Melissa Marr is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked
Lovely series as well as the adult fantasy novels Graveminder and
The Arrivals. When not traveling, Melissa can be found in Phoenix
or online at www.melissamarrbooks.com.
When librarians finally granted Kelley Armstrong an adult card, she
made straight for the epic fantasy and horror shelves. She spent
the rest of her childhood and teen years happily roaming
fantastical and terrible worlds, and vowed that someday she'd write
a story combining swords, sorcery, and the ravenous undead. That
story began with the New York Times bestselling Sea of Shadows and
continues with Empire of Night.
Armstrong's first works for teens were the New York Times
bestselling Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising trilogies. She lives
in rural Ontario with her husband, three children, and far too many
pets.
Rachel Caine is the coauthor of the Honors series and has written
more than fifty novels in multiple genres, including young adult,
thriller, science fiction/fantasy, horror, and paranormal romance.
She is best known for the #1 internationally bestselling
fifteen-book Morganville Vampires series and her Weather Warden
series in urban fantasy. She lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas,
with her husband, artist, actor, and comic historian R. Cat Conrad.
www.rachelcaine.com
Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of New Orleans-based writer Amy
Vincent, the author of the New York Times bestselling Evernight
series. She has worked as a lawyer, a journalist, a disc jockey,
and an extremely poor waitress. Her grandparents' copy of Mysteries
of the Unexplained is probably the genesis of her fascination with
most things mysterious and/or inexplicable.
Margaret Stohl is the bestselling author of twelve books for
children and teens, including coauthor of the #1 New York Times
bestselling Beautiful Creatures series. She also cowrites Mighty
Captain Marvel for Marvel Comics. You can learn more about her at
www.mstohl.com. Sarah Rees Brennan was born and raised in Ireland.
After earning her master's in creative writing in New York and
doing library work in Surrey, England, she has returned to Dublin,
Ireland, to write. She is the author of the novels The Demon's
Lexicon, The Demon's Covenant, and The Demon's Surrender, and her
short story "Let's Get This Undead Show on the Road" appears in the
collection Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions.
Gr 8 Up-The 16 short stories in this enticing anthology, written by today's most popular authors of paranormal teen fiction, showcase strong female protagonists (and a few guys) undergoing journeys both actual and spiritual. Readers will be happy to see familiar characters and settings from some of their favorite authors' novels. The selections feature ghosts, genies, harpies, faeries, necromancers, vampires, psychics, and Untouchables. In Carrie Ryan's "Scenic Route," set after "the Change," two teens living in a remote mountain cabin fight zombies and bandits while constantly dreaming about and planning their ideal road trip. Jessica Verday's lighthearted "At the Late Night, Double Feature, Picture Show" features a kick-ass heroine battling cannibal Girl Scouts while trying to save defanged Rocky Horror-obsessed vampires after their car breaks down. Margaret Stohl's wryly funny "IV League" is about two not-so-bright "Drinkers" visiting East Coast Ivy League universities intent on getting admitted despite the fact that these institutions normally won't take "their kind." These consistently well-written stories offer something for every taste, whether it's dark, edgy, and violent or funny and sweet.-Sharon Rawlins, New Jersey State Library, Trenton (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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