Krystle Appiah was an Editor at Macmillan Children’s Books, home to authors including Marcus Rashford, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Tomi Adeyemi, and Julia Donaldson. She has worked on children’s books from Sir Lenny Henry’s The Boy with Wings to Padraig Kenny’s The Shadows of Rookhaven.

‍Sunday Times bestselling author of multiple fantasy series including The Bone Shard Daughter, a finalist for the British Fantasy Awards, praised by Sarah J. Maas.

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Craig Leyenaar was a Commissioning Editor at Titan Books, home to authors including Stephen King, V.E. Schwab, James Lovegrove, Mickey Spillane, and Paul Tremblay. Craig also worked at Gollancz, part of the Hachette group, home to authors including Brandon Sanderson, Joanne Harris, Patrick Rothfuss, Alastair Reynolds, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ben Aaronovitch.

USA Today bestselling author of six novels, including The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise, translated into 21 languages, and Georgia Author of the Year.

USA Today and international bestselling author of historical fiction, Women's Fiction Writers Association STAR Award Winner, and Goldsboro RNA Finalist, notably The Next Ship Home and Last Christmas in Paris.

Simran Kaur Sandhu was an Editor of middle-grade and Young Adult fiction at Macmillan Children’s Books, home to authors including Hilary McKay, Meg Cabot, Judy Blume, and Eva Ibbotson. With prior experience at HarperCollins, Profile Books, and Serpent’s Tail, she worked with award-winning authors including Tomi Adeyemi.

The prize-winning literary fiction author of All the Birds, Singing and The Echoes, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize for Fiction, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the Betty Trask Award.

‍New York Times Book Review  Editor’s Choice and acclaimed contemporary fiction author of The Wise Women, a People Magazine Best New Book Pick.

Sorcha Rose was an Editor at Hodder & Stoughton, a division of Hachette and home to authors including Stephen King, B.A. Paris, and Lucy Score. She has worked with the authors John Grisham, Peter Robinson, and Sophie Hannah, and on Erin Kelly’s Sunday Times bestseller The Skeleton Key and Will Dean’s The Last Thing to Burn.