V Wars : A Chronicle of the Vampire Wars

Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, four-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-Wars, became a Netflix original series. He writes horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, thriller, and more. He is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of Weird Tales magazine.

Nancy Holder is the coauthor of the new Crusade series. She has published sixty books and more than two hundred short stories. She has received four Bram Stoker awards for fiction from the Horror Writers Association, and her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Holder has written or cowritten twenty Buffy and Angel projects. Her books include the New York Times bestselling series Wicked and the novel The Rose Bride. A graduate of the University of California at San Diego, Holder is currently a writing teacher at the school. She lives in San Diego with her daughter, Belle, and their growing assortment of pets.

John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of nine novels of erotic horror and the macabre, including the Bram Stoker Award–nominated tour de force Nightwhere. John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There’s also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can’t really play but that his son likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it’s usually only to brew another cup of coffee. 

Yvonne Navarro is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of over twenty novels. She has written tie-ins to hit TV shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and movie tie-in novels for Aliens, Hellboy, Species, Elektra, and Ultraviolet. She lives in Arizona and is married to author Weston Ochse.

James A. Moore is the bestselling author of more than forty novels, including Alien: Sea of Sorrows, Fireworks, Under the Overtree, Blood Red, the Serenity Falls trilogy, City of Wonders, and The Last Sacrifice. A contributor to Aliens: Bug Hunt, he has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. He spent three years as an officer in the Horror Writers Association, first as secretary and later as vice president.

Keith R.A. DeCandido (www.DeCandido.net) is the USA Today and Locus bestselling author of more than sixty novels, more than one hundred works of short fiction, more than seventy comic books, and more nonfiction than he’s comfortable counting. His work in the media tie-in field has earned him a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and covered more than thirty different licensed universes, including TV shows (Star Trek: The Klingon Art of War, Supernatural: Nevermore), movies (Alien: Isolation, Cars: Rust Bucket Derby), games (Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness—The Beginning, World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred), comic books (Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets, Thor: Dueling with Giants), and literary characters (Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight, Joe Ledger: Unstoppable). In addition, Keith has written extensively in worlds of his own creation, including other fantastical police procedurals in the fictional locales of Cliff’s End (Dragon Precinct and its sequels, the latest of which is Phoenix Precinct) and Super City (a novel and several shorter works featuring the Super City Police Department) and urban fantasy in New York City (the Adventures of Bram Gold, including A Furnace Sealed and Feat of Clay) and Key West (two short-story collections starring Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet). He also writes about pop culture for a variety of places, most prolifically on the awardwinning web site Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com). A veteran editor and anthologist, Keith recently co-edited Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry) and The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms). Keith is also a professional musician (currently with the parody band, Boogie Knights), a dedicated New York Yankee fan (he sometimes does editorial work for the Society of American Baseball Research), and a fourth-degree black belt in karate (he not only trains, but regularly teaches children and adults). He lives in the Bronx with his wife and two unusually friendly black cats.

Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration. She was been named a “Best Voice” by AudioFile magazine and in 2018 was inducted in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame.

Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.

Roxanne Hernandez is an audio narrator and a top narrator choice for young adult, adult drama, and Latin American/Chicano literature. She was a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2011.

Arte Johnson is an award-winning narrator and an American comic actor who won an Emmy Award for his role in the television series Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. His audiobook narations have won two AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he placed as a finalist for the Audie Award for best narration in 2003 and 2007.

Lisa Reneé Pitts is an accomplished actress in theater, film, and television, appearing in The Practice, The Shield, and Law & Order. A native New Yorker, she holds a BFA in theater arts from Rutgers University and resides in Burbank, California.

John Rubinstein is an actor, composer, and director who won a Tony Award for his starring role in Broadway’s Children of a Lesser God. He has narrated dozens of audiobooks, earning several AudioFile Earphones Awards and being named a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2013.

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Wil Wheaton is an award–winning actor, voice artist, author, and audiobook narrator. Among his movie credits are Stand by Me and Toy Soldiers. His many television credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory, and Generator Rex. As a narrator of more than a dozen audiobooks, he has twice won the prestigious Audie Award, twice been a finalist for the Audie, and earned an Earphones Award from AudioFile magazine.