The Secret Romantic's Book of Magic

Katherine Arden Burdine (born 1987 in Austin, Texas) is an American novelist. She is best known for the Winternight trilogy, fantasy novels set in medieval Russia that began with The Bear and the Nightingale and drew Hugo and Locus nominations, and for the Small Spaces series of middle-grade horror novels, whose first book won the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 2020. She studied French and Russian literature at Middlebury College, spent a year living in Moscow, later worked in Hawaii and taug...

Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author of fantasy, horror, thriller and romance novels for adults and teens. She debuted in 2001 with Bitten, the first novel in her Women of the Otherworld series, and has gone on to write the Darkest Powers, Darkness Rising, Age of Legends, Cainsville and Rockton series, among others. Her novel No Humans Involved was a New York Times bestseller, and The Rising won the Aurora Award for Best YA Novel in 2014. Her Otherworld novels inspired the television se...

Marie O'Regan is an editor and author who specializes in horror and dark fantasy. She is best known for her work on anthologies like Wonderland and In These Hallowed Halls. Her collections often feature dark retellings and unsettling short stories from across the genre.

Olivie Blake is the pen name of Alexene Farol Follmuth, an American author of half-Filipino descent born in the Bay Area and now based in Los Angeles. She left law school to write full-time and is best known for The Atlas Six trilogy, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller; she also publishes young-adult novels, including My Mechanical Romance, under her legal name.

Paul Kane is a horror and dark fantasy writer known for books like In These Hallowed Halls and Wonderland. He also wrote Expiration Date and the Gaslight Arcanum series, which blend supernatural