ABOUT THE AUTHORS
BIC MEDIA SOLUTIONS (BMS) connects investors, filmmakers and publishers to help fund, co-produce, and market inspirational and faith/family-friendly media (including films, documentaries, television, books, and events.) BMS is the publisher of Rock Bottom and Back™ and other inspirational books.
Earl B. Heard is the founder and CEO of Business and Industry Communications (BIC) Alliance, which includes BIC Media Solutions (BMS) — a custom publishing, event planning, and media investment company. He is also the publisher of BIC Magazine, the Western Hemisphere’s largest multi-industry energy publication. In addition to Rock Bottom and Back, Earl has published six books through BMS: It’s What We Do Together That Counts, Energy Entrepreneurs, Industry Achievers, Earl’s Pearls, Michael Learns to Listen, and Louisiana Sports Legends and Heroes— Leaving A Legacy. In 2014, BMS expanded its media investments into coproducing and marketing inspirational, faith-based films, including A Gift Horse (2015), starring John Schneider; and developing the Rock Bottom and Back television series (2016).
Susan Mustafa is an award-winning journalist and coauthor of the New York Times Best Seller, The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching For My Father and Finding the Zodiac Killer, written with Gary L. Stewart. She also coauthored Dismembered, the true story of serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis, written with Sue Israel; and Blood Bath about the life and crimes of serial killer Derrick Todd Lee, written with Special Prosecutor Tony Clayton and Sue Israel. Susan has been featured on numerous television programs aired on Discovery, Investigation Discovery, Discovery Canada, Lifetime, and National Geographic.