Authors
Samantha Clark
Samantha M Clark is the award-winning author of THE BOY, THE BOAT, AND THE BEAST and ARROW (both published by Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster) and AMERICAN HORSE TALES: HOLLYWOOD (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House), as well as the GEMSTONE DRAGONS chapter book series (Bloomsbury). She lives with her husband and two funny dogs in Austin, Texas, and helps other writers through her Your Writing Mentor newsletter. Sign up for news and giveaways at www.SamanthaMClark.com. Follow her on BlueSky @samanthamclark, Twitter @samclarkwrites, Instagram @samanthamclarkbooks, Facebook at SamanthaMClarkAuthor, and Pinterest at SamClarkWrites.
Jessica Lee Anderson
Jessica Lee Anderson is an award-winning author of over fifty books for kids including her latest Naomi Nash chapter book series from Capstone/Picture Window Books: Saving Snakes, The Mystery of the Ball Python, The Drama Noodle, and Problems at the Pond. She’s published fiction and nonfiction with publishers such as Scholastic, Milkweed Editions (winner of the Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature), Rourke Educational Media, Heinemann, Pearson, and a variety of magazines including Highlights for Children and Highlights High Five. Jessica graduated from Hollins University with a Master of Arts in Children’s Literature, and she previously taught at St. Edward’s University. She lives near Austin, Texas with her husband, daughter, and toothless rat terrier.
Janet Harvey
Janet Harvey is an award-winning writer of comic books, movies and games. As a comic book creator, she wrote the YALSA finalist Angel City for Oni Press,The Curie Society from MIT Press, and the first adventure of Cassandra Cain in No Man’s Land for DC Comics. As a game writer, she was the staff writer on the DC Universe Online MMORPG. Her feature film debut, A Million Hits, screened at festivals around the world and was distributed by Summer Hill Films.
Her current project is a YA graphic novel being developed in collaboration with Angel City illustrator Megan Levens.
Mari Mancusi
Mari Mancusi is an Emmy award winning former TV news producer and author of more than thirty sci-fi/fantasy books for kids, teens and adults. Her dragon apocalypse series, New Dragon City, is on the 24/25 Texas Bluebonnet State Reading List as well as the Florida Sunshine State reading list. It was also named by Reader's Digest as one of the top 100 children's books for all time. In addition, Mari writes tie-in novels for Disney properties including Frozen and the NYT Bestselling series "Twisted Tales." She has a Nightmare Before Christmas Twisted Tale being released this fall. In addition to writing, Mari is an avid cosplayer, horror fan, and MMORPG gamer. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and their young daughter.