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Sandy MacGregor was born in New Delhi in 1940 and came to Ulverstone, Tasmania when he was eight years old. He graduated from Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1960 then completed his Civil Engineering degree at Sydney University.

He served in the Australian Army for 30 years, finishing as a Colonel in the Reserves. He proudly commanded the Officer Cadet Training Unit and the University of NSW Regiment.

Now Sandy trains people in the public, educational, and corporate sectors and has written five books including the best-selling book Piece of Mind, on how to use the power of the subconscious mind. (See page 271 for a list of books and CDs).

He is the father of six from two families. Three of his daughters were killed tragically in 1987. His eldest son is married with three children and Sandy now lives in Sydney with his wife and two younger children.

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Jimmy Thomson was born in Dumfries, Scotland. He became a journalist in 1978 and worked in Glasgow, London, Kenya and New Zealand. He joined the Sydney Daily Telegraph in 1988 and later held a senior position at Woman's Day.

Jimmy now writes children's books, TV comedies and a weekly magazine column. He co-wrote the positive thinking book Succeed With Me with Selwa Anthony in 1993.

Jimmy is also the Australian bureau chief of the World Entertainment News Network – an international news agency.

He is now working on a number of fiction and non-fiction books and his children's book, The Koala Who Bounced was published in October, 1993. He has a son, Jamie, from his first marriage, and lives with his second wife, Sue, in Sydney.