Jonathan Maberry is a NY
Times bestselling novelist, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book
writer. He writes the Joe Ledger thrillers, the Rot & Ruin series, the
Nightsiders series, the Dead of Night series, as well as standalone novels in
multiple genres. His new and upcoming novels include KILL SWITCH, the 8th
in his best-selling Joe Ledger thriller series; VAULT OF SHADOWS, a
middle-grade sf/fantasy mash-up; and MARS ONE, a standalone teen space travel
novel. He is the editor of many anthologies including THE X-FILES, SCARY OUT
THERE, OUT OF TUNE, and V-WARS. His comic book works include, among others, CAPTAIN AMERICA, the Bram Stoker
Award-winning BAD BLOOD, ROT & RUIN,
V-WARS, the NY Times bests-selling MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN, and others. His books EXTINCTION MACHINE and
V-WARS are in development for TV. A board game version of V-WARS was released
in early 2016. He is the founder of the Writers Coffeehouse, and the co-founder
of The Liars Club. Prior to becoming a full-time novelist, Jonathan spent
twenty-five years as a magazine feature writer, martial arts instructor and
playwright. He was a featured expert on the History Channel documentary, Zombies: A Living History and a regular
expert on the TV series, True Monsters. He
is one third of the very popular and mildly weird Three Guys With Beards
pop-culture podcast. Jonathan lives in Del Mar, California with his wife, Sara Jo.
www.jonathanmaberry.com
Anne Perry is
the international bestselling author of over eighty novels, which have sold
over 27 million copies. The Times selected
her as one of the 20th Century’s "100 Masters of Crime". In
2015 she was awarded the Premio de Honor Aragón Negro.
Her first
series of Victorian crime novels, featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, began
with The Cater Street Hangman. The latest of
these, The Angel Court Affair, is her most recent of many
appearances on the New York Times bestseller list.
In 1990, Anne
started a second series of detective novels with The Face of a Stranger.
These are set about 35 years before the Pitt series, and feature the private
detective William Monk and volatile nurse Hester Latterly. The most recent of
these (21st in the series) is Corridors of the Night (April
2015).
Anne won an
Edgar award in 2000 with her short story "Heroes". The main character
in the story features in an ambitious five-book series set during the First
World War. Her other stand-alone novels include her French Revolution
novel The One Thing More, and Sheen on the Silk, which
is set in the dangerous and exotic city of Byzantium.
Peter Dunne, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer and writer brings
three decades of experience in story development, writing, and producing to his
workshops. He served as Vice
President of
Development for three Hollywood studios before beginning his
career as a screenwriter and producer. He has produced and/or written are such
classics as the extraordinary mini-series Sybil starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, The Judy Garland Story, starring Andrea
McArdle, CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation, JAG, Melrose Place,
Dallas, Police Story, and Dr. Quinn:
Medicine Woman.
Website:
www.pdunne.com
Victoria Zackheim authored The Bone Weaver and edited six
Chantelle Aimée Osman is the founder of Author
Connect, where aspiring writers can get their work in front of experts in their
genre. A freelance editor and consultant as well as the editor of RT Digital
Extra magazine,
she is an instructor at the Virginia G. Piper Center for
Creative Writing. A former lawyer and head of development for production
companies in Hollywood, Chantelle is the author of the non-fiction series on
writing THE QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE TO… she has also published numerous flash
fiction and short stories. She is currently editing an episodic anthology,
SERIAL KILLER, for Polis Books to be released Fall, 2016. Visit Chantelle at:
2011 Anthony
Award Nominee
Charles Harper Webb.
Called by Lifescape “Southern
California’s most inventive and accessible poet,” Charles Harper Webb, Ph.D.
has published eleven books of poetry, includingReading the Water, Liver, Tulip
Farms & Leper Colonies, Hot
Popsicles, Amplified
Dog, Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems, What Things
Are Made Of, and his most recent, Brain Camp, published by
the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2015. His book of craft
essays, A Million MFAs Are Not Enough, is forthcoming from Red
Hen Press. Webb's awards in poetry include the Morse Prize, the Kate
Tufts Discovery Award, the Felix Pollock Prize, and the Benjamin Saltman
Prize. His poems have appeared in many distinguished journals
and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Paris
Review, Iowa Review, Yale Review, Harvard Review, Poetry,
Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Tin House, Poets of the
New Century, Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart
Prize. A former professional rock musician and psychotherapist, he is the
editor of Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology, and recipient of
a Whiting Writer's Award, a fellowship from the Guggenheim foundation, and the
CSULB Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. He is Professor of
English at California State University, Long Beach, and teaches in the MFA Program
in Creative Writing there.
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