Vacations from Hell

Cassandra Clare is the pen name of Judith Lewis, born Judith Rumelt to American parents in Tehran, Iran. She spent her childhood travelling with her family, living in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She worked in entertainment journalism — including a spell at The Hollywood Reporter — before turning to fiction full time in 2006. City of Bones (2007) opened The Mortal Instruments, the six-book series that established her Shadowhunters w...

Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of Amy Vincent, an American novelist. She is the author of numerous young adult novels, including the Evernight series, the Firebird trilogy and the Constellation trilogy, and of several Star Wars novels, among them Lost Stars, Bloodline and Leia, Princess of Alderaan. She also writes the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney mystery series, which began with The Murder of Mr. Wickham. She has previously worked as a lawyer, a journalist and a disc jockey. She and her husband, Paul...

Libba Bray (born Martha Elizabeth Bray, March 11, 1964, in Montgomery, Alabama) is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known for the Gemma Doyle Trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing) and The Diviners series, as well as the standalone novels Going Bovine and Beauty Queens. She grew up in Texas, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, and worked in publishing and advertising before becoming a full-time novelist. She lives in Brooklyn,...

Maureen Johnson (born February 16, 1973, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American author of young adult and mystery fiction. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. Best known for the Truly Devious mystery series and the Shades of London series, her other works include 13 Little Blue Envelopes and Let It Snow (co-written with John Green and Lauren Myracle). She has also contributed novellas to Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter...

Sarah was born in Montreal, Canada in 1977, she is the daughter of the romance writer, Elissa Ambrose. After graduating with an honors degree in English literature from McGill University, she moved to Toronto to work for Harlequin Enterprises. While she never met Fabio, she used her romance publishing experiences to fuel her first novel MILKRUN, which has since been published in 16 countries, selling over 600,000 copies around the globe. When her second novel, FISHBOWL, received even more ac...