Eva Jurczyk es escritora y bibliotecaria y reside en Toronto. Ha escrito para Jezebel, The Awl, The Rumpus y Publishers Weekly. El Departamento de Libros Raros y Colecciones Especiales es su primera…
Nacida en Illinois, Marie Rutkoski se graduó de la Universidad de Iowa y la Universidad de Harvard. Es profesora de literatura inglesa en el Brooklyn College y autora de libros infantiles y juveniles…
Joseph Knox nació y creció en Manchester, Inglaterra, y sus alrededores, donde trabajó en bares y librerías antes de mudarse a Londres. Su primera novela, Sirenas, la primera de la trilogía de Aidan…
Kim Newman es un autor y crítico de cine popular y respetado, conocido por su aclamada serie de historia alternativa, Anno Dracula. Escribe regularmente para la revista Empire y colabora con The…
Goldy Moldavsky nació en Lima, Perú, y creció en Brooklyn, Nueva York, donde reside con su familia. Es autora de los éxitos de ventas del New York Times "Kill the Boy Band" y "No Good Deed". Entre sus…
Saraciea J. Fennell es una escritora afrohondureña y fundadora de The Bronx is Reading. También es publicista literaria y ha trabajado con numerosos autores galardonados y superventas del New York…
Nicholas Meyer es autor de tres novelas anteriores de Sherlock Holmes, incluyendo La solución del siete por ciento, que estuvo en la lista de los más vendidos del New York Times durante un año. Es…
Steven Reigns es un poeta y educador de Los Ángeles, nombrado el primer Poeta Laureado de West Hollywood. Además de más de una docena de poemarios, ha publicado las colecciones "Herencia" y "Tu…
Amanda Foody es autora de las novelas juveniles "La Hija de la Ciudad Ardiente" y "El Juego de las Sombras" (As de Sombras, Rey de los Locos y Reina de Voltios), así como de la serie juvenil…
Roshani Chokshi es autora de libros comerciales y aclamados por la crítica para lectores de primaria y secundaria, inspirados en la mitología y el folclore universales. Su obra ha sido nominada a los…
Joan believes herself to be a typical teenager. She spends her summers in London visiting her maternal grandmother, while her father visits his family in Malaysia. During this visit, she has been volunteering at Holland House, a historic home and museum in Kensington. Holland House is where she met Nick...
In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022, Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...
In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...
