Kaserman has been a newspaper columnist and served as a teacher, coach, and administrator for thirty-six years in both Ohio and Florida before retiring in 2005.

Sarah Jane (Chenot) Kaserman was an educator for more than thirty-five years and recently retired as a teacher of gifted students in the Lee County School District in Florida. Following graduation from North Canton Hoover High School in North Canton, Ohio, she earned a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and a master's degree in deaf education from Kent State University. A violinist and fiddle player, Sarah Jane arranged music and played fiddle for a Civil War movie, “The Miracle Men.” She also travels the country and plays old-time, folk, and bluegrass music. Sarah Jane and her grandfather's fiddle “Charley” are found at all the Kaserman's presentations about their pirate series.

The two authors have combined their years in education with the vision of writing multi-sensory books. They have written many elementary Accelerated Reader books. They have also written three pirate novels, "Gasparilla Pirate Genius", "The Legend of Gasparilla", "A Tale for All Ages", and, "How the Pirates Saved Christmas." Each of these novels won literary awards and has sold well. Their latest title, "Pirates of Southwest Florida, Fact and Legend", is used in their teaching at the Florida Gulf Coast University's Renaissance Academy.

James and Sarah Jane have been happily married since 1966 and are the parents of two sons, Richard and James, grandparents to James Hunter, Reed Samuel, and Haven Jade. They have lived in Fort Myers, Florida, since moving in 1985 from their native Ohio.

Their first business venture together was the purchasing and restoring of actual railroad passenger cars for businesses, private citizens, and public parks. This business led to their second joint business which was Kaserman's Original Ice Cream Parlor Cars, gay nineties ice cream parlors in actual railroad cars, complete with red and gold flocked wall paper and marble topped ice cream tables and sweetheart chairs.