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Chris Evans

Best known for: Iron Elves Series

Chris Evans was born in Canada and now lives in New York City. As a military historian he has conducted battlefield tours of Europe, and was the historical consultant on a television documentary on the First World War.  He's earned degrees in English, Political Science, and a Masters in History.  This is his second novel.

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Christopher Bennett

Best known for: Star Trek: Titan: Orion's Hounds, Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows and Star Trek: Ex Machina

Christopher L. Bennett is the author of two previous works of Titan fiction, the novel Star Trek: Titan: Orion's Hounds and the short story "Empathy" in the Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows anthology. He has also authored such critically acclaimed novels as Star Trek: Ex Machina, Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age, and Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum, as well as the alternate Voyager tale Places of Exile in Myriad Universes: Infinity's Prism. Shorter works include Star Trek: SCE #29: Aftermath and Star Trek: Mere Anarchy: The Darkness Drops Again, as well as short stories in the anniversary anthologies Constellations (original series), The Sky's The Limit (TNG), Prophecy and Change (DS9), and Distant Shores (VGR). Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels X-Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder, and is also developing original science fiction novel concepts

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James O'Barr

Best known for: The Crow

James O'Barr is a legendary American graphic artist, best known as the creator of the comic book series The Crow.

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James Swallow

Best known for: Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers, Seeds of Dissent and Star Trek: Myriad Universe: Infinity's Prism

James Swallow has written several books, including Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers and Seeds of Dissent (from Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Infinity's Prism); the Sundowners quartet of ‘steampunk’ science fiction Westerns (Ghost Town, Underworld, Iron Dragon and Showdown); the best-selling novelization of The Butterfly Effect; The Flight of the Eisenstein, Faith and Fire and Jade Dragon; the 2000AD tie-ins Eclipse, Blood Relative and Whiteout; Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon; and the Blood Angels duology Deus Encarmine and Deus Sanguinius.

In addition, Swallow’s short fiction has appeared in Inferno! and Stargate magazine, the anthologies Star Trek Voyager: Distant Shores, the Doctor Who Short Trips collections Dalek Empire and Destination Prague, Something Changed, Collected Works, What Price Victory and Silent Night.

His non-fiction includes Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher and books on writing, genre television and animation; he has also written for Star Trek: Voyager, Doctor Who and Space 1889, along with several scripts for audio and videogames.

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Kathryn Leigh Scott

Best known for: Dark Shadows, House of Dark Shadows and Dark Shadows Memories

Kathryn grew up on a farm in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Upon graduation from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Kathryn landed the ingénue lead in the classic Gothic daytime drama “Dark Shadows”  (ABC, 1966-1971), and starred in the 1971 MGM feature House of Dark Shadows. Kathryn played four roles in the series: Maggie Evans, Josette du Pres, Lady Kitty Hampshire and Rachel Drummond. Realizing that the enduring and innovative series still has a tremendous following in syndicated reruns throughout the world, Kathryn wrote Dark Shadows Memories to coincide with its 20th anniversary and Dark Shadows Companion as a 25th anniversary tribute. Both were book club favorites, and combined sales (hardcover, trade, audio CD) exceed 55,000 copies.  In the 2012 feature to be directed by Tim Burton, Johnny Depp will star in the role of vampire Barnabas Collins,  which was made famous by Jonathan Frid in the groundbreaking cult TV series.

While continuing her acting career, Kathryn launched Pomegranate Press, Ltd. to publish books about the entertainment industry. Along with such non-fiction fare as guide books, biographies, textbooks, humor and coffee table art books, Kathryn published Coya Come Home, the biography of former Minnesota Congresswoman Coya Knutson, which was optioned for a TV movie; Charlie’s Angels Casebook, made into an NBC movie-of-the week in 2004; and Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre, which she co-produced as an American Movie Classics documentary.

Kathryn wrote The Bunny Years (the 25-year history of Playboy Clubs told through the women who worked as Bunnies), optioned by Disney for a feature film. She also co-produced a two-hour special for the A&E Network, and a one-hour documentary for BBC-1 and Canadian TV, based on the book.

Pomegranate has now published over 50 nonfiction titles, including Scott’s books, Lobby Cards: The Classic Films (which earned the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Coffee Table Book) and Lobby Cards: The Classic Comedies, both of which were published in the U.K. by Bloomsbury. Other Pomegranate titles include Michael Landon: Life, Love & Laughter; Following the Comedy Trail, Hollywood Goes on Location and Word of Mouth by Susan Blu, a definitive reference book on the voice-over industry, and numerous books packaged for other publishing companies.

Kathryn’s theatrical credits include a lengthy run with James Stewart in Harvey in London’s West End. Television audiences have seen her in the four hour mini-series Voice of the Heart, based on the Barbara Taylor Bradford novel, as Dan Travanti’s wife in Murrow, George C. Scott’s mistress in The Last Days of Patton and Philip Marlowe’s girlfriend in Chandlertown. She co-starred in several pilot episodes, among them Police Squad, Paradise and Big Shamus, Little Shamus, in which she was a series regular with Brian Dennehy, and The Professionals with Edward Woodward. Feature films include Providence, The Great Gatsby, Brannigan, The Greek Tycoon, Assassination and 187. She appeared in the season finale of  “Huff”  (Showtime, 2006), and Parasomnia (a feature written and directed by William Malone), 2007.

Kathryn maintains homes in Los Angeles, London and New York, and was married to the late Geoff Miller, founding editor and later publisher of Los Angeles Magazine. She is currently in production on a feature documentary, The Star and the Stalker, based on her article published in Opera News.

His non-fiction includes Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher and books on writing, genre television and animation; he has also written for Star Trek: Voyager, Doctor Who and Space 1889, along with several scripts for audio and videogames.

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Nate Kenyon

Best known for: Bloodstone, The Reach and The Bone Factory

Nate Kenyon grew up in a small town in Maine, an avid reader and writer from a very early age. Kenyon’s first novel, Bloodstone, was published by Five Star to critical acclaim, named a Bram Stoker Award finalist in hardcover, winning the P&E Horror Novel of the Year, and becoming one of the publisher’s all time bestselling speculative fiction titles. His second novel, The Reach, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and raves from Booklist, Pop Syndicate, Dark Scribe and many more. The Reach, also a Stoker Award Finalist, was optioned for film. His third novel, The Bone Factory, was called “masterful” by Booklist. His fourth novel Sparrow Rock, was released in May 2010 to critical acclaim, and also optioned for film.

Kenyon’s trade paperback science fiction novella, Prime, was released in July 2009 from Apex Books. He has recently had stories published in Shroud Magazine, Permuted Press’s Monstrous anthology, Horror World, Dead Lines, The Harrow, and Legends of the Mountain State 2, and has many others forthcoming, including a story in The Monster’s Corner, edited by Christopher Golden. Four of his stories were featured in the Dart Arts anthology When the Night Comes Down.

Kenyon’s novel StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, based on the bestselling video game by Blizzard Entertainment, will be released by Pocket Books in September 2011. He is currently working on a Diablo novel for Blizzard and Pocket. Kenyon is also working on a new thriller for Thomas Dunne Books. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers.

Kenyon still lives in the Boston area, and is at work on his next novel.

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Ryan Brown

Best known for: Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless and Play Dead

Ryan Brown, author of the novels THAWED OUT AND FED UP and PLAY DEAD, is also a film and television actor best known for his work on Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless. Raised in Texas, he lives in Manhattan with his wife and son.  His love of classic narratives—the sports story, the western—and his taste for the supernatural come together in his quirky take on genre fiction.

THAWED OUT AND FED UP is the story of Sam Bonham—bad husband, deadbeat dad, and possible criminal on the run from the law.  Sam wanders out of modern-day East Texas into an ersatz Wild West boomtown created for a movie that never happened.  And when Sam strikes a blow against the gangsters who’ve been terrorizing the town, the locals look to him to save them. He’s no hero, but he’s stumbled upon someone who is: John Wayne. But the John Wayne of this story is not the stalwart lawman of Hollywood films—he’s a seventy-two-year-old man who had himself cryogenically frozen.  He’s weak, bald, frail…and unrecognizable to everyone but Sam.

In The Duke’s “defrosted” state, he’s not entirely himself.  In fact, he believes he’s actually Ethan Edwards, the character he played in The Searchers, one of Wayne’s most beloved films. Ethan or Duke or Marion Morrison, at his side Sam learns how to be a man, and a hero—and a pretty good shot! As he takes on the Old West gang of thugs, he finds that he might have become a family man at last. But back in the real world, someone has his eye on Sam’s wife, and if Sam doesn’t get back soon, the results could be devastating.

Both THAWED OUT AND FED UP and PLAY DEAD are available from Gallery Books.

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Scott Westerfeld

Best known for: The Uglies Series, The Midnighters Trilogy and The Last Days

Scott Westerfeld's teen novels include the Uglies series, the Midnighters trilogy, The Last Days, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and the sequel to Peeps. Scott was born in Texas, and alternates summers between Sydney, Australia, and New York City.

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G.D. Falksen

Best known for: The Hellfire Chronicles: Blood In The Skies, An Unfortunate Engagement and Steampunk Magazine

G. D. Falksen is an author, lecturer, public speaker and MC. He also studies history and blogs for Tor.com. While his repertoire spans a range of topics, he is currently most noted for his steampunk work and is one of the most recognizable figures in the steampunk literary genre and the related subculture. His debut novel, The Hellfire Chronicles: Blood In The Skies has just been released, to rave reviews. Other fiction includes The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday, and the serials An Unfortunate Engagement and The Mask of Tezcatlipoca, among others. His work has appeared in Steampunk Tales, Steampunk Magazine, The Chap, Egophobia, and various anthologies such as Footprints and Steampunk Reloaded. He has made appearances as a guest at various events, including Dragon*Con and the World Steam Expo, and has appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Hartford Courant, Marie Claire Italia, BoingBoing.net, Time Out New York, and New York Magazine. He has also appeared on MTV, NHK, VBS.tv, Space, and io9.com. He is the lead writer for AIR, a steampunk-themed video game currently in development from Hatboy Studios, Inc. If you wish to know more please visit his web site http://www.gdfalksen.com/

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Bob Fingerman

Best known for: Pariah, Beg the Question and White Like She

BOB FINGERMAN is a twenty-year veteran of the comic book field. His prose and graphic novels include the critically acclaimed Pariah, Beg the Question and White Like She. Other books include the recently released humor collection You Deserved It and Zombie World: Winter's Dregs and Other Stories (both Dark Horse Books), to which Fingerman contributed the title tale.  Recent releases include Recess Pieces, a humor/horror zombie yarn set in a public school (Dark Horse Books, August 2006), and his debut prose novel, Bottomfeeder (M Press, January 2007). His newest novel Pariah released in trade paperback last summer. He lives in New York City.

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Brandon Sanderson

Best known for: The Way of Kings, The Stormlight Archive and The Mistborn Trilogy

I'm Brandon Sanderson, and I write epic fantasy novels for Tor Books. The sixth novel I wrote, ELANTRIS, was my first published, and I followed this up with the Mistborn trilogy and WARBREAKER. I was also chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series based on his notes, resulting in THE GATHERING STORM, TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT, and A MEMORY OF LIGHT. I'm now launching my own grand epic that I've wanted to tell for many years, starting with THE WAY OF KINGS on August 31, 2010.

Read an excerpt here: http://tor.com/wok

More sample chapters from all of my books are available at http://brandonsanderson.com/library -- and check out the rest of my site for chapter-by-chapter annotations, deleted scenes, and more.

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Edward Lazellari

Best known for: The Date

EDWARD LAZELLARI has worked as an illustrator and graphic artist, doing projects for Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, and Jim Henson Productions. His short story, “The Date,” won Playboy magazine’s prestigious college fiction contest in 1999. Lazellari lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. Awakenings is his first novel.

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Patricia Briggs

Best known for: On the Prowl and Alpha and Omega

PATRICIA BRIGGS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series, lives in Washington State with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses. She has written 17 novels to date. Briggs also writes the Alpha and Omega series, which are set in the same world as the Mercy Thompson novels. What began as the novella “Alpha and Omega” in an anthology called On the Prowl (Ace 2007), was then expanded into a full new series. A third book of the Alpha and Omega series is scheduled for February 2012 to be released in hardcover.

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Christina Henry

Best known for: Black Wings

CHRISTINA HENRY is the author of the Black Wings series and enjoys running long distances, reading anything she can get her hands on and watching movies with subtitles in her spare time. Henry used to work in a comic book store and as a result, has boxes of bagged and boarded comics in her attic. She lives in Chicago with her husband and son, and can be found on the web at www.christinahenry.net.

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Philippa Ballantine

Best known for: Books of the Order, Geist and Spectyr

PHILIPPA BALLANTINE is the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series with Tee Morris. As a solo author, Philippa wrote the Books of the Order series with Ace; Geist (2010), Spectyr (June 2011). She also has the Shifted World series with Pyr Books, with the first book Hunter and Fox coming in 2012. Philippa is a trained librarian and is owned by two huge Siberian cats that may resemble one of her book covers.

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Rachel Caine

Best known for: Morganville

RACHEL CAINE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Morganville Vampires, Weather Warden, and Outcast Season novels, among many others. She grew up in the badlands outside of El Paso, Texas. General Sheridan famously said, "If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell." Rachel's trying her best, with the Morganville series, to prove him right. (But still, she does lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Not Hell.)

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Thomas Sniegoski

Best known for: The Fallen and Bone Trilogy

THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI is a New York Times best-selling author of books and comics for children, young adults and adults.  He is the writer of the New York Times best-selling The Fallen: Vol. 1 & 2, as well as the popular urban fantasy books featuring angel turned private investigator, Remy Chandler.  He is also the only writer ever invited to work on Jeff Smith's international, award winning series Bone, working with Smith on Bone: Tall Tales.  Sniegoski is currently writing an original Bone trilogy, Bone: Quest for the Spark, for Scholastic Books, and a new addition to The Fallen series, The Fallen: End of Days.

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Stefan Petrucha

Best known for: author

STEFAN PETRUCHA: Born in the Bronx, Stefan Petrucha spent his formative years moving between the big city and the suburbs, both of which made him prefer escapism.  A fan of comic books, science fiction and horror since learning to read, in high school and college he added a love for all sorts of literary work, eventually learning that the very best fiction always brings you back to reality, so, really, there's no way out.   You can read more about him at www.petrucha.com

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Nancy Holzner

Best known for: Deadtown

NANCY HOLZNER is the author of the Deadtown urban fantasy series featuring shapeshifter Victory Vaughn. After beginning her career as a medievalist, Nancy has worked as a high school teacher, corporate trainer, freelance editor, and technology writer. She lives in New York's Finger Lakes region with her husband, Steve.

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Myke Cole

Best known for: author

Before penning his debut novel Shadow Ops: Control Point (due out this February), MYKE COLE worked as a secu­rity con­tractor, gov­ern­ment civilian and mil­i­tary officer, so his career has run the gamut from Coun­tert­er­rorism to Cyber War­fare to Fed­eral Law Enforce­ment. He's done three tours in Iraq and was recalled to serve during the Deep­water Horizon oil spill. All that con­flict can wear a guy out so to blow off steam he turns to fan­tasy novels, comic books, late night games of Dun­geons and Dragons and lots of angst fueled writing. Visit him online at: mykecole.com/

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Anton Strout

Best known for: Simon Canderous, Alchemystic and Spellmason Chronicles

ANTON STROUT was born in the Berkshire Hills mere miles from writing heavyweights Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville and currently lives in the haunted corn maze that is New Jersey. He is the author of the Simon Canderous urban fantasy series andAlchemystic, book one of the upcoming Spellmason Chroniclesfor Ace Books. In his scant spare time, his is a writer, a sometimes actor, sometimes musician, occasional RPG-er, and the worlds most casual and controller smashing video gamer. 

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Jack Campbell

Best known for: Lost Fleet

JACK CAMPBELL is a New York Times bestselling author of military science-fiction who draws on his experiences as a retired US Navy officer. His newest Lost Fleet series is now being published in hardcover by Ace Books. He lives in Maryland with his wife and three great kids.

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Taylor Anderson

Best known for: author

TAYLOR ANDERSON is a gun-maker and forensic ballistic archaeologist who has been a technical and dialogue consultant for movies and documentaries. He is also a member of the National Historical Honor Society and of the United States Field Artillery Association, which awarded him the Honorable Order of St. Barbara. He has a master's degree in history and teaches in Stephenville, Texas, when his time allows. He lives in nearby Granbury with his family. Visit him online at www.taylorandersonauthor.com

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Marjorie Liu

Best known for: author

MARJORIE LIU is an attorney and the bestselling author of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, as well as comic books for Marvel. She is, occasionally, commandeered by poodles—and highly opinionated cats—and divides her time between the American Midwest, and Beijing/Shanghai, China.

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Drew Magary

Best known for: Deadspin and Kissing Suzy Kolber

DREW MAGARY is a writer for Deadspin, NBC, Maxim, GQ, and Kissing Suzy Kolber.  He's also written for NPR, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, ESPN, Yahoo, Comedy Central, Playboy, and more. He is also the author a novel published by Penguin entitled, The Postmortal.

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Jeaniene Frost

Best known for: Night Huntress

Jeaniene Frost is the internationally bestselling author of the award-winning Night Huntress series and the Night Huntress World novels. To date, foreign rights for her novels have sold to seventeen different countries. Jeaniene lives in North Carolina with her husband Matthew, who long ago accepted that she swears like a sailor, rarely cooks, and always sleeps in on the weekends. Aside from writing, Jeaniene enjoys reading, poetry, watching movies with her husband, exploring old cemeteries, spelunking and traveling – by car. Airplanes, children, and cookbooks frighten her.

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David Chandler

Best known for: Marvel Zombies Return

David Chandler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1971. He attended Penn State and received there an MFA in creative writing. He works as an archivist for the United Nations in New York City. In his alter-ego as David Wellington, he writes critically-acclaimed and popular horror novels, and was one of the co-authors of the New York Times bestseller Marvel Zombies Return.

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Kim Harrison

Best known for: Dead Witch Walking, The Good, The Bad, and The Undead and Every Which Way But Dead

New York Times bestselling Kim Harrison was born and raised in the upper Midwest, but has since fled south to better avoid snow. After gaining her bachelors in the sciences, she moved to South Carolina, where she has remained since. When not at work in the Hollows series, she spends her time tending orchids, cooking with some guy in leather, and training her new dog. Her current vices include good chocolate, and exquisite sushi. She is a member of both the Romance Writers of America and The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her bestselling novels include Dead Witch Walking; The Good, The Bad, and The Undead; Every Which Way But Dead; A Fistful of Charms; and For a Few Demons More.

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Nils Johnson-Shelton

Best known for: no angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels and Otherworld Chronicles: The Invisible Tower

Nils Johnson-Shelton is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller no angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels. otherworld chronicles: the invisible tower is his first book for younger readers. Nils lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family.

photo credit: Bonnie Johnson

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Rae Carson

Best known for: The Girl of Fire and Thorns

Rae Carson dabbled in many things, from teaching to corporate sales to customer service to architecture, before becoming a full-time writer. The Girl of Fire and Thorns is her first novel. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and two stepsons. www.raecarson.com.

photo credit: Michelle Daniel

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Sabrina Benulis

Best known for: ARCHON

Sabrina Benulis graduated with a Masters in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She currently resides in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania with her husband Mike, and her spoiled cockatiel Caesar. ARCHON is her first novel.

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Tahereh Mafi

Best known for: SHATTER ME

Twenty-three year old Tahereh Mafi is a recent college graduate, and she lives outside of Los Angeles, California. SHATTER ME is her first novel. You can visit her online at www.taherehmafi.com or follow her on Twitter (@TaherehMafi).

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Tee Morris

Best known for: MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe & Askana, and

While Tee Morris began his writing career with Dragon Moon Press' 2002 historical epic fantasy, MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe & Askana, it is his podcast of that book and works like Podcasting for Dummies and All a Twitter where people know him best: one of the pioneers of Social Media. With Phoenix Rising, Tee returns to where he prefers to be: in his imagination. When he is not there, Tee lives in the Washington D.C. area with his five cats and one daughter, all of whom have him very well-trained.

Pay a visit to Pip and Tee's Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences at http://ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com

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Veronica Rossi

Best known for: UNDER THE NEVER SKY, and

Veronica Rossi was born in Rio and now lives in Northern California with her husband and two sons. She attended UCLA and studied fine art at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Having created vivid, sweeping oil paintings, Veronica's new canvas is fiction for teens. Enthusiastically embraced by readers, UNDER THE NEVER SKY has already sold to 23 countries and has been optioned for film by Warner Brothers. You can visit Veronica at www.veronicarossi.com.

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Peter V Brett

Best known for: The Warded Man, The Desert Spear and Red Sonja: Blue

Peter V. Brett is the internationally bestselling fantasy author of The Warded Man and The Desert Spear. He is also the author of Red Sonja: Blue for Dynamite Comics. Raised on a steady diet of fantasy novels, comic books, and Dungeons & Dragons, Brett has been writing fantasy stories for as long as he can remember. He received a bachelor of arts degree in English literature and art history from the University at Buffalo in 1995, and then squandered a decade in pharmaceutical publishing before returning to his bliss. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Lia Habel

Best known for: Dearly, Departed and Dearly, Beloved

LIA HABEL is the author of Dearly, Departed.  She lives in western New York State and was unemployed when she set pen to paper.  She started writing Dearly, Departed as inexpensive entertainment for herself and her friends.  They encouraged her to find an agent, and eventually the book sold in a heated auction.  She is at work on her next novel, Dearly, Beloved.  Habel can be found on Facebook and Twitter, and she has a blog at www.liahabel.com.

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Drew Karpyshyn

Best known for: Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction and Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two

Drew Karpyshyn is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two, and Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil. He also wrote the acclaimed Mass Effect series of novels and is an award-winning writer/designer of videogames for BioWare. After spending most of his life in Canada, he finally grew tired of the long, cold winters and headed south in search of a climate more conducive to year-round golf. He now lives in Texas.

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C.E. Murphy

Best known for: The Walker Papers, The Negotiator and The Inheritors

C.E. Murphy is the author of three wildly successful urban fantasy miniseries: The Walker Papers, the Negotiator, and The Inheritors. This, however, is not enough to keep a good woman down, and she also writes a monthly comic book entitled Take a chance. Excerpts, comic pages and witty repartee with the author are all available at www.CEMurphy.net. She lives in Ireland with her husband and their cats, and sometimes remembers to practice the tin whistle.

Look for the next installment in her popular Walker Papers miniseries, Raven Calls, coming in April 2012.

C.E. Murphy will be signing books at the Harlequin booth (2021) on Saturday from 11am-12pm.

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Julie Kagawa

Best known for: The Iron King, The Iron Daughter and The Iron Queen

Julie Kagawa is the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Fey series, which includes The Iron King, The Iron Daughter, and The Iron Queen. She was born in Sacramento, California. To pay the rent, Julie worked in different bookstores over the years, but discovered the managers frowned upon her reading the books she was supposed to be shelving. So she turned to her other passion: training animals. She worked as a professional dog-trainer for several years, dodging Chihuahua bites and overly enthusiastic Labradors, until her first book sold and she stopped training to write full-time.

Julie now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where the frequency of shark attacks are at an all time low. She lives with her husband, two obnoxious cats, one Australian Shepherd, and a hyper-active Papillon.

Look for the fourth installment of The Iron Fey series, The Iron Knight, releasing on October 25, 2011.

Julie will be signing books at the Harlequin booth (2021) on Saturday from 2-4pm.

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Melanie Nowak

Best known for: ALMOST HUMAN and DESCENDANT OF DARKNESS

Melanie Nowak is author of the venomous vampire series ALMOST HUMAN. She lives in New York with her husband, their two young sons and their pet Doberman. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education and a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science.

She began writing as self-entertainment, and was pleasantly surprised to find that others soon became as caught up in the emotional lives of her characters as she was. ALMOST HUMAN now enjoys a growing cult following, as she spins out her projected 12 books for the series. DESCENDANT OF DARKNESS, the 5th book of the series, is due out in December 2011.

Learn more about this paranormal romantic urban fantasy series at the author's website, where sample chapters can be read, and members are encouraged to discuss the series with each other and the author.

http://www.MelanieNowak.com

Melanie Nowak will be signing books at Autographing Table 8 on Sunday from 2:30 – 3:30

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David Mack

Best known for: Wildfire, Harbinger and Reap the Whirlwind

David Mack is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including Wildfire, Harbinger, Reap the Whirlwind, Road of Bones, and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy — Gods of Night, Mere Mortals, and Lost Souls. His first original novel, the supernatural thriller The Calling, debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack's diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. Recent novels include The 4400: Promises Broken, Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice, and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale The Sorrows of Empire. Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City.

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Tim Carvell

Best known for: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Fortune and Sports Illustrated

Tim Carvell is the head writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, for which he has won four Emmys. He has also served as a writer and editor at Fortune, Sports Illustrated/Women, and Entertainment Weekly; his work has also appeared in New York, The New York Times, Esquire, Slate and McSweeney's, the Daily Show books America: The Book and Earth: The Book, and the anthologies More Mirth of a Nation, Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans and The McSweeney's Joke Book of Joke Books. He lives in New York with his partner, Tom Keeton.

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Ryan Buell

Best known for: Paranormal State, Timetripper and The Shadow of Frankenstein

Ryan Buell is the host and Co-Executive Producer of A&E's hit show PARANORMAL STATE, which follows the paranormal investigation group he founded in 2001. He is also a freelance journalist and hikes with his dog, Xander. He lives in State College, PA. Fans can connect with him at his official website, www.ryanbuell.net  Born in the Bronx, Stefan Petrucha spent his formative years moving between the big city and the suburbs, both of which made him prefer escapism. A fan of comic books, science fiction and horror since learning to read, in high school and college he added a love for all sorts of literary work, eventually learning that the very best fiction always brings you back to reality, so, really, there's no way out. He first came to prominence as the author of the best-selling X-Files comic book series, based on the TV show and has since written eighteen novels including Timetripper, The Shadow of Frankenstein, and The Rule of Won. His recent work includes, Paranormal State: My Journey Into the Unknown (co-authored with A&E star Ryan Buell), Split, Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid, and the upcoming Dead Mann Walking. He currently lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and fellow writer Sarah Kinney and their two daughters.

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Larry Doyle

Best known for: The Simpsons, The New Yorker and I Love You, Beth Cooper

Larry Doyle, a former writer for The Simpsons, works in showbiz and writes funny things for The New Yorker. He is the author of I Love You, Beth Cooper, which won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor and was made into a motion picture.

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Leslie Simon

Best known for: Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide To Your Favorite Music Scences, Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture and

Leslie Simon lives in Los Angeles, isn't a fan of hot weather, and loves her parents, Gilmore Girls, and French bulldog puppies. She's the author of Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide To Your Favorite Music Scenes and coauthor of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. She is currently the Senior Creative Director at Warner Bros. Records.