Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of The Familiar , The Invisible Parade , and the Ninth House trilogy. She is also the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology-- and much more. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy . She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University. Liz Climo is a cartoonist, children's book author, illustrator, and animator. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Los Angeles after college to work as a character artist on The Simpsons. She is the author of the Rory the Dinosaur series, You're Loved , The Little World of Liz Climo , Lobster Is the Best Medicine , Please Don't Eat Me , and Best Bear Ever ! Her books have been translated into ten languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.