The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 10

KAT AILES works in publishing as an editor and freelanced for several years to allow her to take a couple of belated gap years, including hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. She now lives in the Cotswolds with her husband, their young son and her beautiful but foolish dog. The Expectant Detectives was her debut novel, the first draft of which was written largely (and frantically) in three weeks after she submitted the first few chapters to the Comedy Women in Print Prize and was unexpectedly shortlisted.

CHRISTINA ESTES is an award-winning reporter who spent more than twenty years covering crime, public policy, and business for TV and radio stations in Phoenix, Arizona. Her reporting has appeared on CBS and National Public Radio (NPR). Christina’s career inspired her mystery series featuring reporter Jolene Garcia, which began with Off the Air, winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest.

Jenny Hollander is a writer and editor from London. A graduate of Leeds University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, her work has been published in ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, and more. She spent ten years in New York, where she worked as a senior editor for Bustle and the deputy editor at Marie Claire. Now the digital director for Marie Claire, she lives in London with her husband and their rescue dog, Captain. She's a fierce advocate for dyspraxia, which she was diagnosed with when she was nine.

A. J. LANDAU is the pseudonym for multiple authors. Jeff Ayers, reviewer, former-librarian, and author; Jon Land, the award-winning, bestselling author and co-author of more than fifty books; and Jon Lindstrom, Emmy-nominated actor, filmmaker and best-selling crime-fiction author. Ayers lives in Seattle, Washington, Land lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and Lindstrom divides his time between Los Angeles and New York.

Lindy Ryan is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author and anthologist whose books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Author-in-residence at Rue Morgue and a columnist at BookTrib, Ryan was a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020 and has been declared a "champion for women's voices in horror" and one of horror's most masterful anthology curators. She is an award-winning professor at Rutgers University, and a guest faculty mentor in Western Connecticut State University's Creative Writing MFA program. Find her on Instagram and Substack @lindyryanwrites.