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Helen Benedict , a British-American professor of journalism at Columbia University, is the author of nine novels, six books of nonfiction, a...

Michael O’Donnell is the author of the bestselling novel Above the Fire and the new novel Concert Black . In 2023, Apple Books named him a...

Originally from Southern California, Leslie Karst moved north to attend UC Santa Cruz (home of the Fighting Banana Slugs), and after gradua...

Chris Nickson is the author of eleven Tom Harper mysteries, eight highly acclaimed novels in the Richard Nottingham series, and seven Simon...

Alex Ritany is a nonbinary Canadian artist, musician, and author of Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry , I Wish You Wouldn't , and Maybe To...

Ed Lin is a journalist by training and an all-around stand-up kinda guy. He’s the author of the Taipei Night Market series: Ghost Month , I...

Robert Gwaltney is the author of Sing Down the Moon (2026) and The Cicada Tree (2022), works of Southern literary fiction that explore in...

Susan Furlong grew up in North Dakota where she spent long winters at her local library scouring the shelves for mysteries to read. Now, sh...

Mark Stevens is the author of The Flynn Martin Thriller series including No Lie Lasts Forever (2025) and Two Truths and A Lie (2026); The...

Diana Awad is an Arab American who grew up all over the world as the daughter of a United States Foreign Service Officer. After college, sh...

Garrett Curbow is the author of Whispers of Ink and Starlight and the Daughter of Light trilogy, which was short-listed for the Publishers...

Karen Rose Smith , USA Today bestselling author, is a wife, mom, and catmom of five rescued felines. Married for 54 years, she focuses on f...