About the Author(s)
Over the years Paul restored many VWs and Porsches, as his fascination with air-cooled engines grew. Meanwhile, he earned degrees in business administration and psychology, and worked as sales and marketing manager for several Cincinnati-area companies. In the late 1980s he tested his entrepreneurial skills on the side with a successful boat rental business on the Ohio River. Yet it was his passion for cars that prevailed. Through his business and social contacts, he’d heard many peoples’ anecdotes about their VWs. Encouraged by the volume and variety of those anecdotes — not to mention the depth of affection for VWs that the storytellers exhibited — he embarked upon "Bug Tales." He has contributed articles to numerous Volkswagen and Porsche publications such as King Pin, Bent Pylon and Zundfolge, and been interviewed by numerous national print and broadcast journalists about Beetles old and new. Paul will forever be dedicated to the VW Scene.

Gabriella Jacobs has been a professional writer and editor for over 20 years. Her career began as a high school correspondent for her hometown daily newspaper, and continued as she was hired for an on-going internship. She worked there as a reporter covering a wide range of hard news and feature stories while earning a degree in mass communication, tuition money for that degree, and the downpayment on a robin’s-egg-blue VW. She is currently the editor of a national engineering organization’s technical journal and communications specialist for the organization’s many projects. Her VW was retired in the early 1980s, when a mechanic declared that she had "driven the life out of it."
WEBSITE: www.bugtales.com