Laurell K. Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer, best known for her Anita Blake series. Born Laurell Kaye Klein, Laurell K. Hamilton grew up in northern Indiana with her grandmother. She attended Marion College (now called Indiana Wesleyan University) where she received degrees in English and biology. She published her first book Nightseer…
American novelist, Linda Castillo started her literary career writing romance and romantic suspense novels, but she’s mostly known today for the successful Kate Burkholder series. Crime thrillers that are set in Amish country, those novels are about Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as Chief of Police. Linda Castillo’s other passion is…
Lars Kepler is not one author, it’s the pseudonym used by husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril. They are Swedish and write crime fiction. More precisely, “Lars Kepler” is the writer of the Joona Linna Series (aka Killer Instinct) that follows the investigations led by Joona Linna, Detective Superintendent at the…
Joanne Fluke is the most famous pen name of Joanne Fischmann, born Gibson in 1943 in Swanvill, Minnesota. She comes from a long line of bakers, so it’s no surprise she has been baking since she was a child and has created a book series where food is important. Fluke started writing young adult horror…
Does James Patterson need an introduction? His books have sold more than 400 million copies, and he was the first person to sell 1 million e-books. As he was working in advertising, he started to write books and published his first novel, “The Thomas Berryman Number”, in 1976. Since then, he wrote more than 200…
A trained actress, Lynda La Plante started her professional life on the stage and soon appeared on TV in popular series, but she also wrote screenplays. After the success the Widows series, she became a popular crime writer. She didn’t stop working for television as she created Prime Suspect in 1991, a series that became…
Joseph Edward Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer born in Lancaster. He studied psychology and worked at a television company making tea before taking up a career as a freelance film editor. It was during that time that Joe Abercrombie thought again about writing — he tried while at University but it didn’t go well….
Alice Oseman is an award-winning English author known for her work in the young adult fiction genre. Her debut novel Solitaire was published by HarperCollins in 2014, when she was only 17 years old. Since then, Oseman wrote multiple novels and novellas but also wrote and illustrated the webcomic Heartstopper (later collected as graphic novels)….
Stuart Woods was a prolific author who was best known for his first novel Chiefs and his series of novels focus on Stone Barrington, a former NYPD detective turned lawyer. He died on July 22, 2022, at the age of 84. After having moved to London, still working in advertising, at the end of the…
Wilbur Addison Smith (1933-2021) was a Zambian-born British-South African author famous for his best-selling historical novels. This accountant by training became a full-time writer after he gained a film contract with his first published novel. Initially, Wilbur Smith wanted to become a journalist but his father dissuaded him and convinced him to find ‘a real…
Born on 19 May 1981, Kiera Cass is an American writer of young adult fiction. A graduate of Radford University with a B.S. in History, her first book, The Selection, was published in 2012 by HarperTeen. The Selection became a very popular young adult series composed of five full-length novels and multiple short stories. Kiera…
Adam Silvera is an American author of young adult fiction novels who started writing at a young age and quickly found his place in the publishing industry. Before finding success with his books, he worked as a children’s bookseller, community manager at a content development company, and book reviewer of children’s and young adult novels….
