Thommy Hutson is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, director, and best-selling author. He has written or produced critically acclaimed film and television projects—holiday, thriller, horror, and documentary—that have aired on Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, Hulu, Syfy, Chiller, Shudder, Bio Channel, and more. As an author, Thommy crafted the definitive book on the making and legacy of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and his debut novel, the teen thriller Jinxed, is the award-winning debut of a trilogy that has been called, “A must read. Hutson could easily take on the mantle as the next Lois Duncan.” His next novel, the holiday fantasy Write Christmas, releases December 2020. A member of the Producers Guild of America, a Saturn and Home Media Magazine award-winner, a lover of Christmas films, and an aficionado of teen movies from the 80s and 90s, Thommy continues to develop unique and compelling projects across multiple genres for film, television, publishing, and home entertainment.

Darcy Coates is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen horror and suspense novels. She lives in the Central Coast of Australia with her family, cat, and a collection of chickens. Her home is surrounded by rolling wilderness on all sides, and she wouldn't have it any other way. You can hear about her next book by joining her newsletter: www.darcycoates.com/updates

Josh Malerman is the New York Times best selling author of BIRD BOX, MALORIE, GOBLIN, PEARL, GHOUL n THE CAPE, and more. He's also one of two singer/songwriter for the rock band The High Strung.

LINDY MILLER RYAN is a Bram Stoker Awards®-nominated and Silver Falchion Award-winning editor, author, short-film director, and professor. Ryan the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue, the world’s leading horror culture and entertainment brand, and a regular contributor at Booktrib and LitReactor. Her guest articles and features include NPR, BBC Culture, Irish Times, Daily Mail, and more. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the International Thriller Writers (ITW), and the Brothers Grimm Society of North America. In 2022, she was named one of horror's most masterful anthology curators, alongside Ellen Datlow and Christopher Golden, and has been declared a "champion for women's voices in horror" by Shelf Awareness (2023). Her animated short film, TRICK OR TREAT, ALISTAIR GRAY, based on her children's book of the same name, won the Grand Prix Award at the 2022 ANMTN Awards. ​ Ryan is currently a full-time professor at Rutgers University in the Masters of Professional Science program, She is also a guest faculty mentor in Western Connecticut State’s MFA program. Prior to her career in academia, Ryan was the co-founder of Radiant Advisors, a business intelligence research and advisory firm, where she led the company’s research and data enablement practice for clients that included 21st Century Fox Films, Warner Bros., and Disney. In 2017, Ryan founded Black Spot Books, an independent press focused on amplifying underrepresented voices in horror, where she maintains her role as President after the company was acquired in 2019 as an imprint of Vesuvian Media Group. Ryan served from 2020 to 2022 on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association and was named one of Publishers Weekly‘s 2020 Star Watch Honorees. Currently, she is the co-chair of the Horror Writers Association Publishers Council. Ryan grew up cutting her teeth on Goosebumps and universal monsters. She has published numerous academic texts and also writes clean, seasonal romance under the name ​Lindy Miller, where her books have been adapted for screen.