Shards and Ashes

Melissa Marr writes fiction for adults, teens, and children. Her books have been translated into twenty-eight languages and been bestsellers in the US (NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal) as well as overseas. Wicked Lovely, her debut novel, was an instant New York Times bestseller and evolved into an internationally bestselling multibook series. Over the last two decades, she's also published middle grade (The Hidden Knife), adult fiction (Graveminder), picture books (Bunny Roo, I Love You), and comics (The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley). If she's not writing, you can probably find her in a kayak or on a trail with her wife.

When librarians finally granted Kelley Armstrong an adult card, she made straight for the epic fantasy and horror shelves. She spent the rest of her childhood and teen years happily roaming fantastical and terrible worlds, and vowed that someday she'd write a story combining swords, sorcery, and the ravenous undead. That story began with the New York Times bestselling Sea of Shadows and continues with Empire of Night.

Armstrong's first works for teens were the New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising trilogies. She lives in rural Ontario with her husband, three children, and far too many pets.

Veronica Roth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including When Among Crows, Seek the Traitor’s Son, Poster Girl, Chosen Ones, the Carve the Mark duology, as well as the global hit Divergent series, also a major motion picture film franchise. A leading voice in genre fiction, Roth has published numerous short stories and articles and has served as an editor for the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology. Roth lives in Chicago. You can visit her online at veronicarothbooks.com.

KAMI GARCIA is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning young adult novelist, she has published 20 novels, in 51 countries and 38 languages, and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Her best-known works include Beautiful Creatures, an instant New York Times, USA Today, Indiebound, Publisher’s Weekly, LA Times, and international bestseller, and an ALA William C. Morris Debut YA Author Award finalist, an Amazon Editor’s #1 Teen Book of the Year & #5 on the overall Editor’s Top Ten, and a NYPL “Books for the Teen Age” selection. Beautiful Creatures was adapted as a feature film by Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment, starring Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, and Viola Davis. Kami is also the co-creator and writer of the graphic novels MIXED-UP, an Indiebound bestseller, Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee, and TLA Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List selection; and Teen Titans: Raven, the first book in her New York Times bestselling Teen Titans graphic novel series for DC. The series won the inaugural ALA Graphic Novels & Comics Roundtable Outstanding Graphic Novel Award and has sold over half a million copies. Kami has an MA in education, and she was a teacher and reading specialist for seventeen years, before writing her first novel on a dare from seven of her students. Learn more about Kami and her books at www.kamigarcia.com and follow her on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky @kamigarcia.

Margaret Stohl is the bestselling author of twelve books for children and teens, including coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling Beautiful Creatures series. She also cowrites Mighty Captain Marvel for Marvel Comics. You can learn more about her at mstohl.com.

Rachel Caine is the coauthor of the Honors series and has written more than fifty novels in multiple genres, including young adult, thriller, science fiction/fantasy, horror, and paranormal romance. She is best known for the #1 internationally bestselling fifteen-book Morganville Vampires series and her Weather Warden series in urban fantasy. She lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband, artist, actor, and comic historian R. Cat Conrad. www.rachelcaine.com

USA TODAY bestselling author Nancy Holder is thrilled to be back at Harlequin/Silhouette where she sold her first two novels many years ago (for a young-adult line that no longer exists.) In answer to recent queries, yes, she is "that" Nancy Holder, who wrote for Bantam Loveswept, and also Laurel Chandler. She wrote thirteen category and women's fiction single titles before writing two erotic horror novels with her coauthor, Melanie Tem, and a solo horror novel titled Dead in the Water, which received a Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association.

Soon after that, Nancy was asked to write an original novel based on the TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and working with other writers and solo, she has wound up writing more Buffy and Angel material (including show guides) than any other writer. She has written for Buffy since the show went on the air, and her latest Buffy effort is on the stands now. She has also written tie-in books for Smallville, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Highlander and other "universes."

She also writes a lot of young adult and children's fiction, sometimes under various "house" names. She loves retold fairy tales, and has worked on those as well.

Nancy has lived in San Diego for most of her adult life, and is a doting mother to her daughter. The Holder women recently sold their first collaborative effort, a short story about Lightning the Mouse, to an anthology. Lightning is a brown mouse that belongs to her daughter. They also have two cats, Kittnen Snow and David.

Nancy is a Jazzercise devotee and also studies yoga. She dropped out of high school to become a ballet dancer in Germany, but a number of injuries sidelined her. She figure that's just as well - she's very happy with being a freelance writer.

Nancy is a charter member of both RWA and HWA (the Horror Writers Association). She also belongs to the IAMTW, the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers; and Persephone, which is an organisation for women horror writers. She attends a lot of science fiction and fantasy cons. She learned about the Silhouette Bombshell line at a fantasy convention from a friend of hers who used to write scripts for Xena.

Nancy also teaches at the University of California San Diego through the Extension department, and has also taught at the Maui Writers Retreat and in other venues. She is delighted to report that several of her students have gone on to great publishing success, which is just as thrilling to her as selling something herself. You can check for classes if you're local at www.nancyholder.com. You can also email her through the web site. Please feel free to "snail mail" her (including a self-addressed, stamped envelope, please) at: Nancy Holder, P.O. Box 26384, San Diego, CA 92196, USA.