Markus Heitz
Markus Heitz is a German fantasy, horror and science fiction author, most famous for his five-book Dwarves saga.
Markus Heitz was born in Homburg in 1971. He studied history, literature, and the German language. He now lives in the town of Zweibrücken.
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Raymond E. Feist
Raymond E. Feist was born Raymond E. Gonzales III, but took his adoptive step-father's surname when his mother remarried Felix E. Feist. He graduated with a B.A. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego. During that year Feist had some ideas for a novel about a boy who would be a magician. He wrote the novel two years later, and it was published in 1982 by Doubleday. Feist currently lives in San Diego with his children, where he collects fine wine, DVDs, and books on a variety of topics of personal interest: wine, biographies, history, and, especially, the history of American Professional Football.
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H.P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
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Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mir -
Paul Stewart
Paul Stewart is a highly regarded author of books for young readers – from picture books to football stories, fantasy and horror. Together with Chris Riddell he is co-creator of the bestselling Edge Chronicles, which has sold more than three million copies and is available in over twenty languages. They have also collaborated together on lots of other exciting books for children of all ages. The Far-Flung Adventure series includes the Gold Smarties Prize Winner Fergus Crane, and Corby Flood and Hugo Pepper, both Silver Nestle Prize Winners. Then there are the Barnaby Grimes books, two Muddle Earth adventures, and the sci-fi Scavenger and fantasy Wyrmeweald trilogies. For younger readers there is the Blobheads series, while for the very youn
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Walter Moers
Walter Moers was born in 1957 and is a writer, cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He has refused to be photographed ever since his comic strips The Little Asshole and Adolf were published, the latter leading him to be declared persona non grata by the political right in Germany. Walter Moers lives in Hamburg.
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Bernhard Hennen
Bernhard Hennen, 1966 in Krefeld geboren, ist ausgebildeter Germanist, Archäologe und Historiker. Sein Studium absolvierte er an der Universität Köln.
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Schon während des Studiums arbeitete er als Journalist für verschiedene Zeitungen und Radiosender.
1994 verfasste er gemeinsam mit Wolfgang Hohlbein seinen ersten Roman (DAS JAHR DES GREIFEN), der im selben Jahr als bester deutscher Fantasyroman prämiert wurde.
Zurzeit liegen von Bernhard Hennen ca. 25 historische und phantastische Romane, sowie eine Reihe von Kurzgeschichten vor. Mit dem historischen Roman „Die Könige der ersten Nacht“ veröffentlichte er 1999 sein erstes Hardcover, dem in den beiden folgenden Jahren noch zwei weitere folgten. „Die Könige der ersten Nacht“ wurde durch ein Stipen -
Sebastian Fitzek
Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the traineeship at a private radio station he switched to the competition as head of entertainment and became chief editor later on, thereafter becoming an independent executive consultant and format developer for numerous media companies in Europe. He lives in Berlin and is currently working in the programme management of a major capital radio station.
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George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.
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Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.
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Camilla Way
Camilla Way was born in Greenwich, south-east London, and studied Modern English and French Literature at the University of Glamorgan. Her father was the poet and author Peter Way. Formerly Associate Editor of the teenage girls' magazine Bliss, she is currently an editor and writer on the men's style magazine Arena. Having lived in Cardiff, Bristol, Bath and Clerkenwell, she now lives in south-east London.
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Marc-Uwe Kling
Marc-Uwe Kling wurde geboren. Er studierte an der Großen Akademie von Lagado, wie man ein Haus vom Dach her nach unten baut. Er hat über seinen Mitbewohner, ein kommunistisches Känguru, drei kapitalismuskritische Bücher geschrieben, welche sich total gut verkaufen. Außerdem macht er mit seiner Band „Die Gesellschaft“ Reformhauspunk und am Ende muss wieder der Steuerzahler für alles aufkommen. Hey. Ho. Let’s go.
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Sarah K.L. Wilson
Sarah K. L. Wilson is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes fantasy stories featuring practical heroes & heroines in the most impractical circumstances. She loves writing because it is the only way to make a living and give back to the world when your primary skill is an overactive imagination and a tendency toward violent daydreams.
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Sarah can be found in the outdoors of Northern Ontario with her young boys and beloved husband, reading a book, or fending off her husband's pet turkeys with a straw broom.
You can find Sarah's books in paperback, hardcover, ebook and audiobook and they have also been translated into Italian, German, and (very soon) Turkish.
Please, do, enjoy the read!
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Shea Ernshaw
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Shea Ernshaw is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestselling author of THE WICKED DEEP, WINTERWOOD, A WILDERNESS OF STARS, LONG LIVE THE PUMPKIN QUEEN, and A HISTORY OF WILD PLACES. Her novels have repeatedly been chosen as Indie Next Picks and A HISTORY OF WILD PLACES was a Book of the Month selection. She is also the winner of the Oregon Book Award.
She often writes late, late, late into the night, enjoys dark woods, scary stories and moonlight on lakes.
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Janny Wurts
Janny Wurts is the author of War of Light and Shadow series, and To Ride Hell's Chasm. Her eighteen published titles include a trilogy in audio, a short story collection, as well as the internationally best selling Empire trilogy, co authored with Raymond E. Feist, with works translated into fifteen languages worldwide. Her latest title in the Wars of Light and Shadow series, Destiny's Conflict, culminates more than thirty years of carefully evolved ideas. The cover images on the books, both in the US and abroad, are her own paintings, depicting her vision of characters and setting.
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Bernhard Hennen
Bernhard Hennen, 1966 in Krefeld geboren, ist ausgebildeter Germanist, Archäologe und Historiker. Sein Studium absolvierte er an der Universität Köln.
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Schon während des Studiums arbeitete er als Journalist für verschiedene Zeitungen und Radiosender.
1994 verfasste er gemeinsam mit Wolfgang Hohlbein seinen ersten Roman (DAS JAHR DES GREIFEN), der im selben Jahr als bester deutscher Fantasyroman prämiert wurde.
Zurzeit liegen von Bernhard Hennen ca. 25 historische und phantastische Romane, sowie eine Reihe von Kurzgeschichten vor. Mit dem historischen Roman „Die Könige der ersten Nacht“ veröffentlichte er 1999 sein erstes Hardcover, dem in den beiden folgenden Jahren noch zwei weitere folgten. „Die Könige der ersten Nacht“ wurde durch ein Stipen -
Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz ist das Pseudonym eines deutschen Schriftstellers (* 1958 in Frankfurt am Main), unter dem der Fantasy-Romanzyklus Das Geheimnis von Askir und dessen Fortsetzung Die Götterkriege veröffentlicht werden.
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Richard Schwartz hat eine Ausbildung als Flugzeugmechaniker und ein Studium der Elektrotechnik und Informatik absolviert. Er arbeitete als Tankwart, Postfahrer und Systemprogrammierer und restauriert Autos und Motorräder. Am liebsten widmet er sich jedoch fantastischen Welten, die er in der Nacht zu Papier bringt – mit großem Erfolg: Seine Reihe um »Das Geheimnis von Askir« wurde mehrfach für den Deutschen Phantastik Preis nominiert. Zuletzt erschien die neue Reihe „Die Eisraben-Chroniken“. -
Frank Maria Reifenberg
Frank Maria Reifenberg likes to tell stories, true and invented: mostly in books, sometimes in screenplays, and sometimes in an opera libretto. He is committed to promoting reading for boys and gives seminars, lectures, and workshops on the subject
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David Farland
David Farland is the author of the bestselling Runelords series, including Chaosbound, The Wyrmling Horde and Worldbinder. He also writes science-fiction as David Wolverton. He won the 1987 Writers of the Future contest, and has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Hugo Award. Farland also works as a video game designer, and has taught writing seminars around the U.S. and Canada. He lives in Saint George, Utah. He passed away on January 14, 2022.
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Robin Fuchs
Robin Fuchs, das sind Christian Handel, Jana Ronte, Nica Stevens und Andreas Suchanek. Gemeinsam schreiben die vier Autor:innen für Audible die Original-Reihe „Pech & Schwäfel“.
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Lucie Lukačovičová
Narodila se v roce 1980 v Praze, kde vystudovala antropologii a knihovnictví na FF UK. Je patronkou soutěže O loutnu barda Marigolda a editorkou sborníků, sestavovaných každoročně z hodnocených prací. Rovněž už několik let vede kurzy tvůrčího psaní v rámci Dětské mensy. Její povídky vycházejí v časopisech Pevnost, Dech draka a Fantázia, stejně tak v jednotlivých sbornících (Klášter slasti, Kostky jsou vrženy, Tváře budoucnosti, Písně temných věků etc.). Stala se vítězkou Ceny Karla Čapka 2001 v kategorii krátká povídka, mnohokrát se umístila mezi publikovanými díly v soutěži O rukavici lorda Trollslayera (sborníky Drakobijci). Často experimentálně tvoří se spoluautory, zejména se svou sestrou Petrou.
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Peter Freund
Peter Freund ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor und Filmproduzent.
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Nina Blazon
Nina Blazon was born in Slovenia (the former Yugoslavia) in 1969. As a child growing up in the Bavarian town of Neu-Ulm, Nina enjoyed exploring the "forbidden" woods in search of dinosaurs, werewolves, and "monster deer" with the other children in town.
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Given her taste for adventure and strange creatures, it is no surprise that Nina's favorite childhood books include the works of Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) and The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. These books served as an inspiration to Nina as she began writing poetry and stage plays at the age of 13.
Despite a lack of encouragement from her parents, Nina pursued a work placement in journalism and began to further develop her craft. She credits the books of Theodore Sturgen as a -
Caroline Ronnefeldt
Caroline Ronnefeldt studierte Kunstgeschichte in München und Illustration in Hamburg. Heute lebt und arbeitet sie als Illustratorin in der Hansestadt.
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Die Inspiration für ihre Bücher findet sie auf dem Land, in dem verwunschenen Garten ihrer Familie. Immer an ihrer Seite: ihr Siamkater Willow, mit dem sie sich den Platz am Schreibtisch teilt. -