Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Anthony Stroud is an author of fantasy books, mainly for children and youths.
Stroud grew up in St Albans where he enjoyed reading books, drawing pictures, and writing stories. Between the ages seven and nine he was often ill, so he spent most of his days in the hospital or in his bed at home. To escape boredom he would occupy himself with books and stories. After he completed his studies of English literature at the University of York, he worked in London as an editor for the Walker Books store. He worked with different types of books there and this soon led to the writing of his own books. During the 1990s, he started publishing his own works and quickly gained success.
In May 1999, Stroud published his first children's novel, Buri
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Dopo il liceo Classico, nonostante la passione per la storia greca e il mito, fugge dalle lettere per laurearsi in Digital Marketing, ambito in cui ora lavora con soddisfazione.
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The genres that Maryna gravitates towards are period mystery novels, fantasy and sci-fi. Her most favoured authors are Remarque, Austen, Dyachenko and Nesbo. She enjoys coffee and loves cats.
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Chandler Alexander
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I hope my GoodReads profile finds you and yours in the best of health and strength. First, let me give thanks to you from the bottom of my heart for your support in making my dream of becoming an author come true. I am truly grateful.
Author-hood for me began in the Mississippi Delta where I was born and raised. It was those experiences and hardships of growing up that shaped my prospective on life and opened my eyes to real social and economic epidemics that I am sure people have heard of but haven’t really felt or lived.
So here I am to bring forth those experiences to you as a reader. My goal is to put readers in uncomfortable and intense situations in hopes of them feeling and tasting the darkness, the sadness, and the pain t -
Peter Orullian
Peter Orullian has worked in marketing at Xbox for nearly a decade, most recently leading the Music and Entertainment marketing strategy for Xbox LIVE, and has toured as a featured vocalist internationally at major music festivals. He has published several short stories. The Unremembered is his first novel. He lives in Seattle. "
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Natasha Mac a'Bháird
Natasha Mac a’Bháird is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of the bestselling wedding planning book, The Irish Bride’s Survival Guide, a new edition of which was published in 2011. Her first children’s book, Olanna’s Big Day, was published in 2009. Olanna’s Big Day was included in the White Ravens Collection 2010 and was shortlisted for the Reading Association of Ireland Award 2011.
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Natasha has written articles for the Evening Herald, Irish Examiner and Image magazine and is a regular book reviewer with Inis – Children’s Books Ireland magazine and Book Fest. -
Dave Rudden
I began my arts career as a storyteller in Dublin at nights like The Monday Echo and Milk & Cookies, before realising that it might be a good idea to try writing some of this stuff down.
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From then, it was submitting to journals and anthologies, getting rejections, and then occasionally getting accepted by nice places like Bare Hands, the Stinging Fly and The Quotable.
In 2013 I won the Fantasy Book Review Short Story Prize, which was lovely, and I’ve had short stories short-listed for the Hennessy New Writing Award and the Bath Short Story Prize. I graduated from the UCD Creative Writing Masters with the first chapter of what would become Knights of the Borrowed Dark and signed with rockstar agent Clare Wallace of the Darley Anderson Children -
P.M. Freestone
P. M. Freestone hails from Melbourne, Australia, and now resides in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner, their Romanian rescue dog, and a collection of NASA-approved house plants. She is a Clarion Writers‘ Workshop (University of California) graduate and a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award winner, and holds degrees in archaeology, religious history and a PhD in the sociology of infectious diseases. She’s only ever met one cheese she didn’t like.
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Santiago García-Clairac
Santiago García-Clairac es un escritor y publicista español.
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Nació en Mont-de-Marsants (Francia) en julio de 1944.
Estudió Publicidad, aunque dedicaba su tiempo libre a dibujar historietas.
Ha trabajado como creativo, desarrollando spots, cortometrajes y videoclips. Algunos de sus trabajos han recibido importantes premios. Su anunció Avión en la Castellana para Repsol entró en el Libro Guinness de los récords por el rodaje más espectacular. Además, ha realizado los storyboards de varios largometrajes, entre los que se encuentran El penalti más largo del mundo y El club de los suicidas.
Comenzó a publicar en 1994, centrado sus creaciones en el ámbito de la literatura infantil y y la literatura juvenil de género fantástico.
Actualmente, trabaja co -
Livio Gambarini
Livio Gambarini is a philologist and editor, teacher at the creative writing course "Il piacere della scrittura" at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Milan (Italy). His works cover a large array of genres, both speculative and realistic, often involving italian Middle Age history.
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Livio Gambarini è filologo, editor e insegnante al corso di Alta Formazione "Il piacere della Scrittura" all'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. I suoi lavori spaziano dal romanzo storico al fantasy e spesso si focalizzano sulla divulgazione del medioevo italiano. -
Amy Wilson
Amy Wilson has a background in journalism and lives in Bristol with her young family. She is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Creative Writing and has many owls in her house, from drawer handles to cushions. She is still waiting for them to speak to her...
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Nataly Kelly
Nataly Kelly is a seasoned business leader, international business expert, and longtime Harvard Business Review contributor on the topic of global business who is dedicated to empowering business leaders to strategically expand internationally.
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She is currently Chief Growth Officer at Rebrandly, a global software firm with customers in more than 100 countries. Previously, Kelly served at HubSpot as Vice President of Marketing, Vice President of International Operations and Strategy, and Vice President of Localization, where she helped drive international expansion.
To help business leaders expand internationally and gain a competitive advantage, Kelly is launching Take Your Company Global: The New Rules of International Expansion (Berrett-Ko -
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Knox was born in Wellington‚ New Zealand‚ and is the author of eleven novels and three novella and a book of essays.
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Taras Shevchenko
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Тарас Шевченко (Ukrainian)
Taras Shevchenko was a prominent Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature. Shevchenko is also known for many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.
He was a member of the Sts Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood and an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Shevchenko has had a unique place in Ukrainian cultural history and in world literature. Through his writings he laid the foundations for the creation of a fully functional modern Ukrainian literature. His poetry contributed greatly to the growth of Ukrainian national consciousness, and his influence on -
Gareth P. Jones
Gareth first started writing when he was very young but it wasn’t until he was in his early twenties that he completed his first novel. Having had it universally rejected he wrote a novel for children called Who Killed Charlie Twig, which received an equally unimpressed reception and remains rightly unpublished to this day.
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Some years passed during which Gareth met his future wife, Lisa and began a career in TV, working on shows such as The Big Breakfast and Richard & Judy. Then one day he found himself having lunch at the offices of Bloomsbury. He mentioned the unpublished book to a nice lady called Sarah, who politely suggested that he should send in the first three chapters for her to look at (and most likely dismiss, she thought to hers -
Derrick Chow
Derrick is an author, illustrator, and comic creator.
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His debut prose novel, Ravenous Things, comes out in 2022 from Disney Hyperion.
His comics have appeared in anthologies such as Rainbow Reflections: Body Image Comics For Queer Men, Shout Out, Yonge At Heart, and Hogtown Horror.
Stay tuned for announcements about some exciting projects he is working on! -
Alan Aldridge
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Alan Aldridge was a British artist, graphic designer and illustrator.
His career began in 1965 when he happened to meet the art director of Penguin Books, and began producing illustrations for book covers. Over the next two years he took over as art director, and introduced his style which resonated with the mood of the time. In 1968 he moved to his own graphic-design firm, INK, which became closely involved with graphic images for the Beatles and Apple Corps.[1]
During the 1960s and 1970s he was responsible for a great many album covers, and helped create the graphic style of that era. He designed a series of science fiction book covers for Penguin Books. -
Matthew Skelton
Matthew Skelton was born in the UK but spent most of his childhood in Canada. He started writing while working as a teaching assistant at the University of Mainz, continued when he came back to Oxford to work as a research assistant. In 2002 he won Richard and Judy's short story competition. Endymion Spring is his first novel.
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Lloyd Hall
Lloyd Hall (he/him) is an indie author and bookbinder born and raised in the coastal Connecticut town of Short Beach. He’s known for his Young Adult Sci-Fi books, The Wardenclyffe Series which has won various awards including the Eric Hoffer Award for his first book, Wardenclyffe, and the Reader’s Favorite award for his second book, Mercury. While not working on his novels, Lloyd is also the editor for an independent literary journal.
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Before working as an author, Lloyd was an accomplished fashion designer, costume designer, and milliner, designing custom hats for opera and Broadway shows. After hanging up his literal and metaphorical hats, he channeled his love of storytelling into his first book, Wardenclyffe. He now lives a cozy life in Ca -
Phan Thúy Hà
Phan Thúy Hà từng là biên tập viên lâu năm của Nhà xuất bản Phụ nữ. Đột ngột, chị nghỉ việc ở nhà chăm con và viết văn, viết báo.
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Hà luôn tự nhận mình chỉ là người nghe và viết lại câu chuyện. Bản thân nhân vật mới là người kể chuyện.
Cuộc sống xô bồ, xu hướng chạy theo vật chất ngày một “lên ngôi” hiện nay rất dễ làm người ta xem nhẹ giá trị tinh thần, những tình cảm bà - cháu, mẹ - con, anh - em… cả tình thương, nỗi nhớ với con dốc, gốc cây, con chó, con bê từng chung sống với mình. Tất cả, đã được Phan Thúy Hà thể hiện một cách thật chân thực và cảm động. Con người hơn các loại sinh vật khác chính là ở đó! Và cuộc sống, tiện nghi giàu sang đến mấy cũng vẫn có cảnh đời bất hạnh, những lúc gặp chuyện đau buồn.
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Emma Smith
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Emma Smith ist 1988 im Ruhrgebiet geboren. Schon als Teenager schrieb sie. Hat sich aber erst Ende 2015 dazu entschieden, ihre Geschichten zu veroffentlichen. Sie lebt zusammen mit Mann und den zwei Sohnen in einer Kleinstadt. -
Jerry Belanger
In addition to writing books, Jerome D. (JD) Belanger founded Countryside and Small Stock Journal in 1969, sheep! magazine, Backyard Poultry in 1979, Dairy Goat Guide, and Rabbit World. He was an organic farmer for several years, and a homesteader for most of his life. Now retired in northern Wisconsin, he is known locally for his 30,000 spring bulbs and extensive collection of rare and unusual conifers.
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Masa
Masa è lo pseudonimo di un tuttofare dell’editoria: ha ricoperto il ruolo di libraio, writing coach, editor, redattore, curatore di collana e scrittore.
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Fondatore di WritingCoach.it, è stato anche tutor del corso di Alta Formazione “Il Piacere della Scrittura” dell’Università Cattolica di Milano.
Classe ’82, ha abitato tutta la vita nel Varesotto nella ridente cittadina di Cantello, al secolo chiamata Cazzone prima che qualcuno avesse il buon gusto di cambiarle nome.
Grazie alla sua irrisolta sindrome da Peter Pan, nel risicatissimo tempo libero si diletta a cercare di finire videogiochi, collezionare action figures e Lego Castle, giocare a boardgame, tentare di uccidere i suoi giocatori nell’infinita campagna di cui è Master e collezionare og -
U.S. Department of the Army
The Department of the Army (DA) is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The Department of the Army is the Federal Government agency within which the United States Army is organized, and it is led by the Secretary of the Army who has statutory authority 10 U.S.C. § 3013 to conduct its affairs and to prescribe regulations for its government, subject to the limits of the law, and the directions of the Secretary of Defense and the President.
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The Secretary of the Army is a civilian official appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The highest-ranking military officer in the department is the Chief of Staff of the Army, who is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Sta -
Christina Couch
I am a freelance science and tech journalist and the assistant director of professional development for the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing.
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I also graduated from MIT’s science writing program, where I did my thesis on the science of white supremacy. My bylines can be found in Discover Magazine, Fast Company, NBC News, The New York Times, NOVA Next, Mental Floss, MIT Technology Review, Science Friday, The Verge, Wired Magazine, and Wired UK. -
Sarah Todd Taylor
Sarah is a children's writer from Mid Wales. Her debut book, Arthur and Me, was published by Firefly Press in October 2014. She adores puzzles, codes and mysteries and is the author of the Max the Detective Cat series and the Alice Éclair : Spy Extraordinaire series, both published by Nosy Crow.
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When not writing she can be found singing opera round mid Wales. -
Selina Shirley Hastings
Lady Selina Shirley Hastings is a British journalist, author and biographer.
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Serge Brussolo
Serge Brussolo est un écrivain français de science-fiction, de fantastique, de thriller et de roman historique né le 31 mai 1951 à Paris.
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Il vécut une dure enfance tourmentée, principalement à cause de la folie de sa mère. Il eut très tôt la vocation de l'écriture et, dès l'âge de douze ans, commença à chercher à se faire publier. Après avoir suivi des études de lettres et de psychologie, il exerce plusieurs petits métiers tout en ne renonçant pas à vivre un jour de sa plume. Les débuts furent difficiles, son style particulier peinait à se voir ouvrir les portes des revues de science-fiction de l'époque. Sa prose correspondait peu aux critères un peu étriqués de la science-fiction française. La première reconnaissance arrive en 1978 lorsqu'i -
Mandy Hager
Mandy Hager is a multi-award winning writer of fiction, most often for young adults. She has won the LIANZA Book Awards for Young Adult fiction 3 times (‘Smashed’ 2008, ‘The Nature of Ash’ 2013, ‘Dear Vincent’ 2014), the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards for YA fiction (‘The Crossing’ 2010), an Honour Award in the 1996 AIM Children’s Book Awards (‘Tom’s Story’), Golden Wings Excellence Award (‘Juno Lucina,’ 2002), Golden Wings Award (‘Run For The Trees’, 2003) and Five Notable Book Awards.
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She has also been awarded the 2012 Beatson Fellowship, the 2014 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship and the 2015 Waikato University Writer in Residence.
In 2015 her novel ‘Singing Home the Whale’ was awarded the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award, and th -
Giulia Reverberi
Giulia Reverberi nasce nelle nebbiose colline parmensi il 17 giugno 1993.
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Conosciuta online come Giulia Bifrost, si occupa di libri, scrittura e cultura nerd. Sul suo canale Youtube, offre ore di approfondimenti, riflessioni e tanto, ma proprio tanto, sarcasmo. Su Instagram posta meme e foto di bassotti.
Scrive storie che ci ricordano che, alla fine, moriremo tutti. Tanto vale riderci su. Nel novembre del 2022 pubblica in self-publishing su Amazon Zombie Friendly: ci si vede all’inferno e a maggio del 2025 il suo racconto Furto con Squarto viene selezionato per l’antologia Acheron Notte Horror 90.
La sua idea di happy ending è sopravvivere fino al prossimo libro. -
Ima Ahorn
Ima Ahorn begeistert sich für Reisen, fremde Kulturen und das Leben in der Natur. Schon als Kind verschlang sie Abenteuerromane, Märchen und Geschichten über Entdecker. Bereits damals bedauerte sie, dass die Zeit der großen Entdeckungen inzwischen vorüber ist. Ihre Liebe zur Fantasy und fantasievollen Welten kam später dazu.
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Heute schreibt Ima Historische Fantasy. Ihre Helden leben in einer Zeit, als es auf unserem Globus noch unerforschte Gebiete und unentdeckte Wunder gab. Als es möglich war, dass sich irgendwo noch Drachen und Zauberer verbergen.
Ihre Inspiration findet Ima auf Reisen, in Romanen und den Berichten früher Entdecker. -
Terry Weston Marsh
Terry Weston Marsh brings his YA novel "Scourge" to life both as a seasoned storyteller in the world of film and as a physician who dealt with contagious diseases. As a filmmaker, Terry's writings have garnered several regional Emmy nominations. His recent short films ("Rosie's Rescue" and "Red Red Rose") have also netted numerous awards. He was tapped by iconic artist Bob Ross to write a children's TV program ("The Adventures of Elmer & Friends") prior to Bob's untimely passing. Terry and his wife, Tacy, reside in Mooreland, Indiana.
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