Matthew J. Kirby went to three different elementary schools and three different high schools. This was not his choice. His father was in the Navy. But he loved each of the places he lived for different reasons. He is colorblind, and owns several instruments he does not play, but wishesRead More →

M. T. Anderson, author of books ranging from comic fantasy adventure to Gothic historical fiction, has just purchased a haunted house very cheaply. What could go wrong? In the past, he has journeyed into the Taklamakan Desert with friends to find the ruins of an ancient temple to a ratRead More →

Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead girls and evil dolls, much to her teachers’ dismay. All efforts to make her produce “normal” stories failed. Today,Read More →

Don Calame is an author, screenwriter and amateur dog trainer. He has managed to teach his dogs to sit, stay, lie down, do a figure 8, play dead, and jump over hurdles. He is currently working on teaching his dogs how to do his wash and clean his bathroom. WhenRead More →

Completely normal and random and true facts about Rose: She suffers from spontaneous laughter syndrome, often triggered from a joke told several days earlier. And sometimes she snorts. But let’s not talk about that. Actually, let’s forget that was ever mentioned, ok? For as long as she can remember, peopleRead More →

I can pick locks, make rubber bands pass through each other, and perform the most astounding feat of finger-magic you have ever seen. http://craphound.com/ 2017 Workshop: Inspiration Sucks Writing through inspiration sucks: it’s a recipe to make you miserable as you wait for the inspiration to strike. Writer’s block is noRead More →

Hi! I’m Dan Gemeinhart. I’m way taller than I need to be, but it comes in handy when a bird poops on my head (which happened to me at lunch in high school…I was tall enough to just stand straight and no one could see it. I rushed to theRead More →

Jessica Day George lives outside of Salt Lake City with her husband, three children, and a fluffy white dog. She got so jealous when she enrolled her two oldest kids in Irish dance that she started taking lessons, too. Even though she’s older than the teacher, and only okay atRead More →