Anthony Ryan is the author of the Raven's Shadow series, including Blood Song, and the Draconis Memoria series, featuring The Shadow of the Gods. He writes epic fantasy with a strong focus on character and world-building.
American mystery and urban fantasy novelist, best known for the Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse) series, adapted by HBO as True Blood. She also writes the Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard, Harper Connelly, Midnight, Texas and Gunnie Rose series. Born in Tunica, Mississippi, she holds a BA in English from Rhodes College and lives in Texas.
David Farland is the author of the Western novel Dead Man's Hand. He writes stories that pull you right into the heart of the action. If you like a good Western, you'll want to check out his work.
Django Wexler is the author of the popular Shadow Campaigns series, starting with The Thousand Names. He writes epic fantasy with a military focus. If you enjoy grand adventures and well-crafted worlds, you'll want to check out his books.
Janny Wurts is the author of the popular Daughter of the Empire series, a fantastic example of epic fantasy. If you enjoy intricate world-building and compelling characters, you'll want to check out her work.
Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971, in Independence, Missouri) is an American author best known for The Dresden Files, a long-running urban fantasy series following wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden. He also wrote the six-book Codex Alera series and the steampunk-inspired Cinder Spires series. Butcher wrote the first Dresden Files novel, Storm Front, as an exercise for a writing course in 1996, at age 25. He now lives in the mountains outside Denver, Colorado.
Lauran Bosworth Paine (born Lawrence Kerfman Duby Jr., in Duluth, Minnesota) was an American writer. He wrote over 1000 books, including hundreds of Westerns as well as romance, science fiction, and mystery novels. He also wrote a number of non-fiction books on the Old West, military history, witchcraft, and other subjects. Because his publishers only accepted a limited number of books under a single author's name, Paine adopted dozens of pseudonyms.
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Mark Lawrence was born in 1966, in the United States. While he was still young, his parents moved to the United Kingdom.
Lawrence has a degree in physics and holds a PhD in mathematics.
He is married and has four children. Lawrence is the primary carer of his disabled child Celyn, and for this reason he does not travel to promote his books or attend conventions. He works as a novelist and was a research scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance w...
Michael J. Sullivan is an American author of epic fantasy, best known for the Riyria series. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1961, and worked as a commercial artist and illustrator, running his own advertising agency from 1996 until he closed it in 2005 to write full time. He began the Riyria Revelations to help his dyslexic daughter learn to read, self-published it from 2008, and it was later reissued by Orbit and translated into more than a dozen languages. His other series are the Riyria...
Naomi Novik is an American author of fantasy and alternate history, best known for the nine-book Temeraire series — an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars fought with dragons — the Scholomance trilogy (A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, The Golden Enclaves), and the award-winning standalone novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver. She holds a degree in English literature from Brown University and a master's in computer science from Columbia University, and co-founded the Organization for Tr...
Peter Orullian is the author of the fantasy novel Unfettered. He writes epic fantasy, perfect for readers who enjoy grand adventures and intricate worlds. If you liked Unfettered, you'll find more great fantasy reads here.
Rachel Caine was the pen name of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad, an American author of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and thriller novels. She grew up in West Texas and El Paso, earned a degree in accounting from Texas Tech University, and worked as a professional musician and in corporate communications before becoming a full-time writer in 2010. She is best known for the young adult Morganville Vampires series, the adult urban fantasy Weather Warden series, the young adult Great Library series,...
Sarah Beth Durst is a #1 New York Times bestselling American author of fantasy novels for adults, teens, and children, including The Spellshop, The Enchanted Greenhouse, The Queen of Blood, and Drink, Slay, Love. She has won the American Library Association's Alex Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and several of her novels have been adapted for film and television. She holds an English degree from Princeton University and lives in Stony Brook, New York.
Scott Sigler writes sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, with popular books including Infected and The End Has Come. He's also contributed to Unfettered II and written a novel in the Aliens universe, known for his gritty, fast-paced stories.
Seanan McGuire (born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author of urban fantasy, science fiction and horror. She writes the October Daye and InCryptid urban fantasy series and the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series under her own name, science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the children's portal fantasy "Up-and-Under" series as A. Deborah Baker. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010 and has since won multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awa...
Shawn Speakman is the author of the fantasy anthology Unfettered. He's a writer who knows his way around a good story.