Callie is an Amazon, USA Today, and New York Times bestselling author, and Quicksilver is also currently a Goodreads Choice and best of Booktok pick. Callie has historically written many dark romance books in the academia, motorcycle club, and mafia realms but we're so glad she decided to dive into fantasy!

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Chelsea is the creator of her food blog A Duck’s Oven, which was originally started when she was in college to help other students branch out and cook more interesting foods. She has since branched out to a broader audience as the author of two additional cookbooks Everyday Sous Vide and Sous Vide Meal Prep. She is now embracing her love of millennial culture by tying pop culture and food together, this ACOTAR cookbook being a perfect example of that. Chelsea says that the idea for AFOTAR was born after her love for reading was reignited by a series where “meals are more than simply sustenance; they are expressions of culture, emotion, and connection. This cookbook is [her] attempt to bring those moments to your table, to let you feel the warmth of a simple meal shared in the cozy confines of a dinner with the Inner Circle or taste the richness of the Winter Solstice feast.

Author of the Broken Bounty Book Series, Ember Nicole is the creator of some of the most immersive, action packed and soul-shredding contemporary dark romance stories we’ve ever read. The most recent release is Live for Me which is Book 3, following Break for Me and Survive for Me. Ember lives in Indiana where she collects the tears of her readers and displays them in jars on her library shelves. She wrote her first book on her notes app on her phone, loves to read horror (but hates horror movies), has more coffee flowing through her veins than blood, and admits freely that spite fuels nearly everything she does at this point. To quote the acknowledgments for Live For Me: ““This book and its sequel were born of pure feminine rage, heartbreak, and pain.” 

Hilarious meme account, turned Amazon bestselling author and future bookstore opener, Lindsay Straube! Lindsay lives in Portland Oregon where she enjoys drinking tiki sosos, eating lemon Oreos, and going to the movies, her favorite of which is Dirty Dancing. Split or Swallow is her first book, and is currently rated #1 in Love Triangle Romance on Amazon.

Author of Spark of the Everflame, Glow of the Everflame, Heat the Everflame, and soon to release Burn of the Everflame. Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who has been writing her whole life but took a career detour as an attorney and small business owner. She’s thrilled to finally be accomplishing her lifelong dream of becoming an author, and when she's not writing she’s meeting and supporting others (especially women and BIPOC/LGBTQ+ authors) and reading fantasy, romcoms, and humorous non-fiction. 

"Shalini Abeysekara (she/her/hers) is a lawyer-turned-author based in Ontario, Canada. Her dark romantasies explore monstrosity—perceived and real—and center neurodivergent people of colour reckoning with themselves and their place in a world that tells them they’re too much and not enough. She is passionate about demystifying traditional publishing for all writers and promoting marginalized authors of all identities. 

When not writing, she games her life away and tries to make the perfect entremet. Most days though, she can’t believe she's an adult, and hope you don’t either. 

Her debut romantasy, This Monster of Mine, is an Ancient Rome-inspired bloodbath of manipulation, deception, and forbidden love. It comes out with Union Square & Co. and Hodderscape in April 2025 with a second novel to follow in 2026."