Brian Lumley began his writing career with several short stories published by Arkham House whilst serving with the British military. In his 22 year term with the Royal Military Police he also had published three Arkham books, plus the first volume in the Titus Crow series, and a further stand-alone novel, Khai of Ancient Khem. After retiring from the army in 1980, he continued writing and in 1984 completed his breakthrough novel, Necroscope^®. The success of the initial five Necroscope novels saw his books pass two million sales, and led to another eleven titles in the series: The Vampire World Trilogy, The Lost Years One and Two, The Invaders Trilogy, Necroscope^®: The Touch, and two volumes that include Necroscope novellas and short stories.

Lumley has had published 12 collections of short fiction and two SF novels and is a recipient of the prestigious Grand Master Award as presented by the World Horror Association. He lives in Torquay, England, with his wife, Barbara Ann, widely known as Silky.

Tananarive Due—pronounced tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo—is the American Book Award-winning author of nine books, ranging from supernatural thrillers to a mystery to a civil rights memoir.

Her newest novel, Blood Colony (June 2008), is the long-awaited sequel to her 2001 thriller The Living Blood  and 1997’s My Soul to Keep, a reader favorite that Stephen King said “bears favorable comparison to Interview with the  Vampire.”  Blood Colony continues the saga of African immortals with healing blood.

In the summer of 2007, Due and novelist/screenwriter Steven Barnes (her husband) published their first mystery, Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel, which they wrote in collaboration with actor Blair Underwood.  Publishers Weekly called Casanegra “seamlessly entertaining.” 

In 2004, alongside such luminaries as Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, Due received the “New Voice in Literature Award” at the Yari Yari Pamberi conference co-sponsored by New York University’s Institute of African-American Affairs and African Studies Program and the Organization of Women Writers of Africa.

Steven Barnes has published twenty-three novels and more than three million words of science fiction and fantasy.  He’s been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Cable Ace awards.  While his television work includes Twilight Zone, Stargate and Andromeda, his “A Stitch In Time” episode of The Outer Limits won the Emmy Award, and his alternate history novel Lion’s Blood won the 2003 Endeavor. His  Great Sky Woman  and Shadow Valley, adventures set 30,000 years ago in East Africa, were published by Ballentine/One World Books in 2006 and 2009.

            Casanegra, an erotic mystery novel written with his wife, American Book Award-winning novelist Tananarive Due, and Hollywood luminary Blair Underwood, was published by Atria in July of 2007 and immediately became an Essence Best-Seller. 

Barnes is also a life coach, lecturer, and personal  consultant who has lectured on creativity and human performance technologies from UCLA, USC, and Pasadena JPL to the Smithsonian Institute. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter Nicki, and son Jason.