Elizabeth LaBau

Elizabeth LaBau is a pastry chef, recipe developer, and food writer from Los Angeles, California. She is the author of The Sweet Book of Candy Making and is the Candy Guide at About.com, where she writes creative candy recipes and step-by-step tutorials for the home cook. See her latest sugar-fueled creations on her dessert blog, SugarHero: http://sugarhero.com

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Laurie R. King

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Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956, and grew up in the deadly boring suburb of Wellesley. Following a distinguished career at a private nursery school--he was almost immediately expelled--he attended public schools and the Cambridge School of Weston. Notable events in his early life included the loss of a fingertip at the age of three to a bicycle; the loss of his two front teeth to his brother Richard's fist; and various broken bones, also incurred in dust-ups with Richard. (Richard went on to write The Hot Zone and The Cobra Event, which tells you all you need to know about what it was like to grow up with him as a brother.)

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Robin Hobb

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Helen Simonson

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Kiersten White

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Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth is the New York Times best-selling author of When Among Crows, Arch-Conspirator, Poster Girl, Chosen Ones, the Carve the Mark series, and the Divergent series. She lives in Chicago, Illinois with her husband and dog.

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Edd Kimber

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