DJ Slater is a Milwaukee native with a love for sharing stories. He wrote his first in third grade followed by several more during his school years, mostly about dinosaurs and an ambitious detective. …
Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead g…
I'm the author of four novels: THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTRESS (2017), HIDDEN PICTURES (2022), THE LAST ONE AT THE WEDDING (2024) and (coming in October 2026!) LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN. For many years I w…
PHILIP FRACASSI is the Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award-nominated author of the novels A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, Boys in the Valley, The Third Rule of Time Travel, and The Autumn Spri…
A book addict from way back, I cut my teeth on fairy tales and C.S. Lewis, skipping class to hang out in the library. Later, I moved on to Tolkein and Twain. During graduate school, I only had time to…
MICHAEL WEHUNT has been a finalist for multiple Shirley Jackson Awards and was shortlisted for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts' Crawford Award. In Spain, his stories have g…
Jennifer Thorne is the British-American author of Lute and Diavola (a USA Today bestseller), published by Tor/Nightfire, and the forthcoming Newbourne Park (Putnam). With Lee Kelly, she is co-author o…
Erin Giannini has wanted to be a writer for longer than she cares to remember. She served as an editor and contributor at PopMatters, and currently writes both fiction and non-fiction, including books…
Veronica Bane spent her formative teen years working at a popular theme park. Following days spent as a princess and an usher, she graduated from Chapman University with a BFA in Creative Writing. Sin…
Alayna Ravenwood writes the kind of character-driven, world-rich stories she’s always loved to fall into. As a franchise fan, she believes the best worlds are the ones that feel boundless—where reader…
Caterina is a storyteller and adventurer. She is passionate about history, music, romance, old languages, legend, and travel. She regularly intertwines these subjects in her writing. While she is a fa…
Lindsay King-Miller won the Colorado Young Authors Award in the second grade with a story that was blatantly ripped off from Goosebumps. Her influences have not changed much, although she’s become mor…
Tiffany Morris is an L’nu’skw (Mi’kmaw) writer from Nova Scotia. She is the author of the swampcore horror novella Green Fuse Burning (Stelliform Books, 2023) and the Elgin-nominated horror poetry col…
Chris lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, daughter, and a fluctuating herd of animals resembling dogs (one is almost certainly a goat). He writes short stories and novels, "plays" the drums, and dr…
Calla Zae is a USA Today Bestselling author of otherworldly romance. She loves delving into fantastical worlds where her imagination can roam wild. Calla is also an artist who enjoys playing with colo…
Isobel was born and raised in London. While she’s a city girl at heart, she loves daydreaming about running away to a charming small town—though she’s not entirely sure her husband and son would share…
Mallory Arnold is an editor and writer who resides in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and three cats. She's part of the Women's Fiction Writer's Association and enjoys writing drama, thrillers, …
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne (Shh-low-tee Bo-Nay) is the Indie and USA Today bestselling author of the horror novels What Feeds Below, The Mean Ones, and Such Lovely Skin. She has an MFA from The Nonfiction …
Cole Winters writes speculative thrillers built on real, checkable history, the kind of book where you stop mid-chapter to check whether something actually happened.
Andrew D. Thompson is a former professional athlete, hospitality industry executive, and high-performance coach who survived a debilitating and life-threatening illness in 2016 that left him bedridden…
V.S. Lawrence grew up in Utah being scared of everything. Now, she puts her fears on paper, writing spooky books that feel like Scooby Doo chase music. When not writing, she can be found buried in a h…
Amy Cip is an author, blogger, people watcher, sci-fi junkie, website novice, eternal optimist, and introvert. She is the author of seven YA science fiction/fantasy/dystopian books. She resides in Mas…
Brigid Barry is a lifelong resident of Maine. A disabled Air Force veteran and blessed parent of twins, she lives on a small hobby farm with her favorite husband and too many animals. "Straw Girl" is …
Dante lives in Georgia with her cat, Doug, who is far more interesting than she is. Dante listens to the voices in her head that do smutty things together and demand to be let out. That's why she writ…
Rikki Goodwin is a horror author and body piercer in North Carolina. She’s on a lifelong quest to recapture the feeling of the sad ghosts descending the stairs in Poltergeist. If that fails, at least …
