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When Shelby Van Pelt isn’t writing, she’s herding cats and wrangling children. Her debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures (Ecco, 2022) was an instant New York Times Bestseller and a Read With Jenna Today Show book club pick. In 2023, she was awarded the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize from The Writer’s Center. Remarkably Bright Creatures has sold over a million copies. It has spent, in aggregate, a year-plus on the NYT Hardcover Bestseller list. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Shelby lives in the Chicago area with her family.

Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first novel. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Paula moved to London in 1989. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has sold more than 23 million copies worldwide. Published in over fifty languages, it has been a Number 1 bestseller around the world and was a box office hit film starring Emily Blunt. Paula’s thrillers, Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning, were also instant Number 1 bestsellers.

Aphrodite Jones knows true crime. A bestselling author and TV persona, Jones is known as someone who doesn’t sugar-coat her opinions on controversial murder cases. Always with her finger on the pulse, her true crime books have inspired real-life films including the Academy Award-winning film, Boys Don’t Cry, the ABC movie, Betrayed By Love, and  Lifetime film The Staircase Murders, a story that later became the subject of the hit Netflix docu-series The Staircase.

In her true crime books, Jones brings readers deep into the mind of a killer, revealing the dark motives of a sociopath and the failures of those who unwittingly allowed a monster to hide in plain sight. Her mission is to bring a form of catharsis to the victim’s families, to unravel the “why?” and to write cautionary tales that might help prevent a future tragedy. 

In addition to writing a string of bestselling true crime books, Jones created the hit ID series, True Crime with Aphrodite Jones, which ran for six seasons on Investigation Discovery, airing in 90 countries around the world. All 63 episodes of TCAJ can be seen on Discovery+ 

Throughout her illustrious career, Jones has covered the high-profile trials of O.J. Simpson, Casey Anthony, Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson, and drug kingpin El Chapo Guzman. Her newest book, Levi’s Eyes: A Son’s Deadly Secret and A Father’s Cruel Betrayal, became an instant bestseller on Amazon and has been featured on Dateline NBC, FOX Nation, and on ABC’s 20/20  “The Sins of the Father.”

Jones is an activist for victim’s rights and has given keynote addresses to The Child Rescue Coalition, The Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County, The American Polygraph Association, The FBI Citizen’s Academy, and was the inaugural speaker at CrimeCon, which continues to draw thousands of participants and top luminaries from every spectrum of the true crime world. 

Ethan Kross, PhD, author of the national bestseller Chatter and forthcoming shift, is one of the world’s leading experts on emotion regulation. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory. Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed about his research on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. He completed his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at Columbia University.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is the two-time Newbery Honor winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of several acclaimed middle grade novels, including Fighting Words, The War That Saved My Life and Jefferson’s Sons. She and her husband have two grown children and live with their dog, several ponies, a highly opinionated mare, and a surplus of cats on a fifty-two acre farm in Bris­tol, Tennessee.