More than Jerry Bird's memoir, the book is a biography of the sport during a radical period of evolution. "This book is such an important part of skydiving history," writes Dan Brodsky-Chenfield, world champion skydiver, author and motivational speaker.

Linda Collison's first novel, Star-Crossed, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2006, was chosen by the New York Public Library to be among the Books for the Teen Age - 2007, and inspired the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series. Born in Baltimore, Linda moved to Wyoming when she was twenty-four and had been on the move ever since.