Find him at: www.neilgaiman.com
Twitter: @neilhimself
Alison Goodman – Alison’s latest novel is The Dark Days Deceit, the final book in the ‘Lady Helen’ trilogy, an award-winning mix of Regency adventure and dark fantasy. She is also the author of 6 other novels, including The Dark Days Club, The Dark Days Pact, and EON and EONA—a New York Times best-selling fantasy duology published in 20 countries. She is currently working a new historical series and has embarked on a PhD focusing on the Regency era.
Find her at: www.alisongoodman.com.au
Jan-Andrew (JA) Henderson – is the author of 30 books, mostly thrillers, paranormal thrillers, YA thrillers, and historical non-fiction about Scotland. He is the winner of the Royal Mail and Doncaster Prizes, and his novels have been shortlisted for thirteen literary awards. He has a MA in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. He has written and directed several plays and worked as the writer/director at the Witherbee Children’s theatre in NY state.
Find him at: www.janandrewhenderson.com
Ian Irvine – is an Australian marine scientist and has 34 published novels. His Three Worlds epic fantasy series has been published and translated across numerous countries and has sold over a million copies. He has also written eco-thrillers set in a world undergoing catastrophic climate change, along with YA thrillers, and humorous fantasy for children.
Find him at: www.ian-irvine.com
www.facebook.com/ianirvineauthor
Pamela Jeffs – is an Australian author of weird speculative fiction, mostly short stories. Her best-known work is the Five Dragons short story collection, which was shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards in 2020. Her others stories have been shortlisted several times for the Aurealis Awards, and received Honorable Mention in the USA Writers of the Future competition. Her works are published in multiple e-magazines, and in anthologies all over the world.
Find her at: www.pamelajeffs.com
Mary Robinette Kowal – is the US author of Ghost Talkers, The Glamourist Histories series, and the Lady Astronaut series. She is the President of SFWA, part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and a four-time Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Tor.com, and Asimov’s. Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, lives in Nashville.
Find her at: maryrobinettekowal.com
Mark Lawrence – was born in Illinois but moved to the UK aged one. He returned to the US in his 30s, after taking a PhD in Mathematics, and worked on a variety of projects before returning to the UK. He never had any ambition to be a writer, so was surprised when a half-hearted attempt to find an agent turned into a global publishing deal overnight. His trilogies include: The Broken Empire, The Red Queen’s War, The Book of the Ancestor, The Book of the Ice, and Impossible Times.
Find him at: http://www.marklawrence.buzz
Ken Liu – is a US author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he wrote The Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series (starting with The Grace of Kings), as well as The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He also authored the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker.
Find him at: www.kenliu.name
Juliet Marillier – is the New Zealand born author of historical fantasy full of folklore, family, and drama. Her best-known series are Blackthorn & Grim, and Seven Waters, both set in medieval Ireland. Plus the Viking duology, Saga of the Light Isles, and the Bredei Chronicles, set in the kingdom of the Picts. And many more. She has won numerous awards, including five Aurealis and four Sir Julius Vogel Awards. When not writing, she is kept busy by her rescue dogs and her children and grandchildren.
Find her at: www.julietmarillier.com
Lee Murray – is a multi-award-winning author-editor from New Zealand. Her works include: the Taine McKenna Adventures (military thrillers), The Path of Ra (supernatural crime noir series with Dan Rabarts), Grotesque: Monster Stories (collection). Editor of award-winning titles: Hellhole, At the Edge, and Baby Teeth. Most recent anthologies: Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Gene Flynn), and Midnight Echo #13. Co-founder of Young NZ Writers, and the Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction writers, Lee was HWA 2019 Mentor of the Year, NZSA Honorary Literary Fellow 2020, and 2021 Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellow.
Find her at: www.leemurray.info
Garth Nix – is a New York Times best-selling Australian author of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Angel Mage, Frogkisser! and the Old Kingdom series—beginning with Sabriel; plus the Keys to the Kingdom series; and many others. He has won the Aurealis award multiple times, along with the Ditmar Award and the Mythopoeic Award. His work has also been shortlisted for the Locus and the Shirley Jackson Awards. More than 6 million copies of his books have been sold around the world, and his books have been translated into 42 languages.
Find him at: www.garthnix.com
Twitter: @garthnix
Robert Silverberg – has been professional science fiction and fantasy author since 1955. He is a many-times winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards. He was named to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2004 was designated as Grand Master by the SFWA. His books and stories have been translated into 40 languages. Among his best known works are Nightwings, Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, and the three volumes of the Majipoor Cycle.
Find him at: www.robertsilverberg.com
Dr Angela Slatter – is the Australian author of the Verity Fassbinder supernatural crime series (Vigil, Corpselight, Restoration) and ten short story collections, including The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. Her gothic fantasy novels, All The Murmuring Bones(2021) and Morwood(2022), will be published by Titan. She’s won a World Fantasy, a British Fantasy, an Australian Shadows and six Aurealis Awards; her debut novel was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award. Her work has been translated into French, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Bulgarian and Russian.