Jana G. Oliver is an American author whose stories are set in a number of genres, including romance, urban fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical mystery. An Iowa native, she currently lives in Portugal.
Her Time Rovers Series was originally published by Dragon Moon Press, a Canadian speculative fiction publisher. The series was nominated for fifteen awards and won twelve, including ForeWord Magazine's Editor's Choice Book of the Year, the first time a science fiction novel received that honor.
In 2009, Oliver was signed by St. Martin's Press to write the Demon Trappers Series, a young adult urban fantasy series. The series originally consisted of four books and was translated into German, French, Brazilian, Russian, Turkish, Danish and Mandarin. Five more books have been added to the series since 2012.
Oliver also wrote a romantic suspense/thriller series (Veritas Series) under the pseudonym (Chandler Steele).
Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers and around 5 million books in print. Since 2002 he's written several books in a historical mystery series featuring an 18th-century magistrate’s clerk, Matthew Corbett, as he unravels mysteries in colonial America.
Paul Charles Dominic Doherty is an English author, educator, lecturer and historian. He is also the Headmaster of Trinity Catholic High School in London, England. Doherty is a prolific writer, has produced dozens of historical novels and a number of nonfiction history books.
Ronald Joseph Goulart (; was an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy and science fiction author.
Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, placing supernatural elements in an approximation of a contemporary or modern, often urban, setting. The combination provides the writer with a platform for classic fantasy tropes, quixotic plot-elements, and unusual characters—without demanding the creation of an entire imaginary world.
Ted Dekker is an American author of Christian mystery, thriller, and fantasy novels including Thr3e, Obsessed, and the Circle Series.
John E. Stith is an American science fiction and mystery author, known for the scientific rigor he brings to adventure and mystery stories.
Richard Allen Lupoff was an American science-fiction and mystery author, who also wrote humor, satire, nonfiction and reviews. In addition to his two dozen novels and more than 40 short stories, he also edited science-fantasy anthologies. He was an expert on the writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and had an equally strong interest in H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-edited the non-fiction anthology All in Color For a Dime, which has been described as "the very first published volume dedicated to comic book criticism"; as well as its sequel, The Comic-Book Book.
Ruth Glick is an American writer of cookbooks, romance and young adult novels. She has written novels under the pseudonym Rebecca York; until 1997 these were written in collaboration with Eileen Buckholtz.
Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children's book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially, she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today, Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.
Kylie Brant is an American author of contemporary romantic suspense novels.
Libby Fischer Hellmann is an American crime fiction writer who currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Most of her novels and stories are set in Chicago; the Chicago Sun-Times notes that she "grew up in Washington, D.C., but she has embraced her adopted home of Chicago with the passion of a convert."
Dragon Moon Press is an American independent publishing company, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and cross-genre novels. It was founded in 1993 by Gwen Gades, and released its first book in 1998.
Tosca Lee is an American author known for her historical novels and thrillers.
Mystery Scene is an American magazine, first published in 1985, that covers the crime and mystery genre with a mix of articles, profiles, criticism, and extensive reviews of books, films, TV, short stories, audiobooks, and reference works.
Jessie Chandler is an American author of mystery and humorous caper fiction, most of which is about lesbian protagonists. Her work includes the Shay O'Hanlon Caper Series, many short stories, and other novels. Chandler has presented talks about the craft of writing, serves as a mentor to many up-and-coming writers, and is a contributing member of The Golden Crown Literary Society, Sisters in Crime, and serves on the board of Mystery Writers of America.
Linda Castillo is an American author of novels including The New York Times and USA Today bestselling Kate Burkholder series, which are crime thrillers set in Amish country. The first book, Sworn to Silence (2009), was adapted into a Lifetime original movie titled An Amish Murder starring Neve Campbell. She has also written numerous romance and romantic suspense novels. Castillo grew up in Arcanum, Ohio and now lives in Texas with her husband.
Gabrielle Harbowy is an American author, editor, and anthologist. As of January 2024, she is a literary agent apprentice at Corvisiero Literary Agency. She has been Managing Editor at Dragon Moon Press, a copyeditor for Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books, and a Submissions Editor at Apex Magazine.
Susan M. Boyer is a USA Today bestselling author of mystery novels set in the American South.
Rebecca Zanetti is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of paranormal romance, contemporary romance, and romantic suspense.
A Natural History of Hell is a collection of thirteen stories written by Jeffrey Ford and released in July 2016. The collection has won the 2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection as well as the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Short Story Collection.