Welcome to the Read For Pixels “Meet The Authors” section where you can learn more about the 35 award-winning bestselling authors who will be taking part in the 10th anniversary of the Read For Pixels campaign. They are listed in alphabetical order below according to the events that they will be participating in:
- New Read For Pixels Author Readings + Q&As sessions
- 10th Anniversary Read For Pixels Panel Sessions with Read For Pixels alumni
- 10th Anniversary AMA series with r/Fantasy and r/RomanceBooks
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The Read For Pixels Fall Edition 2023 New Author Reading + Q&A Sessions
C.S.E. Cooney & Carlos Hernandez
C.S.E. COONEY
C. S. E. COONEY (she/her) is a World Fantasy Award-winning author. Her books include Saint Death’s Daughter (on Kirkus Review’s list of Year’s Science Fiction and Best Fantasy 2022), Dark Breakers, Desdemona and the Deep, and Bone Swans: Stories, as well as the poetry collection How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes, which includes her Rhysling Award-winning poem “The Sea King’s Second Bride.”
CARLOS HERNANDEZ
CARLOS HERNANDEZ is the award-winning, NYT bestselling author of Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria, and many shorter works of SFF. He’s also an English Professor and game designer. Find him on socials @writeteachplay.
C.S.E. and Carlos will be doing a live reading and Q&A for their Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 1st, 2023 (Friday).
Learn more about C.S.E and Carlos at https://hernandooney.com/. You can keep up with C.S.E. and Carlos on Facebook as follows:
Chloe Neill
CHLOE NEILL is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Captain Kit Brightling, Heirs of Chicagoland, Chicagoland Vampires, Devil’s Isle, and Dark Elite novels. She was born and raised in the South, but now makes her home in the Midwest, where she lives with her gamer husband and their bosses/dogs, Baxter and Scout. Chloe is a voracious reader and obsessive Maker of Things; the crafting rotation currently involves baking and quilting. She believes she is exceedingly witty; her husband has been known to disagree.
Chloe will be doing a live reading and Q&A for her Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 23rd, 2023 (Saturday).
Learn more about Chloe at http://www.chloeneill.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/authorchloeneill
Cynthia Pelayo
CYNTHIA “CINA” PELAYO is an International Latino Book Award winning and three-time Bram Stoker Awards® nominated poet and author. She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, and Poems of My Night, all of which have been nominated for International Latino Book Awards. Poems of My Night was also nominated for an Elgin Award. Her recent collection of poetry, Into The Forest and All The Way Through explores true crime, that of the epidemic of missing and murdered women in the United States, and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and Elgin Award. Her modern-day horror retelling of the Pied Piper fairy tale, Children of Chicago won an International Latino Book Award for Best Mystery (2021).
Cynthia will be doing a live reading and Q&A for her Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 16th, 2023 (Saturday).
Learn more about Cynthia at http://www.cinapelayo.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @cynthiapelayoauthor.
Emily X.R. Pan
EMILY X.R. PAN lives on Lenape land in Brooklyn, New York, but was originally born in the Midwestern United States to immigrant parents from Taiwan. Her debut novel, The Astonishing Color of After, was a New York Times bestseller, winner of the APALA Honor and Walter Honor awards, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and featured on over a dozen best-of-the-year lists. She received her MFA in fiction from the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow and editor-in-chief of Washington Square. She was the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, and went on to co-create the FORESHADOW platform and anthology. An Arrow to the Moon is her second novel.
Emily will be doing a live reading and Q&A for her Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 8th, 2023 (Friday).
Learn more about Emily at https://exrpan.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @exrpan
P. Djeli Clark
PHENDERSON DJELI CLARK is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn, and the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His short stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots and Hidden Youth.
Phenderson will be doing a live reading and Q&A for his Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 24th, 2023 (Sunday).
Learn more about Phenderson at https://pdjeliclark.com/. You can follow him on Instagram at @pdjeliclark
Sylvain Neuvel
SYLVAIN NEUVEL dropped out of high school at age 15. Along the way, he has been a journalist, worked in soil decontamination, sold ice cream in California, and furniture across Canada. He received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago. He taught linguistics in India, and worked as a software engineer in Montreal. He is also a certified translator, though he wishes he were an astronaut. He writes about aliens and giant robots as a blatant excuse to build action figures (for his son, of course). His debut, Sleeping Giants, was described by NPR as “one of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory.”
Sylvain will be doing a live reading and Q&A for his Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 17th 2023 (Sunday).
Learn more about Sylvain at http://neuvel.net/. You can follow him on Instagram at @sylvainneuvel
The Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary Panel Sessions 2023
The Pixel Project will be holding 6 special author panel sessions live on YouTube in September 2023 as part of the 10th Anniversary of the Read For Pixels campaign. Please see below for further details and mark your calendars!
Imagining Better Worlds: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Speculative Fiction
In our 16th Read For Pixels livestream session, “Imagining Better Worlds: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Speculative Fiction”, acclaimed Speculative Fiction authors Jim C. Hines, Martha Wells, and Mary Robinette Kowal will be discussing if and how speculative fiction novels and stories as well as attitudes in the speculative fiction community have changed over the past 10 years towards sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. They will also be answering questions live from the audience about this topic and their books.
This panel session will be held live on YouTube at 8.30pm ET, September 2nd 2023 (Saturday).
Jim C. Hines
JIM C. HINES is the author of the Magic ex Libris series, the Princess series of fairy tale retellings, the humorous Goblin Quest trilogy, and the Fable Legends tie-in Blood of Heroes. He also won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. His latest novel is Terminal Peace, book three in the humorous science fiction Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse trilogy. He lives in mid-Michigan with his family.
Learn more about Jim at https://www.jimchines.com/. You can follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jimhines
Mary Robinette Kowal
MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL is the author of The Spare Man, Ghost Talkers, The Glamourist Histories series, and the Lady Astronaut Universe. She is part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and a four-time Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Tor.com, and Asimov’s. Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, lives in Nashville.
Learn more about Mimi at https://maryrobinettekowal.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/maryrobinettekowal/
Martha Wells
MARTHA WELLS has been a science fiction and fantasy author since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993. Her New York Times Bestselling series The Murderbot Diaries has won Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, and an American Library Association/YALSA Alex Award. Her work also includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, and several other fantasy novels, most recently Witch King, as well as short fiction, non-fiction, and media tie-ins.
Learn more about Martha at https://www.marthawells.com/.
“We Are Not Things”: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy
In our 17th Read For Pixels YouTube Livestream session Panel Session, “We Are Not Things: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy”, acclaimed SFF authors Jasper Fforde, Jen Williams, and Samantha Shannon.will be discussing if and how speculative fiction novels and stories as well as attitudes in the Science Fiction and Fantasy community have changed over the past 10 years towards sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. They will also be answering questions live from the audience about this topic and their books.
The session will be held live on YouTube at 3.30pm UK Time / 10.30am ET, September 2nd 2023 (Sunday).
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde has been writing in the Comedy/Fantasy Genre since 2001 when his novel The Eyre Affair debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list. Red Side Story, to be published in February 2024, is his 17th novel and he counts his sales in millions. He lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales.
Learn more about Jasper at https://www.jasperfforde.com/. You can follow him on Instagram at @jasperfforde
Jen Williams
Jen Williams is an award-winning author from London. Her Copper Cat and Winnowing Flame trilogies have been nominated for British Fantasy awards several times, with The Ninth Rain and The Bitter Twins each winning the Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Her debut crime novel Dog Rose Dirt was published in 2021, and Jen has two new novels out in 2023: Talonsister, a return to fantasy published by Titan, and Games for Dead Girls, a true crime inspired horror novel, published by HarperVoyager. She’s also partly responsible for the creation of the Super Relaxed Fantasy Club and is partial to mead, if you’re buying.
Learn more about Jen Williams at https://www.sennydreadful.co.uk/. You can follow her on Instagram at @sennydreadful19
Samantha Shannon
SAMANTHA SHANNON is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Bone Season series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. Her fourth novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree, was her first outside of The Bone Season series and was a New York Times bestseller, as was its standalone prequel, A Day of Fallen Night, released in 2023. She lives in London.
You can follow her on Instagram at @say_shannon
The #MeToo Puzzle: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in the Mystery/Crime Genre
In our 18th Read For Pixels YouTube Livestream session Panel Session, “The #MeToo Puzzle: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in the Mystery/Crime Genre”, acclaimed Mystery/Crime authors Dana Cameron, Meg Gardiner, and SJ Rozan will discussing be if and how Mystery/Crime novels and stories as well as attitudes in the Mystery/Crime fiction community have changed over the past 10 years towards sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. They will also be answering questions live from the audience about this topic and their books.
The session will be held live on YouTube at 8.30pm ET, September 9th 2023 (Saturday)
Dana Cameron
DANA CAMERON writes across many genres, but especially crime and speculative fiction. Her work, inspired by her career in archaeology, has won multiple Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity Awards, and has been nominated for the Edgar Award. Dana’s Emma Fielding archaeology mysteries appear on Hallmark’s Movies & Mysteries Channel. Her latest book is a thriller: Exit Interview (an a.k.a. Jayne novel) is available now. When she’s not traveling or visiting museums, she’s usually spinning, weaving, and yelling at the TV about historical inaccuracies.
Learn more about Dana at https://www.danacameron.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/dana.cameron
Meg Gardiner
MEG GARDINER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels. Her thrillers have won the Edgar Award and been summer reading picks by The Today Show and O, the Oprah magazine. Called “Hitchcockian” (USA Today) and “nailbiting and moving” (Guardian), her books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
Learn more about Meg at http://meggardiner.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MegGardinerBooks
SJ Rozan
SJ ROZAN is the author of eighteen novels and over seventy short stories, and editor of two anthologies. She has won multiple awards, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, Macavity; Japanese Maltese Falcon; and the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award. In 2023, she won the Anthony Award for the latest Crime anthology she edited, CRIME HITS HOME.
Learn more about SJ at http://sjrozan.net/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSJRozan
No More Heartbreak: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Romance
In our 19th Read For Pixels YouTube Livestream session Panel Session, “No More Heartbreak: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Romance”, acclaimed Romance authors Maya Rodale, Mimi Matthews, and Sonali Dev will discussing if and how Romance novels and stories as well as attitudes in the Romance community have changed over the past 10 years towards sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. They will also be answering questions live from the audience about this topic and their books.
The session will be held live on YouTube at 8.30pm ET, September 15th 2023 (Friday).
Leanna Renee Hieber
Award-winning, bestselling author LEANNA RENEE HIEBER writes historical fantasy novels for Tor and Kensington Books such as the Strangely Beautiful saga, The Eterna Files trilogy and The Spectral City series. A 4-time Prism Award winner for excellence in the genre of Fantasy Romance, Leanna’s short stories have been featured in notable anthologies and her books have been selected for national book club editions as well as translated into many languages. A classically trained actress featured in film and television, Leanna created and tours a one-woman show portraying nineteenth-century designer Clara Driscoll.
Learn more about Leanna at https://www.leannareneehieber.com/. You can follow her on Twitter at @Leannarenee
Maya Rodale
MAYA RODALE is the best-selling and award-winning author of funny, feminist fiction including historical romance, YA and historical fiction. A champion of the romance genre and its readers, she is also the author of Dangerous Books For Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels, Explained. Maya has reviewed romance for NPR Books and has appeared in Bustle, Glamour, Shondaland, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post and PBS. She began reading romance novels in college at her mother’s insistence and has never been allowed to forget it.
Learn more about Maya at https://www.mayarodale.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @mayarodale
Sonali Dev
SONALI DEV is a USA Today bestselling author who writes stories Mindy Kaling calls “hilarious and heartwarming.” Her novels have been named Best Books of the Year by Library Journal, NPR, the Washington Post, Kirkus, Buzzfeed, and PopSugar. She has won numerous accolades, including the American Library Association’s award for best romance, the RT Reviewer Choice Award, multiple RT Seals of Excellence, has been a RITA® finalist, and has been listed for the Dublin Literary Award. She lives in Chicagoland with her husband, two visiting adult children, and the world’s most perfect dog.
Learn more about Sonali at www.sonalidev.com. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SonaliDev.author
The Kids Are All Right: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Young Adult Books
In our 20th Read For Pixels YouTube Livestream session Panel Session, “The Kids Are All Right: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Young Adult Books”, acclaimed YA Fantasy authors Alison Goodman, PC Cast, and Sebastien de Castell will discussing if and how YA novels and stories as well as attitudes in the Romance community have changed over the past 10 years towards sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. They will also be answering questions live from the audience about this topic and their books.
The session will be held live on YouTube at 6.00pm PT, September 22nd 2023 (Friday).
Alison Goodman
ALISON GOODMAN is a Melbourne based author of fantasy and historical fiction. She is the author of seven novels including the award-winning Lady Helen trilogy and EON and EONA, a New York Times bestselling fantasy duology published in 20 countries. Alison has recently completed her PhD focusing on historical research and the Regency era and can dance a mean contra-dance. She will travel a long way for a good high tea.
Learn more about Alison at https://www.alisongoodman.com.au/. You can follow her on Instagram at @alisongoodmanauthor
PC Cast
#1 NYT & #1 USA Today bestselling author, PC CAST was born in the Midwest, and, after her tour in the USAF, she taught high school for 15 years before retiring to write full time. PC is a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious: Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, Booksellers’ Best, and many, many more. Ms. Cast is an experienced teacher and talented speaker who lives in Oregon near her fabulous daughter, her adorable pack of dogs, her crazy Maine Coon, and a bunch of horses.
Learn more about PC at https://www.pccastauthor.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pccastauthor/
Sebastien de Castell
SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL’S acclaimed swashbuckling fantasy series, The Greatcoats was shortlisted for both the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. His YA fantasy series, Spellslinger, is published in more than a dozen languages. He spends his time writing, travelling, and going on strange adventures.
Learn more about Sebastien at https://decastell.com/. You can follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SebastienDeCastell
Tackling the Terrors of #MeToo: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Horror
In our 21st Read For Pixels YouTube Livestream session Panel Session, “Tackling the Terrors of #MeToo: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Horror”, acclaimed Horror authors Angela Yuriko Smith, Linda D. Addison, and Paul Tremblay will discussing if and how Romance novels and stories as well as attitudes in the Horror community have changed over the past 10 years towards sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. They will also be answering questions live from the audience about this topic and their books.
The session will be held live on YouTube at 8.30pm ET, September 29th 2023 (Friday).
Angela Yuriko Smith
ANGELA YURIKO SMITH is an American poet, Stoker-nominated author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Join our Flash Battle leagues, compete as an Iron Writer and help raise an Exquisite Corpse at SpaceandTime.net.
Learn more about Angela at http://angelaysmith.com. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Angela.Yuriko.Smiths/
Paul Tremblay
PAUL TREMBLAY has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, A Head Full of Ghosts, and other novels and collections. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.
Learn more about Paul at https://www.paultremblay.net/. You can follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/paul.tremblay
Linda D. Addison
LINDA D. ADDISON, award-winning author of five collections, including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, is the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®, received the HWA Mentor of the Year Award and the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. Addison is a co-editor of Sycorax’s Daughters, an anthology of horror fiction/poetry by African-American women.
Learn more about Linda at https://www.lindaaddisonwriter.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/linda.d.addison
The Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA Series
The Pixel Project is also proud to present 15 special AMAs sessions on r/Fantasy (for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror authors) and r/RomanceBooks (for Romance authors) in August and September 2023 as part of the 10th Anniversary of the Read For Pixels campaign. The AMA sessions on r/Fantasy are also held to mark the 10th year of our long-running partnership with r/Fantasy.
Due to the “just in time” nature of AMAs (which are posted the day of the event), please visit the sub-reddit (r/Fantasy or r/RomanceBooks) stated under the bios of participating Read For Pixels authors below after 10am U.S. Eastern Time on the day of the event to leave your questions for the author of the day.
Anna Smith Spark
ANNA SMITH SPARK is the author of the Empires of Dust grimdark epic fantasy series The Court of Broken Knives, The Tower of Living and Dying and The House of Sacrifice; the standalone A Woman of the Sword; and A Sword of Bronze and Ashes, book one of her new folk horror high fantasy series The Remaking of This World Ruined. Her work has been described as ‘a masterwork’ by Nightmarish Conjurings, and ‘extraordinary’ by Spells and Spaceships. Dyslexic, dyspraxic, ASD, PhD.
Anna will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on September 21st 2023 (Thursday).
Learn more about Anna at https://www.courtofbrokenknives.net/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/anna.smithspark/
Anne Bishop
ANNE BISHOP is a New York Times award-winning author of the Novels of the Others and the Black Jewels series. When she’s not writing, Anne enjoys gardening and reading–and pondering how to get her imaginary friends into more trouble. Her most recent novel is The Queen’s Price.
Anne will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on August 29th 2023 (Tuesday).
Learn more about Anne at https://www.annebishop.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DarkRealms
Carrie Vaughn
CARRIE VAUGHN’S work includes the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times Bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her most recent novel, Questland, is about a high-tech LARP that goes horribly wrong and the literature professor who has to save the day. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado.
Carrie will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on September 12th 2023 (Tuesday).
Learn more about Carrie at https://www.carrievaughn.com/.
Charlaine Harris
A native of the Mississippi Delta, Charlaine Harris has lived her whole life in various southern states. Her first book, a mystery, was published in 1981. After that promising debut, her career meandered along until the success of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Now all her books are in print, and she is a very happy camper. She is married and has three children.
Charlaine will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on September 7th 2023 (Thursday).
Learn more about Charlaine at https://charlaineharris.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CharlaineHarris
Jim C. Hines
JIM C. HINES is the author of the Magic ex Libris series, the Princess series of fairy tale retellings, the humorous Goblin Quest trilogy, and the Fable Legends tie-in Blood of Heroes. He also won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. His latest novel is Terminal Peace, book three in the humorous science fiction Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse trilogy. He lives in mid-Michigan with his family.
Jim will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on August 17th 2023 (Thursday).
Learn more about Jim at https://www.jimchines.com/. You can follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jimhines
Julie E. Czerneda
Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author/editor JULIE E. CZERNEDA was inducted into the CSFFA Hall of Fame in 2022. Published by DAW Books, NY, her latest release is standalone science fiction novel To Each This World. Julie is represented by Sara Megibow of KT Literary.
Julie will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on September 14th 2023 (Thursday).
Learn more about Julie at https://czerneda.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/julie.czerneda
Juliet Marillier
JULIET MARILLIER was born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now lives in Western Australia. Her historical fantasy novels and short stories are published internationally and have won numerous awards. She is the author of twenty-four novels and two collections of short fiction. Her most recent series is Warrior Bards. Juliet loves mythology, folklore and strong, complex characters. When not writing, Juliet is kept busy by a small crew of rescue dogs.
Juliet will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on September 26th 2023 (Tuesday).
Learn more about Juliet at https://www.julietmarillier.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/juliet.marillier
Kendare Blake
KENDARE BLAKE is the #1 NYT Bestselliing author of Three Dark Crowns, Anna Dressed in Blood, and more. Among her recent novels are the Buffy: The Next Generation trilogy, set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Champion of Fate, a fantasy about a mysterious order of female warriors.
Kendare will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on August 22nd 2023 (Tuesday).
Learn more about Kendare at https://www.kendareblake.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @kendareblake
Lee Murray
LEE MURRAY is a multi-award-winning author-editor from Aotearoa-New Zealand. Her work includes military thrillers, the Taine McKenna Adventures, supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra (with Dan Rabarts), and debut collection Grotesque: Monster Stories. She is proud to have co-edited Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women with Geneve Flynn.
Lee will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on September 19th 2023 (Tuesday).
Learn more about Lee at https://www.leemurray.info/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/lee.murray.393/
Marie Brennan
MARIE BRENNAN is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors’ hard work to The Game of 100 Candles and the short novel Driftwood. As half of M.A. Carrick, she is also the author of the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy, beginning with The Mask of Mirrors.
Marie will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on September 28th 2023 (Thursday).
Learn more about Marie at https://www.swantower.com/.
Mary Robinette Kowal
MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL is the author of The Spare Man, Ghost Talkers, The Glamourist Histories series, and the Lady Astronaut Universe. She is part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and a four-time Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Tor.com, and Asimov’s. Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, lives in Nashville.
Mary will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on August 23rd 2023 (Wednesday).
Learn more about Mary at https://maryrobinettekowal.com/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/maryrobinettekowal/
Maya Rodale
MAYA RODALE is the best-selling and award-winning author of funny, feminist fiction including historical romance, YA and historical fiction. A champion of the romance genre and its readers, she is also the author of Dangerous Books For Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels, Explained. Maya has reviewed romance for NPR Books and has appeared in Bustle, Glamour, Shondaland, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post and PBS. She began reading romance novels in college at her mother’s insistence and has never been allowed to forget it.
Maya will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/RomanceBooks on August 30th 2023 (Wednesday).
Learn more about Maya at https://www.mayarodale.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @mayarodale
P. Djeli Clark
PHENDERSON DJELI CLARK is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn, and the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His short stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots and Hidden Youth.
Phenderson will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on August 21st 2023 (Monday).
Learn more about Phenderson at https://pdjeliclark.com/. You can follow him on Instagram at @pdjeliclark
RJ Barker
RJ Barker is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of fantasy fiction. He won the 2020 British Fantasy Society (BFS) Robert Holdstock award for Best Novel for his fourth novel, The Bone Ships. RJ lives in Leeds with his wife, son and a collection of questionable taxidermy, odd art, scary music and more books than they have room for. He grew up reading whatever he could get his hands on, and has always been ‘that one with the book in his pocket.’ Having played in rock bands before deciding he was a rubbish musician, RJ returned to his first love, fiction.
RJ will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on September 5th 2023 (Tuesday).
Learn more about RJ at https://www.rjbarker.com/. You can follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thatRJBarker
Sylvain Neuvel
SYLVAIN NEUVEL dropped out of high school at age 15. Along the way, he has been a journalist, worked in soil decontamination, sold ice cream in California, and furniture across Canada. He received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago. He taught linguistics in India, and worked as a software engineer in Montreal. He is also a certified translator, though he wishes he were an astronaut. He writes about aliens and giant robots as a blatant excuse to build action figures (for his son, of course). His debut, Sleeping Giants, was described by NPR as “one of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory.”
Sylvain will be doing a special Read For Pixels 10th Anniversary AMA session on r/Fantasy on August 28th 2023 (Monday).
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