Garth Richard Nix is an Australian and best-selling author writing in the fantasy genre, specializing in children and young adults. Though he has been a published author since the 1990s, he became a full-time writer in 2001. Now, his books have been sold around the world and have been translated into 42 languages. According to…
New York Times Best-Selling Author, Charlaine Harris is a writer who specializes in mysteries, often with an urban fantasy twist, and who got especially famous after her Southern Vampire Mysteries series was adapted for TV (on HBO!) under the title True Blood. Another famous series by Charlaine Harris adapted this time for the Hallmark Channel…
Written by Irish playwright Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant is a series of horror/comedy/fantasy novels following the adventures of an undead sorcerer and detective and his partner. This is the story of the 400-year-old detective named Skulduggery Pleasant who is a walking and talking skeleton, and his partner Stephanie Edgley who goes by the name Valkyrie…
Ilona Andrews is the pen name used by Ilona Gordon and her husband Andrew Gordon write urban fantasy and romantic fiction together. Ilona was born in Russia in 1976 and came to the United States as a teenager. She studied at Western Carolina University, where she majored in biochemistry. It was in college, in English…
A Court of Thorns and Roses (abbreviated to ACOTAR) is a romance fantasy series written by Sarah J. Maas, inspired by multiple fairy tales including the Beauty and the Beast and the tale of Tam Lin, but also Greek myths like Hades and Persephone. The story follows Feyre, a huntress who thinks the skin of…
Jodi Taylor is an English writer of fantasy-historical and romance novels, known for The Chronicles of St Mary’s series, about a group of historians who investigate major historical events. Jodi Taylor worked for almost 20 years for North Yorkshire County Council, occupying different positions like Facilities Manager for the Library Service. She self-published her first…
Brandon Mull is a #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Fablehaven, Beyonders, and Five Kingdoms series. Born in 1974, he did several jobs before becoming a full-time writer: he worked as a comedian, a filing clerk, a patio installer, a movie promoter, a copywriter, and briefly as a chicken stacker. Mull dreamed of…
Written by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold (The Vorkosigan Saga), World of the Five Gods is a fantasy series, previously named the Chalion series. As the series expanded, the title was changed. It is a series of shared universe stories, with a sub-series titled Penric and Desdemona. The World of the Five Gods series explores…
Written by American fantasy and science fiction author Maria V. Snyder, The Chronicles of Ixia is comprised of three series (Study Series, Glass Series, Soulfinder Series) and five short stories. The story takes place in the territory of Ixia, where the government maintains control through the Code of Behaviour, forbidding the practice of magic. Yelena…
Coming from the American writer Brent Weeks (Lightbringer), the Night Angel series is a Fantasy series, more of a trilogy in fact, but there’s a sequel and a prequel, so it is still developing. The story is set on the continent of Midcyru, mainly in the country of Cenaria and in its capital city which…
Born November 17, 1983, in Los Angeles, California, U.S, Christopher Paolini is an American author, best known for The Inheritance Cycle. In 2011, the Guinness World Records recognized him as the “youngest author of a bestselling book series.” Homeschooled by his parents, Christopher was fifteen when he wrote the first draft of Eragon, and the…
Born Eleanor Marie Robertson in 1950, Nora Roberts is an American author of more than 200 romance novels. She also writes the romantic suspense series In Death under the pen name J.D. Robb. She has also published books under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. as Sarah Hardesty. Before becoming a…
