Ben McSweeney is an illustrator, animator and director whose work with Brandon Sanderson includes The Rithmatist, The Stormlight Archive and The Mistborn Adventure Game. He currently works as a Key Animator for Bento Box Atlanta on their new series The Awesomes.

Find out more at www.inkthinker.net.

Idaliz Seymour is an Army wife and mother of two boys. She has been with the About Words Agency in Atlanta, Georgia for three years where she first began as an intern, quickly moving her way up to Literary Agent. Here she’s found an enjoyable mix of helping people and reading. She has a fiery passion for all books and is in constant search for the next great novel. She specializes in Romance, Paranormal, Mystery and Young Adult genres; a broad, but very carefully selected variety based on experience and personal tastes.

Alex Hughes, the author of the Mindspace Investigations series from Roc, has lived in the Atlanta area since the age of eight. She is a graduate of the prestigious Odyssey Writing Workshop, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the International Thriller Writers. Her short fiction has been published in several markets including EveryDay Fiction, Monster Corral and White Cat Magazine. She is an avid cook and foodie, a trivia buff, and a science geek, and loves to talk about neuroscience, the Food Network, and writing craft—but not necessarily all at the same time!