M. J. ROSE is the award-winning, internationally best-selling author of more than a dozen novels and three nonfiction books. The television series Past Life was based on her novels in the Reincarnationist series. Her 2013 novel, Seduction, was chosen Book of the Year by Suspense Magazine. In 1999, Rose broke ground when she used the Internet to self-publish an ebook and became the first author to be discovered online and picked up by a major publisher. She is currently copresident of ITW, and was one of the organization’s founding members. She’s also the founder of the first Internet marketing company for authors, AuthorBuzz.com, which remains one of the premier resources for writers. Before turning to fiction, Rose was a creative director at a top ad agency. She lives in Connecticut with a mysterious composer and their spoiled dog, Winka. Learn more about her at mjrose.com.
JOHN SANDFORD is the pseudonym of John Camp. John was a reporter and an editor at the Miami Herald, and a reporter and columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in journalism. John is the author of thirty-one published novels, all of which have appeared on the New York Times best sellers lists. He is also the author of two nonfiction books, one on plastic surgery, the other art. His books have been translated into most every language around the world. He is also the principal financial backer of the Beth-Shean Valley Archaeological Project in the Jordan River Valley in Israel. In addition to archaeology, John is deeply interested in art and photography along with hunting, fishing, canoeing, and skiing. He lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico. To get to know him better, visit johnsandford.org.
R. L. STINE is one of the best-selling children’s authors in history. He’s also one of the most widely published writers of all time. His Goosebumps series for young people has sold over 300 million copies in the United States alone, and has become a publishing phenomenon in thirty-two languages around the world. His other popular children’s book series include Fear Street, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Rotten School. His anthology television series, R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Series. In 2014, Bob marked the twenty-second anniversary of Goosebumps. Many of his original readers are now in their twenties and thirties and have enjoyed his adult novels, which include Red Rain and Superstitious. Bob lives in New York City with his wife, Jane, an editor and publisher. You can find out much more at rlstine.com.
F. PAUL WILSON is the award-winning, best-selling author of fifty-plus books and nearly one hundred short stories spanning science fiction, horror, adventure, medical, and virtually everything in between. His novels regularly appear on the New York Times best sellers lists. The Tomb received the Porgie Award from the West Coast Review of Books. Wheels Within Wheels won the Prometheus Award. His novella, Aftershock, won a Bram Stoker Award. He was voted Grand Master by the World Horror Convention and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers of America. Paul also received the prestigious San Diego Comi-Con Inkpot Award. In 1983, Paramount rendered his novel The Keep into a visually striking but (as Paul says) “otherwise incomprehensible movie.” Hollywood continues to toy with the idea of turning Repairman Jack into a franchise character. Over nine million copies of Paul’s books are in print and his work has been translated into twenty-four languages. Paul resides at the Jersey Shore and more information on him can be found at repairmanjack.com.