CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the award-winning, bestselling author of such novels as The Myth Hunters, Wildwood Road, The Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, Of Saints and Shadows, and The Borderkind. Golden co-wrote the lavishly illustrated novel Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire with Mike Mignola.

      With Thomas E. Sniegoski, he is the co-author of the dark fantasy series The Menagerie as well as the young readers fantasy series OutCast and the comic book miniseries Talent, both of which were recently acquired by Universal Pictures. Golden and Sniegoski also wrote the graphic novel BPRD: Hollow Earth, a spinoff from the fan favorite comic book series Hellboy. Golden authored several original Hellboy novels, including The Lost Army and The Bones of Giants, and edited two Hellboy short story anthologies.

      He has written a great many novels, non-fiction books, and comic books—and two video games—based in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Working with actress/writer/director Amber Benson, he co-created and co-wrote Ghosts of Albion, an original animated supernatural drama for BBC online, from which they created the book series of the same name. (www.ghostsofalbion.net)

      Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts University. He has recently completed The Lost Ones, part three of a dark fantasy trilogy for Bantam Books entitled The Veil. At present he is collaborating with Tim Lebbon on Mind the Gap, the first novel in their series The Hidden Cities. There are more than eight million copies of his books in print.

Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com

TIM LEBBON has been writing ever since he can remember. When he was a kid, he finished a story about a train hijacking; when he was a teenager, he began about nine million novels, and finished none of them.

His first published story was in the UK indie magazine Psychotrope in 1994. Three years later, in 1997, Tanjen published Mesmer, his first novel. Now with over a dozen books to his credit, Lebbon has drawn inspirations from a wide variety of authors, from Machen to Masterton, King to Kafka, Barker to Banks, Clark to Clarke, Bradbury to Ballard, Piccirilli to Priest.

Tim was born in London in 1969, lived in Devon until he was eight, and the next twenty years were spent in Newport. He now lives with his wife Tracy and his kids Ellie and Daniel in Goytre in Monmouthshire.

Please visit him at www.timlebbon.net