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Kate Sweeney

Kate Sweeney was born in Athens, Georgia, and has since lived many places, including Los Angeles, New York City, and Salt Lake City. She began writing when she was sixteen. Her father–a novelist and screenwriter–had died five years prior, and in writing she found a way of bringing his voice back to her ears.

For the past ten years she has resided in the Bay Area, where she spends her time making music with her band, Magic Magic Roses, teaching literacy, and working with her husband at the family art-framing business.

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Tori Telfer

Tori Telfer is a freelance writer who is a) inconsolable at her lack of skateboarding skills, b) obsessed with talking about serial killers at dinner parties, and c) has been published in and around the world wide web on topics from Johnny Depp impersonators to vengeful cowboys in frontier America. Her first book, Lady Killers (Harper Perennial), will be released on October 10th.

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Lauren Muñoz

Lauren Muñoz is a writer, lawyer, and former teacher living in Southern California. She received her J.D. from Northwestern University, where she frequently skipped class to commune with her sun lamp. When she's not reading, she can be found knitting, crocheting, and collecting recipes for things she'll never bake. Find her on IG @laurenmunozbooks.

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Liz Lawson

Liz Lawson is the New York Times bestselling author of The Agathas series (co-written with Kathleen Glasgow), Murder Between Friends, and The Lucky Ones. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages, been book club picks for Barnes and Noble, Target, and Read With Jenna, and been written about in national publications like The New York Times (that was a very exciting day).

She lives in the DC metro area with her family and two very bratty cats. It Happened One Murder is her adult debut (and she’s thrilled).

Visit her on TikTok and Instagram @lzlwsn or her website lizlawsonauthor.com

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Mackenzie Reed

Mackenzie Reed is the author of young adult fiction, THE ROSEWOOD HUNT and THE WILDE TRIALS, and her forthcoming adult debut, I HOPE THIS EMAIL FINDS YOU IN HELL. She cultivated her love of storytelling at Nazareth College, where she graduated with a BA in Communication and Media. A native and resident of Rochester, New York, she loves going for brainstorming walks when the weather’s behaving and spending time with her family. In the sparse moments she’s not writing or daydreaming about her next book, she’s usually winging her eyeliner and hunting for the best slice of pizza in town.

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Rebecca Barrow

Rebecca Barrow is the critically acclaimed author of Bad Things Happen Here, Interview with the Vixen, This Is What It Feels Like, and You Don’t Know Me But I Know You. She is a lover of sunshine, the sea, and Old Hollywood icons. She lives and writes in England. Visit her at www.rebeccabarrow.com

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Elora Cook

Elora is an author of Young Adult fiction who loves to write about ambitious girls living glamorous and dangerous lives. She grew up outside of Toronto and now travels often to and from the East Coast. Her name comes from the movie Willow, that destined her for a love of storytelling.

In the Company of Killers is her debut novel.

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Mia P. Manansala

Mia P. Manansala is a book coach and the author of ARSENIC AND ADOBO (Berkley 2021), the first in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series.

She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture.

She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, the 2017 William F. Deeck - Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She's also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor.

A lover of all things geeky, Mia spends her days procrastibaking, playing JRPGs and dating sims, reading cozy mysteries, and dreaming of becoming best buds with Wonder Woman

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K. Valentin

K. Valentin hails from England and Las Vegas and presently calls rainy Washington her home. This far-ranging combination of formative locations makes her very proper, occasionally scandalous, and extremely emo. When not writing about demons, she's writing about hackers or elves.

She has been published in the Bag of Bones Horror Anthology, Cosmos: An Anthology of Dark Microfiction and the Latino Book Review Magazine, and has an adult fantasy novel, An Amateur Witch's Guide to Murder, coming out with Alcove Press Fall of 2025.

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Rachel Ekstrom Courage

Rachel Ekstrom Courage is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Murder By Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery and the young adult thriller Nothing Bad Happens Here. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband (the children’s book author Nick Courage) and their family.

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Kelly Duran

Kelly Duran writes poignant and relatable stories about friendship, family and love.

Her debut novel—Can’t Take It Back—was released on Audible in 2020 and in print & ebook in 2024. She loves writing, reading, drinking coffee and spending time with her family. Not always in that order.

Keep up to date on her writing at kellyduran.com/subscribe and follow her on Instagram at @bykellyduran.

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Travis Sentell

Travis Sentell received Bachelor degrees from Emory University in Philosophy/Religion and Psychology and an honors MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In 2006, Travis was named one of the top thirty new writers under thirty by Random House, and was included in their bestselling publication, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: Best New Voices of 2006. He has published work in such diverse places as the Berkeley Fiction Review, the award-winning collection Silent Voices, The Binnacle, Ink Monkey Magazine, and the cult-journal Ampersand Review. His book, In the Shadow of Freedom, was published in 2010 by Atria. His novel, Fluid, was released by Coliloquy in March, 2012. Recently, he wrote th

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Seth Fried

Seth Fried is a recurring contributor to The New Yorker’s “Shouts and Murmurs” and NPR’s “Selected Shorts.” His writing has also appeared in Tin House, One Story, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Vice, and many others. His short stories have been anthologized in the 2011 and 2013 Pushcart Prize Anthologies as well as The Better of McSweeney’s Vol 2. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée and their two goldfish.

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Amy Christine Parker

AMY CHRISTINE PARKER is the author of the critically acclaimed duology, GATED and ASTRAY and the standalone thrillers, SMASH & GRAB, FLIGHT 171, and YOU'RE DEAD TO ME. GATED was a nominee for both the Sequoyah Book Award and the South Caroline Junior Book Award and was a YALSA Quick Pick for reluctant readers. She writes full-time from her home near Tampa, Florida, where she lives with her husband, their two daughters, and two very mischievous cats. Visit her at amychristineparker.com and follow her on Twitter @amychristinepar.

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Jordyn Taylor

Jordyn Taylor is a New York City–based writer and journalist, currently the deputy editor at Men’s Health magazine; her work has appeared in the New York Observer, Mic, and Glamour.com.

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Susan Wands

Susan Wands is a writer, tarot reader, actor, filmmaker and producer. A co-chair with the NYC Chapter of the Historical Novel Society, she has lectured at London's Watkins Books for their Recorded Authors series and in Berlin at the Occulture Berlin Festival. Ms. Wands' writings have appeared in Kindred Spirits magazine, she can be heard on these podcasts: 'Biddy Tarot', ‘Imaginary Worlds’, ‘Bad Ass Bitches Tarot’ and the ‘Spirited Tarot’ YouTube channel. Her first book in a series, Magician and Fool, Book One, Arcana Oracle Series will be published by Sparkpress May, 2, 2023. The second book in the series will come out in 2024 by SparkPress and the third book is in final edits.

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Amy S. Kaufman

Amy S. Kaufman is an author and scholar whose debut novel, THE TRAITOR OF SHERWOOD FOREST, will be out with Penguin Books in April 2025.

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Jessica Goodman

Jessica Goodman is the New York Times bestselling author of young adult thrillers They Wish they Were Us, They’ll Never Catch Us, The Counselors, and The Legacies.

She is the former op-ed editor at Cosmopolitan magazine, and was part of the 2017 team that won a National Magazine Award in personal service. She has also held editorial positions at Entertainment Weekly and HuffPost, and her work has been published in outlets like Glamour, Condé Nast Traveler, The Cut, Elle, Bustle, and Marie Claire.

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Charlotte Lillie Balogh

Charlotte Lillie Balogh is an author, screenwriter and comic book writer, born and raised outside Boston, Massachusetts. She self-published her first book at sixteen-years-old, and later graduated as a Remembrance Scholar from Syracuse University. CLB is a lifelong superhero fanatic, and she launched into the television and film industry by working at DC Entertainment on projects including WONDER WOMAN 1984, BIRDS OF PREY, DOOMSDAY CLOCK, TITANS, and the CW’s STARGIRL. When she’s not writing, CLB mentors young women through RowLA and WriteGirl, helping to create the next generation of real-life superheroes. Her first traditionally published book, KILL THE LAX BRO, is scheduled for release Summer 2025 from Delacorte Press and Penguin Random

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Octavia E. Butler

Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.

After her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Extremely shy as a child, Octavia found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. She attended community college during the Black Power movement, and while participating in a local writer's workshop was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science fiction.

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Martin L. Shoemaker

Martin L. Shoemaker has dual careers as a software programmer and as an acclaimed, award-winning short story writer. He’s also the author of two novels, The Last Dance and The Last Campaign, installments in the Near Earth Mysteries science fiction series.

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Travis Sentell

Travis Sentell received Bachelor degrees from Emory University in Philosophy/Religion and Psychology and an honors MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In 2006, Travis was named one of the top thirty new writers under thirty by Random House, and was included in their bestselling publication, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: Best New Voices of 2006. He has published work in such diverse places as the Berkeley Fiction Review, the award-winning collection Silent Voices, The Binnacle, Ink Monkey Magazine, and the cult-journal Ampersand Review. His book, In the Shadow of Freedom, was published in 2010 by Atria. His novel, Fluid, was released by Coliloquy in March, 2012. Recently, he wrote th

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Rebecca Sky

Fat Feminist. Author. Dog Enthusiast.
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Shaun David Hutchinson

Shaun is a major geek and all about nerdy shenanigans. He is the author of many queer books for young adults. Find out more information at shaundavidhutchinson.com. He currently lives in Seattle and watches way too much Doctor Who.

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Seth Fried

Seth Fried is a recurring contributor to The New Yorker’s “Shouts and Murmurs” and NPR’s “Selected Shorts.” His writing has also appeared in Tin House, One Story, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Vice, and many others. His short stories have been anthologized in the 2011 and 2013 Pushcart Prize Anthologies as well as The Better of McSweeney’s Vol 2. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée and their two goldfish.

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Charlotte Lillie Balogh

Charlotte Lillie Balogh is an author, screenwriter and comic book writer, born and raised outside Boston, Massachusetts. She self-published her first book at sixteen-years-old, and later graduated as a Remembrance Scholar from Syracuse University. CLB is a lifelong superhero fanatic, and she launched into the television and film industry by working at DC Entertainment on projects including WONDER WOMAN 1984, BIRDS OF PREY, DOOMSDAY CLOCK, TITANS, and the CW’s STARGIRL. When she’s not writing, CLB mentors young women through RowLA and WriteGirl, helping to create the next generation of real-life superheroes. Her first traditionally published book, KILL THE LAX BRO, is scheduled for release Summer 2025 from Delacorte Press and Penguin Random

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Gina Conkle

Learn more about her books at Gina or connect with her via her newsletter
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Kate Heartfield

Kate Heartfield is the author of The Embroidered Book, a Sunday Times bestselling historical fantasy novel published in 2022, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award. The Valkyrie, published in 2023, is a retelling of Norse and Germanic legends. The Tapestry of Time, published in 2024, is about four clairvoyant sisters fighting the Nazis for control of the Bayeux Tapestry in 1944. Her Alice Payne time travel novellas were published in 2018 and 2019. Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) was re-published in a revised edition in 2023 as The Chatelaine. She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury, and The Magician's Workshop, published by Choice of Games. She has published two Assassin's Creed tie-in nov

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Lori Rader-Day

LORI RADER-DAY is the Edgar Award-nominated, Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Wreck Your Heart, The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. Lori’s short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Good Housekeeping, and others. She lives in Chicago, where she is the co-chair of the mystery reader event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing for Northwestern University. She is a former national president of Sisters in Crime. Visit her at LoriRaderDay.com.

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Lydia San Andres

Lydia San Andres (She/Her) lives and writes in the tropics, where she can be found reading, sipping coffee, and making excuses to stay out of the sun. As much as she enjoys air conditioning, she can sometimes be lured outside with the promise of cookies and picnics.

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May Cobb

May Cobb is the bestselling author of All The Little Houses and The Hunting Wives, soon to be a series on Netflix. Her previous novels include The Hollywood Assistant, A Likeable Woman, My Summer Darlings, and Big Woods. She earned her MA in literature from San Francisco State University and her essays and interviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Texas Highways, Good Housekeeping, and more. A Texas native, she lives in Austin with her family.

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Kelly Duran

Kelly Duran writes poignant and relatable stories about friendship, family and love.

Her debut novel—Can’t Take It Back—was released on Audible in 2020 and in print & ebook in 2024. She loves writing, reading, drinking coffee and spending time with her family. Not always in that order.

Keep up to date on her writing at kellyduran.com/subscribe and follow her on Instagram at @bykellyduran.

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Natalie C. Anderson

Natalie C. Anderson is a writer and international development professional living in Boston, Massachusetts. She has spent the last decade working with NGOs and the UN on refugee relief and development, mainly in Africa. She was selected as the 2014-2015 Associates of the Boston Public Library Children's Writer in Residence, where she wrote her debut novel, City of Saints and Thieves.

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Alex Travis

Alex Travis was born in New York and made her way to Northern Virginia to begin her daytime career as a full-time school psychologist. She has a BA in psychology from University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of Maryland. Alex wrote her first book at the age of 11, and has been losing herself in fictional worlds of her own creation since then. Alex makes her home in Virginia with her husband, an outrageous collection of Funkos, and too many books to count.

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Amy DeBellis

Amy DeBellis's writing has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, has appeared in the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, and can be found in X-R-A-Y, Uncharted, Passages North, Write or Die, Trampset, Pithead Chapel, Monkeybicycle, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.

She has served as the judge for two literary contests: The Feign Lit Fiction Prize and the Moonlit Getaway Fiction Prize.

Her literary inspirations include Donna Tartt (her favorite novel of all time is The Secret History), Chuck Palahniuk, R.F. Kuang, Mona Awad, Hanya Yanagihara, and Carmen Maria Machado.

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Amy Goldsmith

Amy Goldsmith is the author of THOSE WE DROWN, which was a Barnes & Noble YA Book Club selection, OUR WICKED HISTORIES, and the forthcoming PREDATORY NATURES. She has a lifelong love of all things spooky and lives on the Sussex coast with her family and beloved whippet.

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Rowana Miller

Rowana Miller writes about riddles, goblins, secrets, strange girls, and mischief. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022, she moved back to her hometown of New York City, where she lives with her wife, Penelope, and two cats, Alice and Jabberwocky. She is the founder and executive director of Cosmic Writers, a nonprofit that provides creative writing education for kids and teenagers. SECRETS OF THE BLUE HAND GIRLS is her first novel.

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Cindy R.X. He

Cindy R. X. He is the author of the YA thrillers This Is Where We Die (a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection), and Perfect Little Monsters (a Children's Book Council 2025 Young Adult, Teacher, and Librarian Favorites Awards Winner, an Arkansas Teen Book Award Nominee, as well as a finalist for the 2022 Daphne du Maurier Award, and the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award).

Born and raised in multicultural Singapore, she currently resides in the French Alps with her husband, children, and rescue cat. She skis in the winter, gets dragged on hikes in the summer (and sometimes, even worse still, camping), and hoards books all year round.

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Amy de la Force

‘An epic start to what promises to be an incandescent trilogy.’ -- Shalini Abeysekara, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of This Monster of Mine

'With an interesting world, as well as plenty of action and romantic tension, it's the perfect read for fans of Sarah J. Maas' books.’ -- The Express

Amy de la Force is a bi writer of romantasy, and A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME is her debut and Book 1 in the Fated For Hael series published by Canelo (DK, Penguin Random House). AKOHAF has been an Apple Books 'Sizzling Summer Read' and top 10 paranormal romance bestseller, and a Kobo romance #1 bestseller and Best of the Month pick. The book is available in 40+ countries.

A shortlistee of the prestigious Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Amy is an Aussie ex

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L.L. Madrid

As a child, L.L. Madrid wasn’t allowed to watch R-rated movies. However, her library visits
were unsupervised, so she spent her summers reading Anne Rice and Stephen King.

Nowadays, she lives in Tucson with her family. When she’s not pretending to be a mild-mannered office worker, she writes dark, moody stories about misfits.

L.L. is the 2021 recipient of the Horror Writers Association’s Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Scholarship. She is a proud member of the Bi+ Book Gang, a Pitch Wars alum, and is in
Odyssey’s class of 2024. Her short stories are scattered across the internet.

She is represented by HG Literary.

MY LIPS, HER VOICE (Creature Publishing, Fall 2025)

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Roselyn Clarke

Roselyn Clarke writes YA thrillers and adult fantasy about the things that haunt us—relationships, mistakes, monsters. Her debut YA novel, NOW SHE'S DEAD, was published with Sourcebooks Fire in summer 2025.

She studied psychology and lives in the D.C. area, where she works in communications. When she’s not writing, she’s buying plants that may or may not survive and daydreaming about future travels.

You can connect with her on Instagram and TikTok @roselynclarkebooks for bookish content and life updates. If you want a behind-the-curtain look at her writing process or craft advice, you can sign up for her newsletter on her website, roselynclarke.com

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Jay Martel

Jay Martel is the pen name of husband and wife writing team Andy Bennett and Katy Helbacka.

They’ve spent the past twenty years collaborating on everything from theatrical productions to escape rooms to their son, Theo. They live in northern Minnesota where the winters are cold, long, and the perfect excuse to stay inside and write novels together.

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Claire Barner

Claire Barner studied public policy and education at the University of Chicago and has spent her career in operations. She is an avid gardener, on a mission to maximize the number of tomatoes her small bungalow lot can produce. She loves to cook freshly harvested vegetables, mix strong cocktails, and host lively dinner parties.

She and her husband are raising three children and love exploring Chicago’s garden walks, lakefront, museums, and forest preserves. Barner leads the parent engagement group at her children’s school and is committed to enhancing equity at Chicago Public Schools.

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Piper L. White

Piper L. White (she/her) is an author from North Carolina. She holds her BFA in creative writing from UNC Wilmington, where she also got her certificate in publishing. Her debut novel, All (Dead) Girls Lie, a sapphic YA thriller was published by Row House Publishing on May 20, 2025. For more insight on her publishing journey and books to come, visit her website https://piperwhitewrites.com and follow her on Instagram @piperlwhite.

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Courtney Collins

Courtney grew up two doors down from the local library and crushed every summer reading challenge. She's worked in libraries and bookstores before deviating into a higher education career by day and a burlesque dancer by night. She's published extensively in her local town newspaper. Her own queerness and mother-loss influence the fantasy world created alongside her husband and co-author, Clarke Collins. They live in Vermont with their children and an abundance of forests, her happy place.

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Sophia Vahdati

Sophia Vahdati writes stories for those still searching for the magic hidden inside them. She holds a First-Class degree in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s in International Journalism from Cardiff University.

After travelling the world to escape the sleepy Somerset town where she grew up, she somehow ended up right back where she started—only to realise it had been home all along. When she’s not writing, she’s wrangling one of her mischievous cats, pestering her husband to help her solve plot holes, or crying at Disney movies.

Her debut novel, The Girl with the Fierce Eyes, is out in July 2025.

Follow her for book updates, behind-the-scenes content, and a healthy dose of cat chaos:
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Emy McGuire

Emy McGuire holds a bachelor’s degree in theatre/creative writing from New College of Florida. She has toured nationally in the Edgar Allan Poe Show, sailed from Rome to Antigua, and written everything from ocean thrillers to pirate musicals. She lives in Colorado.

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Millie Abecassis

Millie Abecassis is a French-American author of adult speculative fiction born and raised in France. After completing her degrees at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris, she moved to California where she’s been living ever since.

Besides writing, Millie is the founder and host of #SmallPitch, a pitch event centered on independent presses (www.smallpitch.org), and the co-founder of the Small Spec Book Awards (https://lnholmeswriter.wordpress.com/...).

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Kathleen Fine

Kathleen Fine received her Master’s in Reading Education from Towson University and Bachelor’s in Elementary Education from University of Maryland, College Park. She is a member of the Maryland Writers Association, International Thriller Writers, and Author’s Guild. When she’s not writing and selling real estate, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling to the Outer Banks, and of course, reading anything she can get her hands on. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband, three children, and Sussex Spaniel. Her debut novel, Girl on Trial, will be released in the Fall of 2023.

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Sabrina Kleckner

Sabrina Kleckner is a teacher by day and an author by early morning and night. Her debut middle grade novel, The Art of Running Away, was a 2023 ALA Rainbow Booklist Selection; the 2022 Moonbeam Awards Bronze Medalist in Pre-Teen General Fiction; and a 2022 IPPY Award Silver Medalist in Juvenile Fiction. On her days off, she can be found traveling the world or gushing about her three cats to anyone who will listen. Sabrina can be found on Instagram (@sabkleckner), and can be reached on her website sabrinakleckner.com.

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Ali Simpson

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