Jessica Mary Best

Jessica Mary Best is a multi-award-winning freelance writer/editor, an amateur singer/songwriter and a well-intentioned ball of pure quivering anxiety. She is based out of Columbus, Ohio. Her previous projects include the scripted audio dramas THE STRANGE CASE OF STARSHIP IRIS and KEEP IT STEADY. She was also a staff writer on Hartlife NFP's critically acclaimed podcast UNWELL: A MIDWESTERN GOTHIC MYSTERY.

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Layla Martínez

De ascendencia conquense, nació en 1987 en Madrid. Se licenció en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y posteriormente realizó un máster en Sexología en la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

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Tehlor Kay Mejia

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His debut young adult novel, WE SET THE DARK ON FIRE, received six starred reviews, as well as the Oregon Spirit Book Award for debut fiction, and the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award runner up honor for debut speculative fiction. It has been featured on Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and O by Oprah Magazine’s best books lists, and was a 2019 book of the year selection by Kirkus and School Library Journal.

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Pseudonym used by Patricia Highsmith for The Price of Salt, also published under the title Carol.

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