Joe Hill is the author of three novels, Heart-Shaped Box, Horns, and NOS4A2, as well as a prize-winning collection of stories, 20th Century Ghosts. He also wrote a pair of comics: Locke & Key and Wraith (which ties into the world of NOS4A2). Some nice people gave him an Eisner Award for his work in funny books, which is a great honor, even if “funny” probably doesn’t do a good job of describing the kinds of things that happen in the comics. Come to think of it, his comics aren’t very comic either.

You can learn more about Joe Hill at: www.joehillfiction.com

Joe Hill is the author of three novels, Heart-Shaped Box, Horns, and NOS4A2, as well as a prize-winning collection of stories, 20th Century Ghosts. He also wrote a pair of comics: Locke & Key and Wraith (which ties into the world of NOS4A2). Some nice people gave him an Eisner Award for his work in funny books, which is a great honor, even if “funny” probably doesn’t do a good job of describing the kinds of things that happen in the comics. Come to think of it, his comics aren’t very comic either.

You can learn more about Joe Hill at: www.joehillfiction.com

Judith Viorst was born and brought up in New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University, moved to Greenwich Village, and has lived in Washington, DC, since 1960, when she married Milton Viorst, a political writer. They have three sons and seven grandchildren. Viorst writes in many different areas: science books, children’s picture books, adult fiction and nonfiction, poetry for children and adults, and musicals, which are still performed on stages around the country. She is best known for her beloved picture book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

You can learn more about Judith here.

A graduate of the London Cordon Bleu, Lisa Yockelson is a three-time award-winning cookbook author whose articles, essays, and recipes have appeared in national publications, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. As a baking journalist and recipe developer who concentrates on classic and contemporary American as well as regional European baking specialties, Lisa has spent many professional years establishing methods and techniques for flavor-building and texture-polishing baked goods–two compelling areas that have become a hallmark of her research and form the groundwork for two of her last works, Baking by Flavor and ChocolateChocolate.

Baking Style: Art, Craft, Recipes, her latest and most expansive baking cookbook to date, combines the genre of the culinary essay with recipes, their corresponding methods and illustrative images, revealing the author’s uniquely personal expression of the baking process. Baking by Flavor has been released in a beautiful paperback edition–in time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the book’s publication on February 20, 2012.

Joe Hill is the author of three novels, Heart-Shaped Box, Horns, and NOS4A2, as well as a prize-winning collection of stories, 20th Century Ghosts. He also wrote a pair of comics: Locke & Key and Wraith (which ties into the world of NOS4A2). Some nice people gave him an Eisner Award for his work in funny books, which is a great honor, even if “funny” probably doesn’t do a good job of describing the kinds of things that happen in the comics. Come to think of it, his comics aren’t very comic either.

You can learn more about Joe Hill at: www.joehillfiction.com

John Hart is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, The King of Lies, Down River, The Last Child and Iron House. The only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels, John has also won the Barry Award, the SIBA Book Award for Fiction and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller of the year. A former defense attorney and stockbroker, John spends his time in North Carolina and Virginia, where he writes full-time.

Learn more about John Hart here.

A graduate of the London Cordon Bleu, Lisa Yockelson is a three-time award-winning cookbook author whose articles, essays, and recipes have appeared in national publications, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. As a baking journalist and recipe developer who concentrates on classic and contemporary American as well as regional European baking specialties, Lisa has spent many professional years establishing methods and techniques for flavor-building and texture-polishing baked goods–two compelling areas that have become a hallmark of her research and form the groundwork for two of her last works, Baking by Flavor and ChocolateChocolate.

Baking Style: Art, Craft, Recipes, her latest and most expansive baking cookbook to date, combines the genre of the culinary essay with recipes, their corresponding methods and illustrative images, revealing the author’s uniquely personal expression of the baking process. Baking by Flavor has been released in a beautiful paperback edition–in time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the book’s publication on February 20, 2012.

James Barney is the critically acclaimed author of The Genesis Key and The Joshua Stone. His first novel, The Genesis Key, was nominated for Best First Novel by the International Thriller Writers Association in 2011. He is a trial attorney and a former nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy.

James lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife and two children.

Learn more about James Barney here.