Richard Hughes graduated from Mass. Maritime Academy with a B.S. in Marine Transportation, then obtained an MBA in Business from Lesley University. He operated a safety training center on Cape Cod with his wife and fellow author Lavinia M. Hughes. His books include Bringing Down the Safety Guy, SeaBlameworthiness, Deep Sea Decisions, and the Cape Safety, Inc. - Danger Dogs Series—a collection of novels detailing the exciting lives of a top-notch safety consulting firm based in Woods Hole, MA.

Lavinia M. Hughes, with an A.S.Degree from Massasoit Community College, is the author of Enter Through the Crawlspace—a collection of paranormal short stories, and An iGen Cookbook for the Unskilled, an instructional cookbook. Her Enter Through the Bulkhead treats the reader to a new set of paranormal short stories.

The couple has also co-authored Training Ship. They live and write in their home in the seaside village of Waquoit, MA.