Diana Peterfreund is the author of eleven novels for adults and teens, as well as several critically acclaimed short stories and a handful of essays on popular children's literature. She grew up in Florida, and lives with her family outside Washington, D.C. Her website is http://dianapeterfreund.com

I grew up in Mesquite, Texas, which for those of you who like livestock shows, is the home of the Mesquite Rodeo. I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, worked a few years as a newspaper reporter, and then as a marketing writer before I got serious about finishing my first novel, I Do (But I Don't). It would go on to become a Lifetime Original Movie starring Dean Cain and Denise Richards.

I've written a whole lot of books (eighteen and counting) in a whole lot of genres including YA, paranormal, mystery and romance. My books have been translated into several languages and are sold all over the world. I'm married and live near Chicago with my husband and our children. When I am not staring at a blinking cursor with dread, I am working on finishing my next novel.

Come visit me at www.caralockwood.com.

Or follow me @caralockwood.com

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Sarah Darer Littman is the critically acclaimed author of Some Kind of Hate, Deepfake, Anything But Okay, In Case You Missed It, Backlash, Want to Go Private?; Life, After; Purge; and middle grade novels Fairest of Them All, Charmed, I'm Sure, and Confessions of a Closet Catholic, winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award. She teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University, and at the Yale Writers' Workshop.

Leah Wilson is Editor-in-Chief of the Smart Pop imprint of Dallas-based publisher BenBella Books. She graduated from Duke University in 2003 with a degree in Culture and Modern Fiction, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fall season premiere schedules make her a little giddy.

(Her author blog is the main blog for Smart Pop's website.)

I'm a Jennifer who goes mostly by Jen, an Oklahoma girl who's also lived in Connecticut and England, and a writer who spent years with a not-so-secret double life as a cognitive scientist, studying the psychology of fiction and the psychology of fandom.

"With a crisp, engaging voice and sharp wit, Adrienne Kress is always a treat to read." - Kelley Armstrong, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Adrienne Kress is a Toronto-born actor and author who loves to play make-believe. She also loves hot chocolate. And cheese. Not necessarily together.

April 2016 saw the release of HATTER MADIGAN: Ghost in the H.A.T.B.O.X., an exciting collaboration with NY Times bestselling author Frank Beddor (set in the same world as his Looking Glass Wars YA books). And next April she releases the first book in her new Middle Grade series: THE EXPLORERS (Delacorte, Random House).

And later this year her essay will appear alongside work by the likes of Margaret Atwood and Mariko Tamaki in the non-fiction anthology THE SECRET LOVES OF GEEK GIRLS (Dark Horse Press).

She is also the author of the award winning and internationally published children's novels ALEX AND THE IRONIC GENTLEMAN and TIMOTHY AND THE DRAGON'S GATE (Scholastic). Published around the world, ALEX won the Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Red Cedar. The sequel, TIMOTHY, was shortlisted for the Audie, Red Cedar and Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards, and was optioned for film.

She has also published two YA novels: OUTCAST (Diversion Books), her quirky paranormal romance, and the Steampunk adventure THE FRIDAY SOCIETY (Penguin), released to a starred review from Quill and Quire and was shortlisted for The Quill Awards.

Adrienne is also an actor with an honours BA in theatre from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of LAMDA's post-graduate classical acting programme in the UK. Some of her recent theatre roles include Connie in COME BLOW YOUR HORN (Classic Theatre Festival), First Lady in A MASKED BALL (Canadian Opera Company), Alisa in SWOON! (nation.theatre), Ellie Powers in DUEL OF AGES (True Edge Productions), and Lady Capulet in ROMEO AND JULIET (Tempest Theatre Group). She can also be seen in the horror flicks THE DEVIL'S MILE (Grover's Mill) and WOLVES (directed by David Hayter), as well as the television shows AMERICAN GODS and LOST GIRL.

Her website www.AdrienneKress.com

Carrie Ryan is the New York Times bestselling author of a lot of books. She used to be a lawyer. Happily, she is not anymore. You can keep it that way by reading her books:

If you like thrillers, check out Trapper Road, Book 6 in the #1 WSJ Bestselling Stillhouse Lake series, co-written with Rachel Caine.

If you like zombies, try the Forest of Hands and Teeth series.

If you like clever, fun adventure fantasy for 8-12 year olds, definitely read the Map To Everywhere series (co-written with her husband, John Parke Davis).

If you like cold calculated revenge involving hidden identities and lots of secrets: Daughter of Deep Silence.

If you or your kids like multi-author, multi-platform series like 39 Clues and Spirit Animals, try Infinity Ring: Divide and Conquer -- it's produced by the same publisher (and has vikings and true history!)

If you like true-crime stuff (both fiction and podcasts), check out Dead Air, a serialized thriller co-written with Gwenda Bond and Rachel Caine.

If you want to learn more about Carrie (and especially more about her pets) check her out online at www.CarrieRyan.com. Or Twitter: @CarrieRyan. Or Instagram: @CarrieRyanWrites

If you're pretty sure you won't survive the zombie apocalypse, you're in good company. She won't either.

Lili Wilkinson is the award-winning author of eighteen books for young people, including The Erasure Initiative and After the Lights Go Out. Lili has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate advocate for YA and the young people who read it, establishing the Inky Awards at the Centre for Youth Literature, State Library of Victoria. Her latest book is A Hunger of Thorns (Delacorte, Allen & Unwin).

Blythe Woolston is a Montana native. Her debut novel, The Freak Observer, earned the 2011 William C. Morris award. All her books, including Catch & Release and Black Helicopters, are quirky blends of western landscape, gritty realism, and flashes of dark humor. Her books are not known for unambiguous happy endings. She is gainfully employed as an indexer of academic nonfiction; it is a vocation which both pays for socks and keeps a steady stream of pages moving through her hands.

Terri Clark feels blessed to demonstrate her passion for young adult fiction as both a teen librarian and author. For as long as she can remember she’s been fascinated with the paranormal, so it’s little wonder her stories are a bit edgy and twisted. Sleepless (HarperTeen) is about a teen who is stalked in her dreams by a killer and her short story in the Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (HoughtonMifflin) anthology delves into mind-reading. Terri’s also been a part of the non-fiction anthology Flirtin’ with the Monster (BenBella Books). Her next paranormal, Hollyweird (Flux) will be released May 9, 2012 and she's a participating author in BenBella's The Girl Who Was On Fire Anthology (April 2011). You can visit Terri online at www.TerriClarkBooks.com and at www.facebook.com/terriclarkbooks.