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A.S. King
A.S. King has been profiled in Writer's Digest magazine and is a member of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).
She was a finalist for the Washington Square fiction ...
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Alissa Grosso
Alissa Grosso (Clinton, NJ) has published short stories in 'zines, Central PA Magazine, and an anthology. She works as a sales consultant for a book distributor and lives with three cats and one high-strung dog. Popular is her first novel.
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Amanda Cockrell
Amanda Cockrell has published critical essays, poems, articles, and books for children and adults. She is the founding director of Hollins University's graduate program in children's literature and managing editor of the university's literary journal. ...
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Amanda Grace
Amanda Grace is a pseudonym for Mandy Hubbard, author of young adult novels Prada & Prejudice and You Wish (Razorbill/Penguin). Visit her at www.amandagracebooks.com. The author resides near Tacoma, Washington. ...
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Amy Carol Reeves
Amy Carol Reeves (Columbia, SC) is a nineteenth-century British literature scholar. She became entranced by the idea for Ripper, her first YA novel, after meeting Donald Rumbelow, a world-recognized expert on Jack the Ripper. She has been published in ...
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Ann Finnin
Ever since escaping from a convent school at fifteen, Ann Finnin's life has been a continuous journey into magic. A Celtic harpist, Renaissance festival enthusiast, and lay historian, Finnin works as a freelance technical writer in the Healthcare ...
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Anne Spollen
Anne Spollen is the mother of three children. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals and have been nominated for Pushcart prizes. The Shape of Water is her first novel for teenagers. It began as a short story in Orchid: ...
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Antony John
Antony John (Seattle) was born in England and raised on a balanced diet of fish and chips, obscure British comedies, and ABBA's greatest hits. In a pique of teenage rebellion, he decided to pursue a career in classical music, culminating in a BA from ...
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Anya Parrish
Anya Parrish was born in Louisiana, grew up in Arkansas, went to school in New York, and found herself in California. She lives in Sonoma County with her family. Damage is her first novel. Visit her online at AnyaParrish.com. ...
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Barbara Haworth-Attard
Barbara Haworth-Attard is a native of Elmira, Ontario, presently residing in London, Ontario, with her family. She has written thirteen novels in the historical fiction, fantasy, and contemporary genres for middle-grade and young-adult readers. ...
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Barbara Shoup
Barbara Shoup is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of novels for teenagers and adults. Shoup has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Master Artist Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission, the National Endowment ...
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Bonnie Dobkin
Bonnie Dobkin grew up in and around Chicago, and now lives in Arlington Heights. She was a frighteningly ordinary and well-behaved child. To compensate, she often tried to escape normalcy through music, acting, and of course, writing. By ...
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Brent Hartinger
Brent Hartinger is the author of eight novels for young adults, including Geography Club (HarperCollins, 2003) and Shadow Walkers (Flux, 2011). His books have been praised by reviewers at top national dailies like USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia ...
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Brian Mandabach
Brian Mandabach teaches writing to teens in Colorado. He has been a public school teacher for over a decade. Or Not is his first novel. ...
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Brian Yansky
Brian Yansky lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, the writer Frances Hill. He is the author of the award winning Young Adult novel My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the World. He has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and ...
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Carrie Jones
Carrie Jones (Maine) holds an MFA from Vermont College’s prestigious Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She is the New York Times bestselling author of NEED and CAPTIVATE. Along with several column, editorial, sports writing and ...
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Charlotte Bennardo
Co-authors Charlotte Bennardo and Natalie Zaman (Bridgewater, NJ) are best friends. Both writers, their respective works have appeared in a variety of national magazines and periodicals. ...
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Christine Hurley Deriso
Christine Hurley Deriso (North Augusta, SC) is an award-winning author of three middle grade novels. She has also contributed to Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, and other national magazines. Visit her online at www.christinehu ...
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Christine Kole MacLean
Christine Kole MacLean (Michigan) is the author of four children’s books including Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms and Mary Margaret, Center Stage. Currently, she owns Content Studio, a writing consultation service that specializes in content ...
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Christy Raedeke
Christy Raedeke is many things, among them an award-winning writer and avid adventurer.
Raedeke's love of mysticism and thirst for ancient knowledge has taken her around the world. She has trekked in the Himalayas, floated down the River ...
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Cole Gibsen
Cole Gibsen (Collinsville, IL) loves writing, day-old Chinese food, and shiny things like ninja throwing stars and swords. Katana is her debut novel. ...
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Crissa-Jean Chappell
Crissa-Jean Chappell (Miami, FL) is the award-winning author of Total Constant Order (Harper Teen). She is a professor of creative writing, and her reviews, short stories, and poems have appeared in many magazines. ...
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Danielle Joseph
Danielle Joseph (Miami, Florida) was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, where she learned to play French horn, guitar, and clarinet. She is the author of YA novel Shrinking Violet. Visit her online at ...
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David Ostow
Illustrator David Ostow (Hoboken, New Jersey) was trained as an architect. He currently works at a large design firm in New York City and also illustrates on a freelance basis. So Punk Rock is his first literary endeavor. Visit David at ...
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Debbie Reed Fischer
Debbie Reed Fischer (Florida) is the author of Braless in Wonderland and was once a cheerleader, though not a very good one. Visit www.DebbieReedFischer.com for more information. ...
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Ed Briant
Ed Briant (Savannah, GA and Portland, MA) is a professional illustrator, writer, and the creator and illustrator of the popular comic strip "Tales from the Slushpile." He has two daughters, teaches illustration, and occasionally practices roundhouse kicks ...
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Emily Wing Smith
Emily Wing Smith (Utah) has been published in writing anthologies and won the David O. McKay essay contest while attending Brigham Young University. Her writing has also appeared in popular magazines for children and young adults. She holds an MFA from ...
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Gillian Summers
Gillian Summers is the pseudonym for co-authors, Berta Platas (Georgia) and Michelle Roper (Georgia), both experienced writers in the romance and fantasy genres, respectively. But more importantly, both are ardent renaissance faire groupies. Visit them ...
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Heath Gibson
Heath Gibson (Atlanta, GA) holds an MFA in Children's Literature from Hollins University and teaches English at a high school in Atlanta. ...
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Heather Duffy Stone
Heather Duffy Stone writes stories and essays that are mostly inspired by high school—either her own or someone else’s. This Is What I Want to Tell You is her first novel. She has lived in Vermont, England, Los Angeles, rural New York and ...
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Holly Schindler
Holly Schindler (Springfield, Missouri) dove headfirst into her writing pursuits after obtaining an M.A. in English from Missouri (ma-zur-ah) State University. Her essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in such journals as The Explicator, ...
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James Klise
James Klise (Chicago, IL) is a high school librarian and adviser for the student literary journal, book club, and the Gay-Straight Alliance. His short stories have appeared in many journals, including StoryQuarterly, New Orleans Review, Ascent, and ...
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Jeremy Craig
Jeremy Craig is a graduate student in the film program at Columbia University in New York City. The Straits is his first novel. ...
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John Donovan
John Donovan was a novelist and a playwright, who also served as the president of the Children's Book Council. I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. was originally published in 1969 and reprinted by Dell in 1973. ...
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John Foley
John Foley is a high school teacher in Washington State. He previously worked as a newspaper reporter in the Chicago suburbs and Alaska, covering sports, cops, features and any other beat that didn't require him to attend sanitary sewer meetings. ...
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Jon Ripslinger
Jon Ripslinger (Davenport, Iowa) is a writer and a former high school English teacher. He was a participant in the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and is the author of several published short stories and two other novels for young adults. ...
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Josie Bloss
Josie Bloss grew up in East Lansing, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. When not mining her high school journals for material, Josie enjoys obsessing over various TV shows, karaoke ...
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Karen Kincy
Karen Kincy (Olympia, WA) studies linguistics and computer science at The Evergreen State College. The setting of her debut novel Other is based on her hometown of Snohomish, WA. Visit her online at www.karenkincy.com. ...
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Karen Mahoney
Karen Mahoney (United Kingdom) has been published in the anthologies The Eternal Kiss and Kiss Me Deadly (both by Running Press). She has a highly trafficked blog and is also part of a group blog that includes New York Times bestselling authors. ...
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Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Kirstin Cronn-Mills is the author of Minnesota Book Award finalist The Sky Always Hears Me And the Hills Don’t Mind and Beautiful Music for Ugly Children. Cronn-Mills received her doctorate degree from Iowa State University and currently teaches in ...
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Laurie Faria Stolarz
Laurie Faria Stolarz (Massachusetts) has a great interest in teen culture, and admires young adults for their passion, energy, and creativity. Blue is for Nightmares is the product of her desire to write a novel that would have appealed to herself at that ...
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Linda Joy Singleton
With plots involving twins, cheerleaders, ghosts, psychics and clones, Linda Joy Singleton has published over 25 midgrade and YA books.
When she's not writing, she enjoys life in the country with a barnyard of animals including horses, cats, dogs and ...
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Lisa Albert
Lisa Albert (Muskego, WI) grew up in the Midwest where she spent many summer afternoons reading at the public library. Albert is the author of three nonfiction books. This is her first book for young adults.
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Lucienne Diver
Lucienne Diver is the author of the popular Vamped series for young adults. Her short stories have been published in anthologies by Baen Books, and she contributed an essay to the Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories anthology from HarperTeen. Diver ...
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Lynn Viehl
Lynn Viehl (Florida) is the New York Times bestselling author of the Darkyn series. She has published over forty novels in five genres and is the host of Paperback Writer, a popular publishing industry blog. ...
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Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater's life decisions have revolved around her inability to be gainfully employed. Talking to yourself, staring into space, and coming to work in your pajamas are frowned upon when you're a waitress, calligraphy instructor, or technical ...
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Margaret Willey
Margaret Willey has published in many genres—picture books, fiction and poetry. She has written six young adult novels, most recently Facing the Music, (Delacorte 1997). In 2002, Clever Beatrice (Atheneum, 2001) won the Charlotte Zolotow ...
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Margie Gelbwasser
Margie Gelbwasser is the author of Inconvenient (Flux, 2010), which was a 2011 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Teens, and Pieces of Us (Flux, 2012). She is a freelance writer who has written for Self, Ladies' Home Journal, and Girl's Life. Gelbwasser ...
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Marilyn Sachs
Marilyn Sachs is the author of more than forty books, including A Pocket Full of Seeds, Lost In America, and First Impressions, and was a National Book Award finalist for The Bears' House. She lives in San Francisco. ...
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Mark Schreiber
Mark Schreiber is the author of several books, including the novel Princes in Exile. He lives and writes in Ohio. ...
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Mary Louise Clifford
Mary Louise Clifford (Williamsburg, Virginia) has written books and articles for young people and adults on a variety of subjects. She has traveled all over the world, including twenty years living in Pakistan, Malaysia, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula, ...
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Maureen Lipinski
Maureen Lipinski is the author of two novels. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband Kevin, son Ryan, two obese cats, and one demented dog. ...
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Medeia Sharif
Medeia Sharif (Miami Beach, FL) is a Kurdish-American author and high school English teacher. She received her master's degree in psychology from Florida Atlantic University. Bestest. Ramadan. Ever. is her debut novel. ...
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Michael Kinch
Michael Kinch (Corvallis, OR) is a freelance writer and the author of Warts, an educational book for middle graders. While working as a science librarian at Oregon State University, he taught a workshop in Malawi, Africa, and The Blending Time, his debut ...
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Micol Ostow
Micol Ostow (New York City) has written more than thirty-five published works for children and young adults. So Punk Rock was inspired by the thirteen years of Jewish day school that she and her brother David experienced. Micol is currently pursuing an ...
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Natalie Zaman
Co-authors Charlotte Bennardo and Natalie Zaman (Bridgewater, NJ) are best friends. Both writers, their respective works have appeared in a variety of national magazines and periodicals. ...
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Nick James
Nick James grew up in the small island town of Anacortes, Washington. He graduated from Western Washington University and currently works as a substitute teacher in Bellingham. Inspired by the big drama and dialogue of comic books and graphic novels by ...
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Nina Wright
An actor turned playwright and novelist, Nina Lanai Wright is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and Florida Writers Association. Her comedy Cherchez Dave Robicheaux has had four ...
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Peter Adam Salomon
Peter Adam Salomon (New Orleans, LA) is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and was a Judge for the 2006 Savannah Children’s Book Festival Young Writers Contest. Henry Franks is his debut novel. ...
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Rebecca Fjelland Davis
Rebecca Fjelland Davis (Good Thunder, MN) is a serious cyclist and the author of Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged (HarperCollins), in addition to many nonfiction children's books. She teaches English and humanities at South Central College in North ...
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Robin Friedman
Robin Friedman (New Jersey) was born in Israel and came to the United States when she was five, living first in New York City adn then in New Jersey. As a child, she wrote tons of stories about talking squirrels and girls with pigtails and sold them to ...
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Ryan Potter
Ryan Potter's (Royal Oak, Michigan) short fiction has appeared in several literary journals. Exit Strategy is his debut novel. To learn more about Ryan Potter, visit www.exitstrategy17.com. ...
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S. J. Adams
S.J. Adams previously worked as the chief of the Smart Aleck Staff, the team that created the acclaimed Smart Aleck's Guide to American History by Adam Selzer. Adams lives in Chicago. Visit the author online at smartalecksguide.com or ...
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S.T. Underdahl
Susan Thompson Underdahl is a North Dakota native who likes to believe she does not have any trace of a Midwestern accent. She once had an eight year friendship with a ghost, and she can occasionally breathe underwater, but not on command. ...
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Sara Beitia
Sara Beitia (Caldwell, ID) has worked as a staff writer and arts editor for the Boise Weekly, an independent alternative newspaper. The Last Good Place of Lily Odilon is her debut YA novel. Visit Sara online at www.sarabeitia.com. ...
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Sara Hantz
Sara Hantz started writing when she ran out of degrees to study and decided it was much more fun to make things up than to comment on dry academics. Born in England, she moved to New Zealand a few years ago. The Second Virginity of Suzy Green is ...
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Sarah Jamila Stevenson
Sarah Jamila Stevenson (Modesto, CA) is a writer, artist, graphic designer, and occasional world traveler. She has written articles for Suite101.com, IGN.com, and San Joaquin Woman magazine, and YA short stories for a zine and an anthology. The Latte ...
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Scott Tracey
Scott Tracey (Avon Lake, OH) lived on a Greyhound bus for a month, wrote his illustrated autobiography at the age of six, and barely survived Catholic school. His gifts can be used for good or evil, and he strives for both for his own amusement. Witch ...
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Simone Elkeles
Simone Elkeles is the author of Leaving Paradise and four other Flux novels, including How to Ruin Your Summer Vacation and How to Ruin Your Boyfriend’s Repuation. She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling Rules of Attraction ...
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Stacey Jay
Stacey Jay (Little Rock, Arkansas) is a workaholic and author of books for young adults. She has four kids, a decidedly sick sense of humor, and loves creepies, crawlies, blood, guts, and of course romance. Visit her online at www.stacey ...
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Stacy DeKeyser
Growing up in Wisconsin, Stacy DeKeyser spent her childhood summers reading at the library. The author of two middle-grade nonfiction books, Stacy has since turned to writing fiction. She received a Work-in-Progress Grant from SCBWI for her first novel, ...
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Stephanie Hale
Stephanie Hale is the author of Revenge of the Homecoming Queen (Berkley Jam, 2007), Twisted Sisters (Berkely Jam, 2008) and Spring Breakup (Berkley Jam, 2009). She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and the Society of Children’s Book ...
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Susan Fine
After many years in New York City, Susan Fine said goodbye to Zabar’s and Grey’s Papaya in search of an affordable apartment. She, her husband, their two young boys, and 10,000 pieces of Lego landed in Chicago, where they love everything ...
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Suzanne Lazear
Suzanne Lazear (Los Angeles) is a regular blogger at the Steampunk group blog, Steamed! She plays with swords, runs with bustles, and is currently trying to make a ray gun to match her ball gown. Innocent Darkness is her YA debut.
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Talia Vance
Talia Vance (Northern California) has worked as a horse trainer, a freelance writer, and an attorney. Her YA novel Spies and Prejudice is being published by Egmont in 2013. ...
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Terie Garrison
Terie Garrison is the author of the YA fantasy series, The DragonSpawn Cycle. She's been an avid writer ever since writing herself a poem for her seventh birthday. By night she fantastic teen fiction, by day she writes user manuals for a software ...
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Terri Clark
Terri Clark (Centennial, CO) is an award-winning YA author who has always had been fascinated with the paranormal. ...
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Timothy Carter
Timothy Carter’s short stories have appeared in several magazines throughout Canada, the United States, and Ireland. He is the author of Epoch and Evil? He patiently awaits the end of the world in Toronto, Canada.
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Tom Pollock
Tom Pollock (London, England) is the author of the short story “Evacuation,” which appeared in the anthology Pandemonium. The City’s Son is his debut novel, the first in a new trilogy that is also being published by U.K. publisher Jo ...
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V. Briceland
Though he has written primarily under his various aliases before now, Vance Briceland is the award-winning author of several adult and young adult novels, including You Are SO Cursed, a 2005 American Library Association Quick Pick ...
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Varian Johnson
Growing up, Varian Johnson couldn't decide whether he wanted to be an engineer or a writer, so he decided to do both. His first novel A Red Polka Dot In A World Full of Plaid made the Essence Magazine bestseller list in March 2006. He lives in Austin, ...
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Veronique Launier
Véronique Launier (Ottawa, Canada) is an avid reader, a dreamer, an Internet addict, and the servant to two little girls and three feline overlords. She loves to dance and studies everything Persian, from the language to the history to the cuisine. ...
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