Aliza Layne
Aliza Layne was raised by two married dogs but is now a cat. She makes monsters and goblins and Halloween costumes in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where she lives with her gay friends. Beetle & the Hollowbones, her first graphic novel, was a Stonewall Honor Book. Find more of her work for adults and kids at AlizaLayne.com.
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Vivian Zhou
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Michael Regina is the writer and illustrator behind the all-ages horror graphic novels Deepwater Creek, The Sleepover, and the Adamsville trilogy. He’s been drawing comics since the third grade, and his passion for art and storytelling has only grown since. Michael studied painting and drawing at the University of North Florida, where he also minored in literature.
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Jo Rioux
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She's worked as a full-time cartoonist for nearly a decade, publishing collections of both The Last Halloween and the now-retired Junior Scientist Power Hour webcomics as well as the educational book series, Earth Before Us. Iron Circus Comics has just published her first collection of short horror comics, The Crossroads At Midnight.
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I'm Jen Calonita, a MG and YA author who loves what I do because it lets me connect with all of you (and no, I wasn't intending for that to rhyme!).
I've been writing ever since I can remember, but it was fourth grade when I put my "three wishes" for a genie down on paper. They were:
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Désormais, elle illustre des livres et des magazines pour enfants choc ou femmes chic. Elle aime créer des images graphiques et qui donnent le sourire. .
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Marissa Meyer
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Originaire de l'île de la Réunion, Lou Lubie publie son premier roman à dix-huit ans, avant de s'orienter vers la bande dessinée. Ses cinq premiers livres voient le jour chez des éditeurs réunionnais.
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Passionnée par les possibilités créatives du numérique, elle fait ses études dans le domaine du jeu vidéo. En 2008, elle fonde le Forum Dessiné, un site communautaire de BD collective improvisée. Toujours actif aujourd'hui, le site a vu défiler 2.600 dessinateurs et près de 300.000 dessins.
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Sweeney Boo
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She grew up in the southwest of France, where she studied graphic design and listened to really loud rock music. She started working as a comic letterer and colorist for french publishers right after graduation, while pursuing her dream of being a comic artist. In 2015 she made the decision to move to Canada. One short year after the big jump across the ocean she started working at a mobile game company as a 2D Artist. She never lost sight of her true dream though, so she continued to draw comics during the nights and weekends. Her comic debut happened during the summer 2016 when she created a cover and a short story for Rat Queens (Image Comics). Later on, in December 201 -
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Molly Knox Ostertag
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I illustrate a twice weekly webcomic called Strong Female Protagonist with co-creator Brennan Lee Mulligan, which was listed as one of io9's Best New and Short Webcomics when it launched in 2012. I ran a successful Kickstarter in the summer of 2014 to print the first volume, which was distributed by Top S -
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Rien Gray
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Neil Nathan
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UPCOMING BOOKS:
ODDITY WOODS BOOK 1 (2025)- Kid detective Marietta tries to solve the sudden disappearance of her father in a dark woodland realm inhabited by ghosts and monsters. Based on the 2016-18 webcomic.
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Laura Knetzger
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JaNay Brown-Wood
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K.A. Reynolds
K. A. Reynolds is an award winning author, writing books for kids and adults. Her latest upper middle grade book, IZZY AT THE END OF THE WORLD, was a YALSA/ALA best fiction for Young Adults 2024. She is an anxious, neurodivergent, widow and author writing mental health/neurodiverse positive books. Born and bred in Winnipeg, Canada, Kristin has a thing for dead poets, ushering creepy crawly things with numerous legs out of houses, and writing dark and magical tales for all. Despite her innocent appearance, she has been described on more than one occasion as the following: strange, grim, fierce, dreamer, poet, lover of the fantastic, indulger of the macabre, and more often than not, witch.
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Pat McHale
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Jessie Sima
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Lisa DeSelm
Thanks to a steady childhood diet of fairytales, Lisa still dreams of running away to the woods to live amongst the fairy folk in her own enchanted bower. Until then, she happily lives with her husband and two daughters in the wilds of suburban South Bend, Indiana. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her working as an art director and designer, most likely daydreaming with a cup of tea in hand.
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Victor Kelleher
Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. While in New Zealand, he began writing part time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved to Australia in 1976, with his South African wife, Allison, and taught at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full time. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travellings in Africa.
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Sarah Mensinga
Sarah Mensinga grew up in Canada and now lives in Texas with her husband, three kids, and two cats. Her debut middle grade graphic novel, Kindred Dragons, comes out October 14th! She's also illustrated several picture books, including Heather Avis’s Different: A Great Thing to Be, a New York Times bestseller. In the past, she’s contributed stories to various comic anthologies, including Flight 4 and Flight 5, and worked on animated projects such as The Ant Bully, Escape from Planet Earth, and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron. When she’s not writing or drawing, she loves playing board games, going for walks with her family, and asking mythical creatures to solve complex riddles.
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Marieke Poelmann
Marieke Poelmann has studied both Media and culture and Journalism at the Amsterdam University. She did internships at NOS and AT5. At the moment she is a freelance journalist, amongst others for nrc.next and she is writing her second book. She used to work for Nieuwsuur in New York.
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Marieke Poelmann is schrijver, journalist en moeder van een icsi-baby. Ze schreef Een eiland in de tijd (2022) over de impact van ongewenste kinderloosheid en deelt als columnist voor Ouders van Nu de medische weg in de hoop op een tweede kindje. Eerder verschenen Alles om jullie heen is er nog (2015) en het kinderboek Ava en het gesponnen poezenweb (2020). -
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