The Hopeless Romantic's Guide to Enchantment

Paul Kane is the award-winning and bestselling author/editor of over ninety books. He is also a respected anthologist. His website can be found at www.shadow-writer.co.uk and he tweets @PaulKaneShadow

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.

Rebecca Thorne is a Sunday Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestselling author, specializing in fantasy, sci-fi, and romance. She is a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community, hails from sunny Arizona, USA, and uses her ADHD as a superpower to write multiple books a year. When she’s not writing (or avoiding writing), Rebecca can be found travelling the country as a flight attendant, hiking with her lovely wife and their dogs, or basking in the sun like a lizard.

Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in their purse, and nothing in particular to interest them on shore, Alexis Hall thought they would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Unfortunately, the boat they were in sank with all hands, and they were only rescued by a passing whaler. They have since become a novelist and are the author of Boyfriend Material and Hell's Heart.

Juliet Marillier was born in New Zealand and brought up in Dunedin, the ‘Edinburgh of the South’. She has a passionate interest in Celtic music and Irish folklore. A mother of two daughters and two sons, she lives in a rural area outside Perth in Western Australia.

JEN WILLIAMS is a writer from London currently living in Bristol with her fiancé, fellow fantasy author Peter Newman, and a dramatically fluffy cat. A fan of witches and dark folklore from an early age, these days she writes character-driven fantasy novels with plenty of banter and magic. She was nominated for Best Newcomer in the British Fantasy Awards, and her books The Ninth Rain and The Bitter Twins both went on to win Best Fantasy Novel, which she won again in 2024 for Talonsister. The Sleepless duology is her first YA fantasy series.