Carly Anne West is the author of the YA novels The Murmurings and The Bargaining.

She holds an MFA in English and Writing from Mills College and lives with her husband and two kids near Portland, Oregon.

Alma Katsu is a graduate of the Master's writing program at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. She worked briefly in advertising and PR before moving into the intelligence world, working as a senior analyst for several US agencies, including the American equivalent of GCHQ and the CIA, and a think-tank.

Her first novel was The Taker, the first book in the Immortals Trilogy, which was an American Library Association top debut novel of 2011. A contributor to The Huffington Post, Alma Katsu lives in Columbia, Maryland.

Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and Marvel Comics writer. He’s the author of many novels, including Assassin’s Code, Dead of Night, Patient Zero, and Rot & Ruin.

His nonfiction books cover topics ranging from martial arts to zombie pop-culture. Jonathan continues to teach the celebrated Experimental Writing for Teens class, which he created.

He founded the Writers Coffeehouse and cofounded The Liars Club, and he is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries, as well as a keynote speaker and guest of honor at major writers’ and genre conferences. Jonathan lives in Del Mar, California, with his wife, Sara, and their son, Sam