Saladin Ahmed was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, MI. His short stories have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards, and have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and numerous other magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, as well as being translated into five foreign languages. He is represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON is his first novel. Saladin lives near Detroit with his wife and twin children.

Rafael Marín Trechera comenzó su carrera como escritor a finales de los años 70, cuando estaba estudiando la carrera de Filología Inglesa. Lanzó entonces su propio fanzine, "McClure" (1978),1 y colaboró con varias revistas de ciencia ficción, como Kandama, Máser, Nova y Nueva Dimensión; en esta última se publicó su primera novela corta, Nunca digas buenas noches a un extraño (1978), donde preludia el movimiento cyberpunk. Obtenida la licenciatura, ejerce como profesor de lengua inglesa y literatura en el Colegio San Felipe Neri de Cádiz. Trabaja también como traductor en más de un centenar de obras de diversa temática para editoriales como Martínez Roca, Júcar, Ultramar, Folio, Ediciones B, Gigamesh, La Factoría de Ideas, Bibliópolis, Minotauro y otras. Su novela Lágrimas de luz (1984) está considerada una de las mejores de la ciencia ficción española.[cita requerida] En 1995 y a partir de su memoria de licenciatura, publicó su primer ensayo sobre historieta, Los cómics Marvel.1 Como guionista de cómic, destaca sobre todo su trabajo formando equipo con Carlos Pacheco, en la serie Iberia Inc. (1996), dibujada por Rafa Fonteriz y Jesús Yugo. La serie desarrollaba las aventuras de un grupo de superhéroes españoles. En 1998, también con Pacheco, desarrolló otro cómic de temática similar, Triada Vértice, dibujada por Jesús Merino. Posteriormente co-guionizó junto con Carlos Pacheco la mini-serie de cuatro números Los Inhumanos (con dibujos de José Ladronn) y Los 4 Fantásticos (con dibujos de Carlos Pacheco), de la editorial norteamericana Marvel Comics. Dirigió la revista de estudios sobre la historieta Yellow Kid (2001-2003). Es también guionista de una serie de doce álbumes de historieta, 12 del Doce, sobre la vida en el Cádiz que redactó la primera Constitución española y que forman en conjunto una novela gráfica de 240 páginas. Lo acompañan dibujantes como Mateo Guerrero, Fritz, Antonio Romero, o Sergio Bleda.

Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name "I haven’t always been a writer. My parents are writers and my brother is a writer, and I resisted that as long as I could. When I was 17, I hopped in a band’s van and I went on tour for a summer, and that was it, that was what I wanted to do. I ran a record label for 10 years, a small indie punk label. I did everything in music that you can do that doesn’t involve having musical ability. Eventually the music business, probably in a similar way to comics, will just start to break your heart, and I realized one day that I kind of hated music. I was resigned to thinking, if I’m going to be involved in music forever, I’m going to hate it for the rest of my life. I just stopped. I stopped having any sort of business with music, any involvement. I read comics my whole life, so I just naturally fell back into another medium that is marginalized and hard to make a living in." Source: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles... Writer of comics WE CAN NEVER GO HOME, SECRET WARS JOURNAL, OUR WORK FILLS THE PEWS, 12 REASONS TO DIE, & MENU.

Ann Nocenti is most noted as an editor for Marvel Comics, for whom she edited New Mutants and The Uncanny X-Men. She made her comics writing debut on a brief run of Spider-Woman (#47-50) and subsequently wrote a long run of Daredevil (1st series) #236-291 (minus #237) from 1986 to 1991, directly following on from Frank Miller's definitive Born Again storyline. She also wrote the 1986 Longshot limited series for Marvel, and in the same year produced the Someplace Strange graphic novel in collaboration with artist John Bolton. She wrote "the Inhumans Graphic Novel" in 1988. In 1993, she wrote the 16-issue run of Kid Eternity for the DC Comics imprint Vertigo. In Incredible Hulk #291, published in September 1983 (cover date January 1984), Ann Nocenti made a cameo appearance, talking to Dr. Bruce Banner, in a history written by Bill Mantlo, drawn by Sal Buscema and inked by Carlos Garzón and Joe Sinnot. That time Ann Nocenti was Assistant Editor for Larry Hama on Incredible Hulk and X-Men. She is noted for her left-wing political views which, particularly during her run on Daredevil, caused some controversy among some fans who didn't agree with her politics. She created several popular characters, including Typhoid Mary, Blackheart, Longshot and Mojo, and wrote the 1998 X-Men novel Prisoner X. Although Nocenti left comic books in the '90s after the industry sales collapsed, she later returned to the field, penning stories such as 2004's Batman & Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows. In Ultimate X-Men, a reimagination of the X-Men comic, the character Longshot, who was invented by her, has the civil name Arthur Centino. His last name, Centino, is an anagram of Nocenti and a homage to Nocenti. The name Arthur is for the co-creator of Longshot Arthur Adams who was Ann Nocenti's artist on the Longshot Mini Series. She edited High Times magazine for one year (2004) under the name Annie Nocenti and is the former editor of the screenwriting magazine Scenario.