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A native of Long Island, New York, Mark Guggenheim practiced law at one of Boston’s most prestigious firms before being hired on the writing staff of David E. Kelley’s Emmy-winning show about Boston attorneys, The Practice. Guggenheim then joined Law & Order, where he wrote for three seasons before moving on to the critically acclaimed series Jack & Bobby and the ratings juggernaut CSI: Miami.
Guggenheim continued to work in television, achieving the rank of “showrunner” with his first series, Eli Stone, co-created with Greg Berlanti. Berlanti and Guggenheim would continue to work together on multiple shows, including Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow.
For nearly 10 years, he collaborated with Guillermo del Toro on the Emmy Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated Tales of Arcadia trilogy for Netflix, which culminated with the Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans movie in 2021. His feature film work also includes writing screenplays for Robert Downey Jr. and Jake Gyllenhaal.
A life-long comic book fan, Guggenheim has been writing comics professionally for twenty years, working on titles for both Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and original creator-owned works. In August 2024, he published his second novel, In Any Lifetime, which has received over 6,800 reviews on Amazon (average: 4/5).
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Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winning alternate history novel The Calculating Stars, the first book in the Lady Astronaut series which continues in 2025 with The Martian Contingency. She is also the author of The Glamourist Histories series, Ghost Talkers, and The Spare Man and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Uncanny, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Mary Robinette has also worked as a professional puppeteer, is a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses, and performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and Neal Stephenson. She lives in Denver with her husband Robert, their dog Guppy, and their “talking” cat Elsie. Visit her online at maryrobinettekowal.com
Spur Award winner Reavis Z. Wortham retired in 2011 and now works harder than before as the author of the critically acclaimed Red River historical mystery series. Kirkus Reviews listed his first novel, The Rock Hole, as one of their Top 12 Mysteries of 2011. True West Magazine included Dark Places as one of 2015’s Top 12 Modern Westerns. The Providence Journal writes, “This year’s Unraveled is a hidden gem of a book that reads like Craig Johnson’s Longmire on steroids.” Wortham’s new high octane contemporary western series from Kensington Publishing featuring Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke kicked off in 2017 with the publication of Hawke’s Prey. The fourth Sonny Hawke thriller, Hawke’s Fury, was published in June 2020. In 2019, the Western Writers Association presented Hawke’s War with the Spur Award in the WWA Best Mass Market Paperback category. The Broken Truth, the second book in his new Tucker Snow series, will be published in August 2024.