Courtney Alameda is a veteran bookseller and librarian, who now spends her days writing thriller and horror novels. Her debut novel, Shutter , was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and hailed as a standout in the genre" by School Library Journal. Her other novels include World of Warcraft: War of the Scaleborn , the science fiction/horror mashup, Pitch Dark , a Junior Library Guild selection, and Seven Deadly Shadows , an urban fantasy set in Japan. (Co-authored with Valynne Maetani. HarperTeen 2019). Courtney holds a degree in English literature with an emphasis in creative writing. A northern California native, she now resides in Utah with her husband, a legion of books, and a five-pound cat with a giant personality. Delilah Dawson is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: Phasma , as well as Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire , The Violence , Mine , the Hit series, the Blud series, the creator-owned comics Ladycastle , Sparrowhawk , and Star Pig , and the Shadow series (written as Lila Bowen).

With Kevin Hearne, she co-writes the Tales of Pell. She lives in Georgia with her family. Christie Golden is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of fifty-six books and more than a dozen short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her media tie-in works include her first novel, V ampire of the Mists , which launched TSR's game line; more than a dozen Star Trek novels; the Fate of the Jedi novels Omen , Allies , and Ascension as well as the standalone novels Dark Disciple and Battlefront II: Inferno Squad . For Blizzard Entertainment, she's contributed five StarCraft novels, including the Dark Templar trilogy, and the Warcraft/World of Warcraft books Lord of the Clans , Rise of the Horde , Arthas: Rise of the Lich King , War Crimes , Before the Storm , and Exploring Azeroth: Eastern Kingdoms . In 2017, she was awarded the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers Faust Award and named a Grandmaster in recognition of thirty years of writing. She currently works full-time for Blizzard Entertainment, where she frequents Azeroth on a regular basis. ".