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Marjorie M. Liu
Marjorie is the author of two ongoing New York Times bestselling series: the Dirk & Steele paranormal romance novels and the Hunter Kiss urban fantasy series.
IN THE DARK OF DREAMS, the newest novel in Marjorie’s Dirk & Steele series, is due out this November 2010 from Avon, an imprint of Harper Collins. In this series, Marjorie gives readers a chance to discover what happens in a world where magic rubs elbows with science, where men and women with more-than-human powers secretly risk their lives to help others. It is a world where one right turn can deliver a little mystery that will change your life forever. A WILD LIGHT the third in her Hunter Kiss series about a woman covered in living demonic tattoos, was published this past July to great reviews.
Marjorie is also celebrated for her comic book writing and is a popular panelist at various Comic Cons and conventions. Recent interviews with top media outlets such as USA Today.com, Wall Street Journal.com, Newsarama and Comic Book Resources are available upon request. Marjorie is co-writing the ongoing bestselling Dark Wolverine series for Marvel, and also recently launched the new X-23 series, with copies selling out shortly into their first print run. She authored Black Widow: The Name of the Rose, NYX: No Way Home, and X-Men: Dark Mirror, and has received critical praise for her writing in Masked, an anthology of superhero fiction that came out this past summer.
Marjorie also gained national renown with the paranormal romance video game, Tiger Eye: Curse of the Riddle Box, which was based on her novel, Tiger Eye. The game was featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live, was a top ten bestseller at Big Fish Games, and will soon be available at select major retailers.
Marjorie is an attorney and divides her time between the American Midwest and Beijing, China. Recent international coverage of Marjorie’s work includes features in the Beijing Global Times, China Daily, and Paris’s Comic Box.
To check out what Marjorie is up to, visit her blog at www.marjoriemliu.comor follow her on twitter at twitter.com/marjoriemliu.
Kelley Armstrong
A whopping seven of Armstrong’s adult Otherworld series novels have hit the hardcover and mass market New York Times bestseller lists, and both of her young adult Darkest Powers books hit the New York Times children’s list, debuting at slots #1 and #5. Her first two novels, Bitten and Stolen, continue to sell in huge numbers, and, on July 27th Dutton will publish WAKING THE WITCH, where she introduces her youngest protagonist, Savannah Levine, to the Otherworld audience. Savannah is now a spunky, spirited, and talented young witch now, a far cry from the precocious and uncontrollable child many of us met eight years ago in Stolen, but that won’t stop her from getting caught up in a web of unraveling secrets, a burgeoning love affair, and a shocking revelation that threatens to shatter her entire world. Find out more about Kelley at www.kelleyarmstrong.com.
Dina Rose, Ph.D.
Dina is the author of the popular blog, www.itsnotaboutnutrition.com, and is an expert food sociologist who recommends that parents shift their focus from nutrition to actively creating lifelong, healthy eating habits for their children. In her forthcoming book, It’s NOT About Nutrition: The Art & Science of Teaching Kids to Eat Right, Rose teaches parents how to consciously shape their children's relationship to food and solve eating problems that arise at different developmental stages and how to use taste and texture to teach kids to eat a wide variety of foods. Dina’s previous research in criminology has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times and on The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC). In It’s NOT About Nutrition: The Art & Science of Teaching Kids to Eat Right, Dina combines her professional expertise on socialization and her knowledge about nutrition, parenting and food psychology research, with the practical skills she has gained from talking to, interviewing, and coaching hundreds of parents.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay is a #1 international bestselling author of ten previous novels and an acclaimed collection of poetry, Beyond This Dark House. Kay made his literary debut assisting Christopher Tolkien in the editorial construction of J.R.R. Tolkien’s unfinished The Silmarillion. His work has been translated into over twenty languages and he has been nominated for and has won numerous literary awards including The World Fantasy Award and The Aurora Award. He is also the recipient of the International Goliardos Prize (presented in Mexico City) for his contributions to the literature of the fantastic. Guy Gavriel Kay lives in Toronto. His latest novel, UNDER HEAVEN, will go on sale May 1st and is a powerful and emotionally compelling novel inspired by the glory of Tang Dynasty China in the eighth century. For more about GGK, check out www.brightweavings.com and /www.guygavrielkay.ca.
Vanguard Press: Douglas Clegg
Vanguard Press, a member of The Perseus Books Group, has a publishing model that is unique in the industry. It is a creative and extremely close collaboration between author and publisher that focuses on innovative ways to communicate with booksellers and readers. Vanguard’s mission is to have a selective publishing list, and to look at every book as an event. They craft substantial, focused, and energetic marketing campaigns that will reach the widest possible audience. To learn more about the Perseus Books Group, visit: www.perseusbooksgroup.com.
In 2009, Vanguard published the eerie and unforgettable novella, Isis, by Douglas Clegg. Douglas Clegg is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Shocker Award. He has been writing fiction since childhood, but only pursued publication of it beginning in his late twenties, when he published Goat Dance. In 1999, Douglas Clegg launched the internet’s (and world’s) first publisher-sponsored e-serial novel, Naomi. A year later, Clegg’s short novel Purity became the world’s first piece of fiction to appear on a cell phone, nicknamed an M-Book at the time (for Mobile). Clegg’s latest novel, NEVERLAND, goes on-sale April 13, 2010 and is a haunting southern gothic tale of family secrets and childhood games gone awry. For more information, visit Douglas Clegg at www.DouglasClegg.com.
PassionFruit Games
PassionFruit Games is blazing a new trail in the gaming industry by transforming romance novels into interactive entertainment. They focus on creating romance casual games and pride themselves for being one of the first companies to make games written by, designed by, and created for intelligent, savvy, romance-seeking women. Their fellowship has created games together since 2006, the latest one receiving Yahoo’s prestigious “Game of the Year 2009” award for hidden object-style games. In April 2010 they will release Tiger Eye: Curse of the Riddle Box, a hidden-object style game loaded with compelling puzzles and minigames, beautiful voice-acted cinematics, and romance; it is available for pre-order now at www.passionfruitgames.com.
Hope Tarr
Hope Tarr is an award-winning author of more than a dozen historical and contemporary romance fiction novels. Hope is a past nominee for The Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence and Romantic Times BOOK Reviews Magazine's Most Unusual Historical Romance Award, and her sexy, sensual books are beloved by readers from Maine to Mumbai. To read Hope's Single Girl in the Big City blog, to enter her regular and special contests, or for a complete listing of her books, visit her web site at www.hopetarr.com.
Tor Books:
Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card/Jake Black
Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is a New York-based publisher of hardcover and softcover books, founded in 1980 and committed (although not limited) to SF and fantasy literature. Between an extensive hardcover and trade-softcover line, an Orb backlist program, and a stronghold in mass-market paperback, Tor annually publishes what is arguably the largest and most diverse line of science fiction and fantasy ever produced by a single English-language publisher. Books from Tor have won every major award in the SF and fantasy fields, and for the last twenty-two years in a row the company has been named Best Publisher in the Locus Poll, the largest consumer poll in SF.
Robert Jordan began writing in 1977 and went on to write The Wheel of Time®, one of the most important and best selling series in the history of fantasy publishing with over 14 million copies sold in North America, and over 30 million copies worldwide.. Tor’s beloved author, Robert Jordan, died on September 16, 2007, after a courageous battle with the rare blood disease amyloidosis, when the conclusion to the series was only partially written. Brandon Sanderson, the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed first novel Elantris, the Mistborn trilogy, the middle grade “Alcatraz” series and Warbreaker was chosen by Jordan’s editor—his wife, Harriet McDougal—to complete the series based on the notes and materials left behind and to continue Jordan’s legacy. The Gathering Storm, the long awaited next novel in The Wheel of Time series, was published in October 2009 and was met with great critical acclaim and hit the #1 position on The New York Times bestseller list, temporarily dethroning Dan Brown. To join other WOT fans in conversation check out www.dragonmount.com or to learn more about Brandon, visit www.brandonsanderson.com.
The Authorized Ender Companion came out from Tor in November 2009 to the delight of many Ender fans who are now able to explore the first complete and in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in Orson Scott Card’s beloved Ender Universe. This long-awaited volume was written by Jake Black under the editorial supervision of Card himself, who was recently awarded the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in Young Adult literature from the American Library Association. Orson Scott Card is the bestselling author of Ender's Game and eight other novels in that universe. Jake Black has written for several popular franchises and characters including Smallville, Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Twilight, Star Trek, and many others. He is also the author of Marvel Comics’ Ender-series comic books “Gold Bug,” “Cheater,” and “Recruiting Valentine.” He lives in a quiet Utah town with his wife and son.
Rose Communications
Goldberg McDuffie
A selection of authors with whom we have worked throughout our careers include:
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