Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

Amerie is an author known for her insightful writing. Her book, "Cool. Awkward. Black," explores themes of identity and experience.

Renée Ahdieh is an American author, born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1983. She spent her early childhood in Seoul, South Korea before returning to the United States, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath & the Dawn series, the Flame in the Mist series and The Beautiful quartet; Park Avenue is her debut adult novel. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her family.

He has written "The School For Good And Evil" series. (READ THE SERIES ITS AMAZING)

Susan Dennard (born February 25, 1984, in Virginia) is an American young adult fantasy author. Before writing full time, she earned degrees in fisheries and statistics from the University of Georgia and a master's degree in marine biology from the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research in Windsor, Ontario, and worked as a marine biologist. Her debut novel, Something Strange and Deadly, was published by HarperTeen in 2012. She is best known for the Witchlands series (Truthwitch, Windwit...

Marissa Meyer is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Lunar Chronicles, a series retelling classic fairy tales that began with her 2012 debut novel, Cinder, and continued through Scarlet, Cress and Winter. She grew up in Tacoma, Washington, earned a BA in creative writing and children's literature from Pacific Lutheran University, and holds an MA in publishing from Pace University. She worked as a book editor and as a freelance typesetter and proofreader before writing f...

Victoria Elizabeth Schwab (born 7 July 1987) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction. She was born in California, grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, studied book design at Washington University in St. Louis, and took a master's degree in medieval art history at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in depictions of monstrosity. She publishes her adult fiction as V.E. Schwab and her children's and young adult fiction as Victoria Schwab. Her work includes the Villains series that b...

British author of dystopian and fantasy fiction

Adam Silvera (born June 7, 1990) is an American author of young adult fiction who grew up in the South Bronx, New York City. His novels center queer protagonists and explore identity, grief and mortality, and include More Happy Than Not, History Is All You Left Me, the #1 New York Times bestseller They Both Die at the End and its sequels, and the Infinity Cycle series. He co-wrote What If It's Us and its sequel Here's to Us with Becky Albertalli.

Andrew Smith is a scholar specializing in the history of ghost stories and Gothic literature. He is best known for Gothic Radicalism, a study that connects the horror genre to political history. His writing provides a direct look at the evolution of dark themes in fiction.

April Genevieve Tucholke is the author of Seven Endless Forests, The Boneless Mercies, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Between the Spark and the Burn, and Wink Poppy Midnight. Her books have been published in sixteen countries, and have received ten starred reviews. They have been selected for the Junior Library Guild, Kids' Indie Next picks, and YALSA Teens Top Ten. When she's not writing, April likes walking in the woods, exploring abandoned houses, and drinking expensive coffee. She...

Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American author of young adult fiction. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York, studied electrical engineering at Cornell University and earned a Master of Creative Writing at Emerson College, and worked as a programmer for about twenty years before publishing. Her debut novel Everything, Everything (2015) and The Sun Is Also a Star (2016) both reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list and were adapted into films; The Sun Is Also a Star was a Natio...