David J. Skal es autor de numerosos libros, entre ellos Hollywood Gothic, The Monster Show, Screams of Reason y Something in the Blood. Skal reside en Glendale, California. Su último libro es Fright…
Lisa Morton es guionista, autora de libros de no ficción, prosista ganadora del premio Bram Stoker y experta en Halloween. Su obra fue descrita por la Guía de Asesoramiento al Lector de Terror de la…
Natalie Zina Walschots es escritora y diseñadora de juegos. Su trabajo incluye guiones de LARP, periodismo musical de heavy metal, historias de videojuegos y experiencias interactivas más extrañas. Su…
Lindsay Ellis es autora, finalista del Premio Hugo y videoensayista, y crea contenido en línea sobre medios, narrativa y teoría cinematográfica. Tras obtener su licenciatura en Estudios…
Elsa Hart es autora de varias novelas de misterio aclamadas ambientadas en la China del siglo XVIII, incluida Ciudad de tinta, uno de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly de 2018. Nació en Roma…
Jennifer Lynn Barnes (a quien se le conoce principalmente como Jen) es autora de más de una docena de novelas juveniles aclamadas por la crítica. Cuenta con títulos superiores en psicología…
Michael Zapata es editor fundador de la galardonada revista literaria MAKE. Ha recibido el Premio del Consejo de las Artes de Illinois de Ficción; el premio del Programa de Artista Individual DCASE de…
Caroline B. Cooney es la autora más vendida de novelas de suspenso, misterio y romance para adolescentes, con más de 15 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. Su última novela, "Antes de…
Jody David Armour es profesor de la Facultad de Derecho Gould de la USC. Forma parte del profesorado desde 1995. Su experiencia abarca desde demandas por lesiones personales hasta demandas sobre la…
Jon Wiener es editor colaborador de The Nation desde hace mucho tiempo y presentador y productor de "Start Making Sense", el podcast semanal de la revista. Es profesor emérito de Historia de Estados…
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...
In 1974, author and soon to be screenwriter and director Nicholas Meyer published his first novel: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. It was a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that not only covered the foiling of a kidnapping plot, but famously chronicled Holmes’ recovery from addiction, with the help of Sigmund Freud. Over the...
