www.carrieryan.com
MAGGIE STIEFVATER is the New York Times – bestselling author of novels for young adults, including The Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy (Shiver, Linger, and Forever [July 2011]) and The Book of Faerie series ( Lament and Ballad). When she is not writing about homicidal paranormal creatures and teens, she is also an artist and a musician, claiming both harp and bagpipes in her list of talents. She lives in Virginia with her husband, two young children, two dogs who fart recreationally, and a 1973 Camaro named Loki. She’s an unapologetic Scorpio.
www.maggiestiefvater.com
RACHEL VINCENT is the New York Times – bestselling author of the Shifters series for adults and author of the Soul Screamers young adult series, about a teenage banshee trying to balance a normal high school experience with her new, secret supernatural world. A 430 THE ETERNAL KISS recent transplant into south Texas, Rachel has a BA in English and an overactive imagination, and she consistently finds the latter to be more practical. Rachel is motivated by deadlines and chocolate, lives for a good pair of jeans, and is known to hand out mini-excerpts at random on her blog.
www.rachelvincent.com
DANIEL WATERS lives in Connecticut with his family. He is the author of the Generation Dead series, which includes Generation Dead, Kiss of Life, and Passing Strange. Generation Dead was short-listed for the Sheffield Children’s Book Award and was a 2008 Kirkus Best Book of the Year.
www.danielwaters.com
MICHELLE ZINK lives in New York and has always been fascinated with ancient myths and legends. Never satisfied with simply reading them, she usually ends up asking, “What if?” Sometimes asking only leads to more questions, but every now and then, when everything falls into place just right, a story is born. Her first book is one of those stories. Publishers Weekly called Prophecy of the Sisters “a captivating tragedy,” and it was also named to Booklist ’s 2009 Top Ten First Novels for Youth. The second book in the Prophecy series, Guardian of the Gate, will be published in August 2010.
www.michellezink.com