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Tessa Gratton is the New York Times Bestselling author of adult and YA SFF novels and short stories that have been translated into twenty-two languages, nominated twice for the Otherwise Award, and several have been Junior Library Guild Selections. Her most recent novels are the dark queer fairy tales Strange Grace and Night Shine, and the queer Shakespeare retelling Lady Hotspur. Her upcoming work includes The Mercy Makers (Orbit 2025), and novels of Star Wars: The High Republic. Though she has lived all over the world, she currently resides at the edge of the Kansas prairie with her wife. Queer, nonbinary, she/he/they. |
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Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of Amy Vincent. She is the author of the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, including The Murder of Mr. Wickham, The Late Mrs. Willoughby, and The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, as well as the writer of multiple young adult novels, including the Evernight series, the Firebird trilogy and the Constellation trilogy. In addition, she’s written several Star Wars novels, such as Lost Stars and Bloodline. She makes her home in New Orleans with her husband Paul and assorted small dogs. |
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Joe Hart is the Edgar Award winning and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Last Girl, Or Else, and Where They Lie. He lives in northern Minnesota with his family. |
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Amanda Helander (pronounced “HELL-ander”) is a romantic fantasy author and paralegal from Seattle, Washington. She likes to write about mental health struggles and hot wizard boyfriends. When she’s not writing, Amanda can be found watching horror movies, learning to crochet, or eating entire blocks of parmesan in one sitting. |
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June CL Tan is the critically acclaimed and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Darker By Four duology and Jade Fire Gold. Her Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection books have garnered multiple starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and BCCB, and she was also one of PW’s Flying Starts in 2021. A Singaporean raised on a diet of teh tarik, classic books, and wuxia movies, she enjoys telling stories that draw on both the traditional and modern to create something fresh to the eye, but familiar to the heart. |
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April Genevieve Tucholke
www.apriltucholke.com |
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April Genevieve Tucholke is the bestselling author of several books, including Rebecca the White House Raccoon, The Secret Life of Hidden Places, Merry and Hark: A Christmas Story, Beatrice Likes the Dark, and The Boneless Mercies. She was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and her acclaimed, award-winning books have been published in sixteen countries and have received ten starred reviews. April Genevieve has lived all over the world, from Portland, Oregon to Edinburgh, Scotland. She currently lives in Savannah, Georgia. |
