can stop looking now, Mr Rose!

Simon Panrucker lives in Cambridgeshire where he gets up to all sorts of adventures. It's not the first time Simon has worked with beans; he made a flash thing called Screamin' Beans for a university project with little animated baked beans in it. You can find that and more on his website: www.simonpanrucker.com