Z Brewer is the New York Times bestsellingauthor of the Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series, as well as eight additionalbooks (so far). They've written more short stories than they can recall andhave worked as a game dev for Poorly Timed Games as narrative lead. Theirpronouns are they/them. When not making readers cry because they killed off acharacter they loved, Z is an anti-bullying and mental health advocate. Plus,they have awesome hair. Z lives in Buffalo, NY. They are theproud ownerof a cob of human teeth. You can learn more about them at www.

zbrewerbooks.com. Alma Katsu has been writing novels since2011. The majority of Alma Katsu's books combine historical fiction withsupernatural or horror elements. Her work has received starred reviews from PublishersWeekly , Booklist , and Library Journal ; been featured in the NewYork Times and Washington Post ; been nominated and won awards in theUS and internationally; and appeared on numerous Best Books lists, includingNPR, Apple Books, Goodreads, and Amazon. The Hunger (2018), areimagining of the story of the Donner Party, was named one of NPR's 100favorite horror stories and continues to be honored as a new classic in horror.Her most recent horror novel, The Fervor , has been nominated for theStoker and Locus awards for best horror and for best hardcover by InternationalThriller Writers. She also writes spy thrillers, the logical marriage of herlove of storytelling with her thirty-plus-year career in intelligence.

RedWidow (2021), her first spy novel, was a New York Times Editor'sChoice and nominated for International Thriller Writers' Best Novel. The secondbook in the series, Red London , was published March 2023 to excellentreviews and has been optioned for a TV series. Jonathan Maberry isa New York Times bestselling author, five-time BramStoker Award winner, four-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner,anthology editor, writing teacher, comic book writer, and editor of WeirdTales Magazine . His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers Rot & Ruin , Kagen the Damned , Ink , X-Files , V-Wars , Glimpse , Black Panther , Captain America , Wolverine , Punisher , Bad Blood , The Wolfman , Mars One , and manyothers. He is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-InWriters. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Sara, and their fierce littledog, Rosie. ".