Guests




Daniel Abraham

Daniel Abraham
Daniel Abraham

Once upon a time, there were three writers who were really only one. Well, two and a half writers. Or three writers that were one and a half. It's complicated.

Daniel Abraham, when he's himself, is a writer of epic fantasy with ten novels and a collection of short stories to his name. As MLN Hanover, he writes The Black Sun's Daughter urban fantasy series set in the contemporary world. And when he is James S. A. Corey, he writes in collaboration with Ty Franck to make the science fiction series The Expanse. Daniel has also adapted several of George RR Martin's works into graphic novels, including the New York Times bestselling adaptations of A Game of Thrones. He has published 23 novels and over 40 short stories. When he is not writing, he spends his time writing.

http://www.danielabraham.com/






CJ Carmichael

CJ Carmichael
CJ Carmichael

Hard to imagine a more glamorous life than being an accountant. Still, C.J. Carmichael gave up the thrills of income tax forms and double entry book-keeping when she sold her first book in 1998. She's now written more than 40 novels--2 of which have been nominated by Romance Writers of America for their prestigious RITA award.

When not writing, C.J. loves to be out hiking, cross-country skiing or biking around Calgary, where she lives, or Flathead Lake, Montana, where she has a cottage. Her partner Mike shares these interests with her. They also love to play cribbage and Scrabble. If a glass of wine is on the table, so much the better!

http://cjcarmichael.com/






Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon is the author of the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, described by Salon Magazine as "the smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D. with a background in scripting Scrooge McDuck comics."

The adventure began in 1991 with the best-selling classic, Outlander, and has continued through seven more NYT best-selling novels — Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, and An Echo in the Bone, with twenty-five million copies of her works in print worldwide. The eighth novel in the series, Written in my Own Heart’s Blood, was published in March of 2014.

Ms. Gabaldon’s successful writing career has been fruitful in different ways. She has written a spin-off series of mysteries featuring Lord John Grey, one of the characters in the Outlander world, created a graphic novel (illustrated story) titled The Exile set within the original storyline of Outlander, as well as publishing The Outlandish Companion, a non-fiction companion to her work which provides details on the settings, background, characters, research and writing of novels in general. A second volume of the Companion is in progress, and will be released October 27, 2015 in the US.

Gabaldon’s popular writing style and memorable characters have been noticed by the Hollywood set as well. The Outlander books were picked up by Sony Television for production as a cable television series on the Starz network (Showcase in Canada). The first half of the sixteen episode season was released last fall with the final episodes to be aired starting in April of this year. Long-time television writer and producer Ronald D. Moore (Star Trek: the Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Battlestar Galactica) and his production company, Tall Ships Productions, is heading this long-anticipated project and has vowed to create a faithful depiction of this beloved story.

Diana Gabaldon and her husband, Doug Watkins, have three adult children (all intelligent, funny, and self-supporting), two fat dachshunds, live mostly in Scottsdale, Arizona.

You can find Diana at: www.dianagabaldon.com






Sally Harding

Sally Harding
Sally Harding

Sally Harding is a literary agent and co-owner of the Cooke Agency and Cooke International. She represents authors from all over the world, with more than half of her clients calling the US home or their primary publishing market. She is currently growing her list in the areas of smart, ground-breaking non-fiction; and mainstream and literary-leaning science fiction, fantasy, and crime. She also has a fondness for children's books, especially middle-grade fiction. She is on the board of the Vancouver Writers' Fest, and is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives.






Faith Hunter

Faith Hunter
Faith Hunter

New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter writes dark urban fantasy and paranormal urban thrillers.

Her long-running, bestselling, Skinwalker series features Jane Yellowrock, a hunter of rogue-vampires. Her Rogue Mage novels, a dark, urban fantasy series features Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic, alternate reality. She has a new paranormal crime solving series featuring Nell Nicholson Ingram, who can siphon away the magic of others, to be released in late 2015.

Under the pen name Gwen Hunter, she has written action adventure, mysteries, thrillers, women’s fiction, a medical thriller series, and even historical religious fiction. As Gwen, she is a winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for Fresh Talent in 1995 in the UK, and won a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award in 2008. Under all her pen names, she has over 30 books in print in 29 countries.

Faith Hunter writes full-time, and is a workaholic with a passion for jewelry making, white-water kayaking, travel, all which appear in and are used in her novels. She gave up cooking for lent one year and the oven stayed turned off for so long that it refused to come back on and had to be replaced, but she is having a hankering for homemade bread, and is considering getting back to baking in her remodeled kitchen. Occasionally, she remembers to sleep. The jewelry she makes and wears is often given as promo items to fans who come to her signings, and is used as prizes in contests. She and her husband love to RV, traveling with their rescued Pomeranians to whitewater rivers all over the Southeast. (The poms don’t whitewater. The pampered dogs stay in the RV in lazy, air-conditioned comfort!)

Faith is a founding member of MagicalWords, a writing forum at www.magicalwords.net geared to helping writers of fantasy and other genres.

For more, including a list of her books, see www.faithhunter.net , www.gwenhunter.com and www.magicalwords.net. To keep with her, join her fan pages at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/official.faith.hunter.






Brandon Mull

Brandon Mull
Brandon Mull

Brandon Mull is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series. Sky Raiders, the first in Brandon's new Five Kingdoms series, debuted in 2014 as his tenth New York Times bestseller. Brandon also served as the architect for Scholastic's Spirit Animals series, outlining the seven books, and writing the first. His novels are published in over 30 languages.

The Chronicles of Narnia helped Brandon develop his love of reading, the Lord of the Rings showed him how deeply imagined a fantasy world could be, and the Harry Potter series proved to him that a novel with young main characters could delight readers young and old if it is smart and inventive. Brandon currently lives in Utah with his wife and four kids.

http://brandonmull.com/site/