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Sarah Rees Brennan
Sarah Rees Brennan (born 21 September 1983) is an Irish writer best known for young adult fantasy fiction. Her first novel, '' The Demon's Lexicon'', was released June 2009 by Simon & Schuster. Rees Brennan's books are bestsellers in the UK. Life and career Rees Brennan was born in Ireland. She lived in New York after college. She obtained a Creative Writing MA from Kingston University in London and worked as a librarian in Surrey, England, before moving to Dublin where she currently lives. Rees Brennan has been writing since the age of five. ack of first novel, Interview with Sarah Rees Brennan, author of The Demon's Lexicon She has a blog on Livejournal which has over 4000 subscribers. She wrote her first novel, '' The Demon's Lexicon'', while studying for her Creative Writing MA. The publishing house Simon & Schuster obtained a three-book contract deal with her which involved an undisclosed six-figure sum. Since then she has written and collaborated on many bestselling and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Demon's Surrender
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Terri Windling
Terri Windling (born December 3, 1958 in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection ''The Armless Maiden'' appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 2010, Windling received the SFWA Solstice Award, which honors "individuals with a significant impact on the speculative fiction field". Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and Korean. Early life Terri Windling was born on December 3, 1958 in Fort Dix, New Jersey. She was raised in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She attended Antioch College, graduating in 1979. After college, she moved to New York and worked in publishing as an editor and an artist. Career Writing In the American publishing field, Windling has been one of the primary creati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow (born December 31, 1949) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist. She is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award (Horror Writers Association). Career Datlow began her career working for Holt, Rinehart and Winston for three years, as well as doing a stint at Crown Publishing Group. She went on to be fiction editor at ''Omni'' magazine and ''Omni Online'' from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated ''Omni'' anthologies. She co-edited the ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'' series from 1988 to 2008 (with Terri Windling until 2003, later with Gavin Grant and Kelly Link until the series ended). She was also editor of the webzine ''Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror'' from 1998 to 1999, as well as ''Sci Fiction'' until it ceased publication on December 28, 2005. Datlow has edited the anthologies '' Nebula Awards Showcase 2009'', '' Darkness: Two Decades of Horror'' (2010), ''Hauntings'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Marr
Melissa Marr (born July 25, 1972) is an American author of young adult/urban fantasy novels. Biography Marr, a former university English teacher, currently resides in Arizona. Her first novel was published in 2007, the New York Times bestseller Wicked Lovely. Along with four more books in that series, which were also New York Times bestsellers, she has also written an adult novel, Graveminder which won the 2011 Goodreads Readers Choice Award for "Best Horror" and was a "Top Pick Fantasy" with VOYA. She has written other young adult, adult, and children's fiction. She is also a frequent contributor of short fiction to anthologies and has edited one anthology with Kelley Armstrong, with whom she also wrote the series ''Loki's Wolves'', published under the name M.A. Marr. Bibliography Young Adult Novels ''Wicked Lovely'' series *''Wicked Lovely'' (2007) *'' Ink Exchange'' (2008) *'' Fragile Eternity'' (2009) *'' Radiant Shadows'' (2010) *'' Darkest Mercy'' (2011) ''Other Youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Winx Saga
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Robin Wasserman
Robin Wasserman (born May 31, 1978) is an American novelist and essayist. Wasserman grew up outside of Philadelphia and graduated from Harvard University and UCLA. Before she was an author she was an associate editor at a children's book publisher. Wasserman has published multiple books for children and young adults, and two critically acclaimed novels for adults. Her most recent novel, ''Mother Daughter Widow Wife'', was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her nonfiction has been published by VQR, Buzz Feed, Lit Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Atlantic. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and is on the faculty of the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA program at SNHU. She also writes for television. Works ''Seven Deadly Sins'' series The ''Seven Deadly Sins'' series from Simon & Schuster features seven morally bankrupt teenagers in a small California town. Each novel revolves around one of the sins and each character's transgressions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales From The Shadowhunter Academy
''Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy'' or simply called ''Shadowhunter Academy'' is a series of connected novellas featuring the character of Simon Lewis from Cassandra Clare's best-selling ''The Mortal Instruments'' series. It consists of ten novellas written by Cassandra Clare in collaboration with other authors that were published online on a monthly basis. ''Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy'' was released in print on November 15, 2016. Novellas * ''Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy'' (with Sarah Rees Brennan) ** Release date: February 17, 2015 ** Narrator: Devon Bostick * ''The Lost Herondale'' (with Robin Wasserman) ** Release date: March 17, 2015 ** Narrator: Jack Falahee * ''The Whitechapel Fiend'' (with Maureen Johnson) ** Release date: April 21, 2015 ** Narrator: Luke Pasqualino * ''Nothing but Shadows'' (with Sarah Rees Brennan) ** Release date: May 19, 2015 ** Narrator: Nico Mirallegro * ''The Evil We Love'' (with Robin Wasserman) ** Release date: June 16, 2015 ** N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson (born February 16, 1973) is an American author of young adult fiction. Her published novels include series leading titles such as ''13 Little Blue Envelopes'', ''The Name of the Star'', ''Truly Devious,'' and ''Suite Scarlett''. Among Johnson's works are collaborative efforts such as ''Let It Snow,'' a holiday romance novel of interwoven stories co-written with John Green and Lauren Myracle, and a series of novellas found in ''New York Times'' bestselling anthologies ''The Bane Chronicles'', ''Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy'', and ''Ghosts of the Shadow Market.'' Early life and education Johnson was born in Philadelphia and attended an all-girl Catholic preparatory high school. She graduated from the University of Delaware in 1995 with a degree in English. Johnson later worked variously as literary manager of a Philadelphia theater company, a waitress in a theme restaurant, a secretary, a bartender in Piccadilly, and an occasional performer in New York City. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra Clare
Judith Lewis (née Rumelt; born July 27, 1973), better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments (series), ''The Mortal Instruments''.'' Personal life Clare was born Judith Rumelt to American parents in Tehran, Iran. She is the daughter of Richard Rumelt, a business school professor and author. Her maternal grandfather was film producer Max Rosenberg. Clare is Jewish and has described her family as "not religious". As a child, Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England, and France. She returned to Los Angeles for high school, and from then on split her time between California and New York City, where she worked at various entertainment magazines and tabloids, including ''The Hollywood Reporter''. While living in Los Angeles, Clare began writing fan fiction using the name Cassandra Claire. ''The Draco Trilogy'', based on ''Harry Potter'', and ''The Very S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bane Chronicles
''The Bane Chronicles'' is a series of connected novellas featuring the character of Magnus Bane from Cassandra Clare's ''The Mortal Instruments'' series. The novellas are co-written by Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan. Release of the novellas began in April 2013 in e-book and audio versions, and were released in a combined print edition in November 2014. ''The Bane Chronicles'' has appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers list for Children's Books a number of times beginning in July 2013. Development Clare, Johnson, and Brennan have stated that development on the series began when they were telling stories about Clare's character of Magnus Bane to each other. They decided that the non-traditional style of interconnected novellas would be best served by initial Internet publication. The series is also notable for using well-known actors as narrators for the audiobook versions of each novella. The authors provided a list of dream narrators to their publisher, and ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Larbalestier
Justine Larbalestier ( )'''' (born 23 September 1967) is an Australian writer of young adult fiction best known for her 2009 novel, '' Liar''. Personal life Larbalestier was born and raised in Sydney. She now alternates residence between Sydney and New York City. In 2001 she married the American science fiction writer Scott Westerfeld, whom she met in New York City in 2000. Selected works Nonfiction * 'Ending the Battle of the Sexes? Hermaphroditism in "Venus Plus X" by Theodore Sturgeon and "Motherhood, Etc." by L. Timmel Duchamp', ''The New York Review of Science Fiction'', January 1997, pp. 14–16. * ''Opulent Darkness: The Werewolves of Tanith Lee'' ( New Lambton: Nimrod Publications, 1999). – Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers, no. 9 (20 pages) * ''The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction'' (Wesleyan University Press, 2002). * ''Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century'', edited (Wesleyan, 2006). Fiction as editor * ''Zo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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