The Eternal Kiss

Holly Black is an American writer of fantasy for children, teenagers and adults. She was born in West Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1971, took a degree in English at The College of New Jersey, and published her first novel, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, in 2002. She is best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, the middle-grade series she created with the illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and for the Elfhame books that began with The Cruel Prince. Valiant won the inaugural Andre Norton Award in 2006, and...

Karen Mahoney is the author of fantasy novels like The Wood Queen and The Stone Demon. Her stories often feature strong characters and mythical elements.

Maria V. Snyder is an American fantasy and science fiction author best known for her Study series (Chronicles of Ixia and Sitia), beginning with Poison Study (2005), which won the 2006 Compton Crook Award. She holds a B.S. in Meteorology from Pennsylvania State University and worked as an environmental meteorologist before turning to fiction. She later earned an M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, where she now teaches in the low-residency MFA program. She lives in Pennsy...

Melissa de la Cruz is a Filipina-American author of young adult and middle-grade fiction, best known for the vampire series Blue Bloods, the Descendants novels based on the Disney Channel films, and the Witches of East End series, which was adapted into a Lifetime television drama. Born in Manila and raised partly in San Francisco after her family immigrated to the United States, she studied art history and English at Columbia University. A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, she ha...

Sarah Rees Brennan is an Irish author of young adult and adult fantasy. Her debut novel, The Demon's Lexicon (2009), was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and began a trilogy completed by The Demon's Covenant and The Demon's Surrender. She followed it with the Lynburn Legacy trilogy (Unspoken, Untold, Unmade), the standalone novels Tell the Wind and Fire and In Other Lands, and several Shadowhunter Chronicles novellas co-written with Cassandra Clare. Her first novel for adults, Long Live Evil (2...