Kami Garcia
Kami Garcia a #1 New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-nominated young adult author of 12 novels and graphic novels, she has been published in 51 countries and 38 languages and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
Kami’s best known works include the Beautiful Creatures series, Teen Titans: Raven, The X-Files: Agent of Chaos, The Lovely Reckless, Broken Beautiful Hearts, and the DC Black Label comic Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity. She is also a cofounder of the Kid Lit book festival YALLFest and co-organizer of #Creators4Comics.
Learn more about Kami at kamigarcia.com and follow her on Instagram and Twitter @kamigarcia.
Alys Arden
Alys Arden was raised by the street performers, tea leaf-readers, and glittering drag queens of the New Orleans French Quarter. She cut her teeth on the streets of New York and has worked as a brand strategy consultant all around the world since. The Casquette Girls, her debut novel, garnered over one million reads online before it was acquired (Skyscape). The fifth book in the series, The Immortal St. Germain, is due out in 2023. Her debut graphic novel, Zatanna: The Jewel of Gravesend (DC Comics) was chosen by the NYPL as a best book of 2022.
In addition to writing books, Alys tells stories, crafts award-winning strategies, and builds fandoms for a spectrum of Fortune 100 companies, global brands, and entertainment properties. Some of her favorite clients/projects have included: Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse), The Sopranos, Entourage, The Wire, Treme (HBO), Broad City (Comedy Central), Crimson Peak (Legendary Pictures), The Walking Dead, Preacher, Better Call Saul, (AMC Network), Google, Yahoo!, Pepsi, Gatorade, Estée Lauder, and the Blue Man Group.
Find her elsewhere online: Instagram, TikTiok, Facebook Group, Newsletter.