About Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, four-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-Wars, became a Netflix original series. He writes horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, thrillers, and more. He is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of Weird Tales magazine.
About Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon is a New York Times bestselling writer from South Wales. He’s had over forty novels published to date, as well as hundreds of novellas and short stories. Recent novels include thrillers The Hunt and The Family Man, as well as The Silence, Relics, The Folded Land, and the Rage War trilogy of Alien/Predator novels. He has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Scribe Award, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, International Horror Guild, and Shirley Jackson Awards. His work has appeared in numerous “Year’s Best” anthologies.
About Peter Clines
Peter Clines is the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Room, Paradox Bound, several books set in the Threshold universe, and the Ex-Heroes series. He grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and—inspired by comic books, Star Wars, and Saturday morning cartoons—began writing horrible X-Men and Boba Fett stories at an early age. Clines lives in southern California. Visit his website at www.PeterClines.com.
About Aaron Rosenberg
Aaron Rosenberg is a novelist and game designer living in New York City. He has also taught college-level English and worked in corporate graphics and book publishing. Rosenberg has written novels for a number of series, including Star Trek, Starcraft, Warcraft, Exalted, and Warhammer. He also writes educational books, children's books, and role-playing games.
About Paul Crilley
Paul Crilley has several books out from Wizards of the Coast/Mirrorstone, including Night of the Long Shadows, Book 1 of the Abraxis Wren Chronicles, which recently won the SCRIBE award for best gaming-related original novel, and its two sequels (due out in 2009 and 2010). His work has been featured in over a dozen anthologies. He is Scottish and currently lives in South Africa. You can visit him at www.paulcrilley.com.
About Stefan Petrucha
Stefan Petrucha is an American writer of comics and young adult fiction. He has written graphic novels in the The X-Files and Nancy Drew series, as well as science fiction and horror novels.
About Brian Keene
Brian Keene is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Rising, Fear of Gravity, City of the Dead, and others. He is also the fiction editor of Horrorfind.com and the Best of Horrorfind anthology series.
About Keith R. A. DeCandido
Keith R.A. DeCandido (www.DeCandido.net) is the USA Today and Locus bestselling author of more than sixty novels, more than one hundred works of short fiction, more than seventy comic books, and more nonfiction than he’s comfortable counting. His work in the media tie-in field has earned him a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and covered more than thirty different licensed universes, including TV shows (Star Trek: The Klingon Art of War, Supernatural: Nevermore), movies (Alien: Isolation, Cars: Rust Bucket Derby), games (Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness—The Beginning, World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred), comic books (Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets, Thor: Dueling with Giants), and literary characters (Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight, Joe Ledger: Unstoppable). In addition, Keith has written extensively in worlds of his own creation, including other fantastical police procedurals in the fictional locales of Cliff’s End (Dragon Precinct and its sequels, the latest of which is Phoenix Precinct) and Super City (a novel and several shorter works featuring the Super City Police Department) and urban fantasy in New York City (the Adventures of Bram Gold, including A Furnace Sealed and Feat of Clay) and Key West (two short-story collections starring Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet). He also writes about pop culture for a variety of places, most prolifically on the awardwinning web site Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com). A veteran editor and anthologist, Keith recently co-edited Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry) and The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms). Keith is also a professional musician (currently with the parody band, Boogie Knights), a dedicated New York Yankee fan (he sometimes does editorial work for the Society of American Baseball Research), and a fourth-degree black belt in karate (he not only trains, but regularly teaches children and adults). He lives in the Bronx with his wife and two unusually friendly black cats.
About Ray Garton
Ray Garton is the award-winning author of over sixty books. His work includes novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins.
About Timothy Deal
Timothy Deal is a writer, editor, and adjunct professor of writing and liberal arts. He’s currently working with the US Army and the State Department in providing security training and support in the Middle East.
About Gini Koch
Gini Koch started writing in the American Southwest but now sweats out the words, both literally and figuratively, in Hotlanta and dreams of dry heat. Touched by an Alien (Book 1 in her Alien series) received a starred review from Booklist and was named by Booklist as one of the Top Ten Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of 2010. RT Book Reviews awarded Alien in the House (Book 7) their Reviewer’s Choice Award as the Best Futuristic Romance of 2013. In 2016, Preditors and Editors gave the Reader’s Choice award for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel to Alien Nation (Book 14 in her long-running Alien series). Gini’s also made the most of multiple personality disorder by writing in every length and genre and under a variety of other pen names as well, including G. J. Koch, Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A. E. Stanton, and J. C. Koch. Reach her via: www.ginikoch.com
About Heather Graham
HEATHER GRAHAM, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, has written over two hundred novels and novellas in numerous genres and has been published in approximately twenty-five languages. She has been honored with awards from booksellers and writers’ organizations for excellence in her work, is a proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers, and was awarded the prestigious Thriller Master in 2016. She is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America. Heather’s books have been featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, Mystery Book Club, People, and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including Today, Entertainment Tonight, and local television. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.
About Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins is the author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries. One of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today, he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2017. He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.
About Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds is the New York Times bestselling author of four international thrillers, including Masquerade and The Coil. She also coauthored three bestselling novels in the Covert-One series with Robert Ludlum, including The Hades Factor, which was a CBS miniseries in 2006. She has been a newspaper reporter, a magazine editor, and a think-tank editor with top-secret clearance before turning to fiction. She lives in Santa Barbara.
About Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson has published more than 180 books, fifty-eight of which have been national or international bestsellers. He has written novels in the Star Wars, X-Files, and Dune universes, edited numerous anthologies, written comics and games, and the lyrics to two rock CDs. Anderson is the director of the graduate program in Publishing at Western Colorado University, and he and his wife Rebecca Moesta are the publishers of WordFire Press. There are twenty-four million copies of his books in print in thirty-four languages. His most recent novels are Bats in the Belfry, Skeleton in the Closet, Persephone, and Princess of Dune (with Brian Herbert).
About Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.
About Hillary Huber
Hillary Huber is one of the most successful voice talents in Los Angeles. Recent books read for Blackstone Audio include Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him by Patricia Marx, A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read, and A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart.
