Casey McQuiston grew up in the swamps of Southern Louisiana, where they cultivated an abiding love for honey butter biscuits and stories with big, beating hearts. They studied journalism and worked in…
Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe, and their fiction has been published internationally…
Kris Waldherr is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society, and her fiction has been awarded with fellowships by the Virginia Center of the…
Seanan McGuire is the award-winning author of the October Daye urban fantasy series, the InCryptid series, and the Wayward Children series. In addition, she writes darker fiction under the pseudonym…
Charlie N. Holmberg was raised a Trekkie alongside three sisters, who also have boy names, in Salt Lake City, UT. She plays the ukulele, owns too many pairs of glasses, and finally adopted a dog. Her…
T.J. Martinson grew up just outside Chicago. He received his MA in literary studies from Eastern Illinois University and is currently working toward a Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington. The…
Anthony Horowitz is a prolific journalist and writer for television and the author of both young adult and adult literature. He has been commissioned by the Doyle and Fleming estates to write new…
Yangsze Choo is a fourth-generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of The Ghost Bride, which is currently being adapted by Netflix into a…
Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing (an award-winning zine, blog, and directory of mostly wonderful things), a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab…
Scotto Moore is a Seattle playwright whose works include several speculative fiction themed plays. He is also the creator of the comedic web series called The Coffee Table about a couple that…
قبل خمسة عشر عامًا، اختفى جيريمي ورالف أثناء رحلة مدرسية إلى غابة ريد كرو الحكومية في ولاية فرجينيا الغربية. كانا هناك في لحظة، ثم اختفيا فجأة. تم تفتيش الغابة مرارًا وتكرارًا، لكن لم يُعثر على أي أثر للصبيين. و...
عاش آرثر إدواردز حياته كلها في بلدة نورثبريدج الصغيرة شمال إنجلترا. نشأ هناك، وهناك التقى بزوجته مادلين وتزوجها. في نورثبريدج ربّى هو ومادلين طفليهما، إليزابيث وباتريك. وكما هو الحال في معظم البلدات الصغيرة، بغض النظر عن...
الرعب. بعض الناس يعشقونه! وبعضهم لا! وبشكل عام، يميل الناس إلى تكوين آراء قوية حول هذا النوع، فينقسمون إلى فريقين. ومن المفارقات، أن هناك من "يخافون" من الرعب كنوع سينمائي. أجل، إنهم يخافون من هذا النوع...
عندما ودّع القراء جوي جيسوب في نهاية رواية "القطع الأخير" لمارجوري ماك كاون، كانت قد اكتشفت هوية القاتل الذي قتل مساعد المخرج كورتني ليسل في موقع تصوير فيلم ضخم لأبطال خارقين. لقد نجت من محاولة اغتيالها عندما...
إيفين قاتلة محترفة. يجب التركيز في هذا القول على كلمة "محترفة". إنها قاتلة مُعاد إحياؤها، مُحيت ذاكرتها، وتعمل في خدمة زعيمة القتلة التي منحتها فرصة ثانية في "الحياة". إنها كفؤة، وسرية، ومستعدة للتخلص من (المصطلح...
Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
