LJ Andrews

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LJ Andrews is a USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of fantasy romance. She mystically brings to life worlds of dark Nordic and Viking myths bound by conflicts that bring together impassioned heroes and heroines. After building a highly successful career as an independent author with hit series like The Broken Kingdom and The Ever Seas, she bridged the gap to traditional publishing with her global sensation, Broken Souls and Bones. Celebrated as a major BookTok and social media sensation, Andrews has captivated a massive, deeply engaged global audience through her viral storytelling. 

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Wesley Chu

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Wesley Chu is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of sixteen published novels, including the Tao, Io, and Time Salvager series. He was the 2015 winner of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. His debut, The Lives of Tao, won the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction. He is the coauthor of the Eldest Curses series with Cassandra Clare. Robert Kirkman tapped Chu to write The Walking Dead: Typhoon, the first Walking Dead novel set in Asia. Chu is an accomplished martial artist and a former member of the Screen Actors Guild. He has acted in film and television, and has worked as a model and stuntman, and recently returned from summiting Kilimanjaro. His latest series, The War Arts Saga, published by Del Rey Books, beginning with The Art of Prophecy, is an Asian epic fantasy inspired by wuxia. Chu currently resides in Los Angeles with his two boys, Hunter and River, and their very good doggo, Pickles.

Sheree Renée Thomas

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Sheree Renée Thomas is a three-time World Fantasy Award winner and two-time Hugo Award Finalist, has been honored with the Octavia E. Butler Award, Locus Award, Darrell Award, The L.A. Banks Award, and the Ignyte Ember Award. As Editor of the highly influential The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Associate Editor of Obsidian, she is a writer and poet whose work explores the spectacular, drawing on the transformative power of music, myth, folklore, natural science, and history. Her literary works include Mojorhythm, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, Ring Shout on Saturn, the second book in her Root & Sky series, as well as the multigenre collections The Tongue I Dream In: Outspoken Authors Series (PM Press, September 15, 2026) and Roots to Touch Sky (WSFA Press, October 2026).

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