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Sachin, born under the zodiac sign of Gemini, is a bright-eyed, imaginative and eager young man; born and brought up in Kalaburagi, the heritage circuit of Karnataka, India. Being a semester away from graduation didn’t stop him from manifesting his imagination into literary expression. His creative interest was birthed by a passionate engagement in gaming as a teenager.  Assassin’s Creed and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt games and J.K. Rowling’s novels particularly inspired him to carve a space for his imagination. The debut plot for this story was written in 2018. Sachin’s dedication allowed him to see a silver lining amidst the pandemic; the time and space for completing the novel. In Part 1, The Broken Stone, he also shares with readers a glimpse into the upcoming sequel. Apart from being an engineering student and aspiring writer, Sachin is also an amateur yet avid rapper.

Hiroshi Yamamot was born 1956 in Kyoto. He began his career with game developers Group SNE in 1987 and debuted as a writer and game designer. He gained popularity with juvenile titles such as February at the Edge of Time and the Ghost Hunter series. His first hardcover science fiction release, God Never Keeps Silent became a sensation among SF fans and was nominated for the Japan SF Award. Other novels include Day of Judgment and The Unseen Sorrow of Winter. Aside from his work as a writer, Yamamoto is also active in various literary capacities as editor of classic science fiction anthologies and as president of To-Gakkai, a group of tongue-in-cheek "experts" on the occult.

Rick Yancey is the author of several adult novels and the memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector. His first young-adult novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. In 2010, his novel The Monstrumologist received a Michael L. Printz Honor, and the sequel, The Curse of the Wendigo, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. When he isn’t writing or thinking about writing or traveling the country talking about writing, Rick is hanging out with his family.

Nikola Yanchovichin was born with his hell kind of name in Bansko, Bulgaria.
He likes good books, films and friendly chatting and he dislikes dark, creepy places, which are hiding drug abusers, mucous montsers, voyeurs, velociraptors and little childrens.

JY Yang is a lapsed journalist, a former practicing scientist, and a master of hermitry. A queer, non-binary, postcolonial intersectional feminist, their work often examines issues of race, class, and gender. They have short fiction published or forthcoming in places including Uncanny, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons and Tor.com. They live in Singapore, edit fiction at Epigram Books, and have a MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.

Nir Yaniv (born 1972) is an Israeli writer, film-maker and musician. His stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Apex Magazine and Shimmer and are published in two collections.

Isabel Yap writes fiction and poetry, works in the tech industry, and drinks tea. Born and raised in Manila, she has also lived in California and London. She is currently completing her MBA at Harvard Business School. She attended the Clarion Writers Workshop and is the secretary for the Clarion Foundation. Her work has appeared in venues including Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born 1942) is an American author. She is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire, the Count Saint-Germain.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has written two books under the pseudonym of Trystam Kith.

Mercedes M. Yardley has two broken laptops, three kids, a husband and no time to write, although she tries her very best.

She likes to write stories. She likes to write poems. She likes to write essays and sometimes they're funny, sometimes they aren't.

Rebecca Yarros is an accomplished author, recognized as both a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling writer with a repertoire of more than fifteen novels, each expertly designed to evoke deep emotions. Notably, she has earned the prestigious Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence for her work in the Flight and Glory series, specifically for "Eyes Turned Skyward."

Alexander Yates grew up in Haiti, Mexico and Bolivia. He graduated high school in the Philippines, where he later returned to work as a contractor in the US Embassy. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University, where he edited the literary journal Salt Hill and won Joyce Carol Oates awards in fiction and poetry. His short story "Everything, Clearly" was a finalist for the American Fiction prize. Other work has appeared in Salon, Fivechapters.com and the Kenyon Review Online. Alex currently lives in Washington DC with his wife and cats.

F. C. Yee grew up in New Jersey and studied economics at Brown University. For his debut novel, he drew inspiration from the best and wisest people in his life. Outside of writing, he practices capoeira, a Brazilian form of martial arts. He currently calls the San Francisco Bay Area home.

Ivan Antonovich (1908-1972) was a Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker. He originated taphonomy, the study of fossilization patterns.

Morowa Yejidé, a native of Washington, DC, is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Time of the Locust, which was a 2012 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize, long-listed for the 2015 PEN/Bingham Prize, and a 2015 NAACP Image Award nominee. She lives in the DC area with her husband and three sons.

Eugene Yelchin is a Russian-American author and illustrator of many books for children, including Breaking Stalin s Nose, a Newbery Honor book; The Haunting of Falcon House, a Golden Kite Award winner; and The Rooster Prince of Breslov, a National Jewish Book Award winner. He has also received the SCBWI Tomie dePaola Award for illustration. He lives in Topanga, California.

Jack Yeovil is the pen name of Kim Newman.

Laurence Michael Yep (born 1948) is a prolific, award-winning Chinese-American modern author.

Laurence Yep has been fascinated with tales of sibling rivalry from the day he was born. His older brother, Tom, chose his name Laurence – after a saint who died a particularly gruesome death. Laurence has been trying to get even ever since. Laurence Yep now lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife and is one of children's literature's most respected authors.

Frank Garvin Yerby (1916–1991) was an African-American historical novelist. He is best known as the first African-American writer to become a millionaire from his pen, and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation.

Nicholas Yermakov is the original name of Simon Hawke.

Jaimal Yogis is an award-winning writer of numerous books including Saltwater Buddha, The Fear Project, and All Our Waves Are Water, which have been internationally praised and translated into numerous languages. More recently he has been writing children's books like Mop Rides the Waves of Life and Mop Rides the Waves of Change - named a 2020 Favorite by the Children's Book Review and one of the best sports books for all ages by Book Riot. Jaimal's middle-grade graphic novel series, City of Dragons - a collaboration with Vivian Truong - released from Scholastic in 2021 and became an instant national bestseller. Jaimal's award-winning journalism has appeared in publications like The Washington Post, ESPN Magazine, The Atlantic, and many others. He lives near San Francisco's Ocean Beach with his wife Amy and their three boys. 

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born 1939) is an American author and editor of almost 300 books.

A pen name of Louis Cha.

Jin Yong was one of the world's bestselling writers, with more than 100 million of his works sold (not including unknown numbers of bootleg copies). He was beloved across China for his wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry) novels, which have given rise to film, television, comic book and video game adaptations. He was awarded an O.B.E. in 1981, and was one of two authors on the MacLehose list who have had asteroids named in their honour (the other being Georges Perec).

Micah is a Manchester-based journalist, writer and videographer. When he's not writing articles he can be found lamenting the often rainy weather in his beloved hometown of Manchester (England), working on his true passion – fiction writing – or blogging about the varied things that make the world, and those living in it. Lost Gods is his debut novel.

Rio Youers is the author of Everdead and Mama Fish. He lives in Canada with his wife, Emily.

Adrienne Young is the New York Times, USA Today, and Indie list bestselling author of the Fable duology and the Sky in the Deep duology. She is a foodie with a deep love of history and travel and a shameless addiction to coffee. When she’s not writing, you can find her on her yoga mat, sipping wine over long dinners or disappearing into her favorite art museums. She lives with her documentary filmmaker husband and their four little wildlings in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. 

Emma Young is an award-winning science/medicine journalist and author. Her work has been carried by CNN, the Week, and various newspapers and websites. Her books include the critically acclaimed middle-grade Storm series, as well as adult popular-science nonfiction. She lives in the United Kingdom with her husband and two children.

Francis Brett Young (1884–1954) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and composer.

From the author's official website:

Hester Young was born in Boston on the tenth of November, right around the time of year that New England begins its transformation from a place of colorful leaves and bountiful harvest to a sad display of autumnal decay.  A November baby in both mind and spirit, Hester taught herself to read at the age of four and soon gravitated towards books with tragically orphaned heroines. Her favorite games as a child involved climbing trees, sword fighting playmates with sticks, and trying to escape from an imaginary internment camp.

Moira Young has been by turns an actress, dancer, and opera singer, but her first loves are books and writing. A native Canadian, she now lives in the UK with her husband. Blood Red Road is her first novel.

Robert Franklin Young (1915–1986) was an American science fiction author.

Suzanne Young is the New York Times bestselling author of The Program series. Originally from Utica, New York, Suzanne moved to Arizona to pursue her dream of not freezing to death. She is a novelist and an English teacher, but not always in that order. Suzanne is also the author of Girls with Sharp Sticks, All in Pieces, Hotel for the Lost, and several others novels for teens.

Heather Young-Nichols is a USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary and paranormal romances. She writes swoony heroes and snarly heroines with a heap of romance.

When she's not writing, she's binging a show with her kids, watching baseball, or snuggling with her cuddly animals

Charles Yu received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection Third Class Superhero, and he has also received the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. His work has been published in the Harvard Review, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and Mid-American Review, among other journals. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Michelle, and their two children.

E. Lily Yu received the Artist Trust / LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017 and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2012. Her stories appear in venues from McSweeney's to Tor.com and in eleven best-of-the-year anthologies, and have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. She has lived on both coasts and holds degrees from Princeton and Cornell. On Fragile Waves is her first novel.

Mimi Yu is an alumna of the Popular Fiction workshop with Marjorie Liu at Voices of Our Nation's Arts (VONA)/University of California at Berkeley 2014, and VONA/University of Miami 2015. She also has a BA in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, and an MFA in fine art from Parsons School of Design. The Girl King is her first novel.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the national bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children and the widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Iowa Review, Mother Jones, Ms., the Sun, the Rumpus, PANK, Zyzzyva, Fiction International, and other publications. She is the recipient of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Readers’ Choice Award. The co-founder of Chiasmus Press, she teaches writing and literature in Oregon.

Jerry Yulsman (1924–1999) was an American novelist and a photographer best known for his photographs of Jack Kerouac, notably the cover illustration on Joyce Johnson's memoir Minor Characters.

Monokuro Yun is a Japanese culture fanatic with various experiences in many fields people might deem extraordinary. She reads a lot of historical books, practices long-sword fencing, and overall is an information freak with good oratory skills. Monokuro resides in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Todd Yunker is Oregonian and is Salem, Oregon. Todd is an award-winning author of the epic science fiction The Lost Wonder Series, book one Shackleton’s Folly. Growing up, Sci-Fi permeated Todd’s youth and adolescence. He was an avid reader. He devoured all the books he could find in the library. Todd relished classic Sci-Fi feature films and Japanese monster movies. He indulged his fancy and watched swashbuckler movies of the ‘30s and ‘40s influenced his vision of adventure. The raw cynical attitudes and sexual motivations of Film noir influenced his grasp of story over fluff. Todd’s study of storytelling brought him to Joseph Cambell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Christopher Vogler’s The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers. This profound understanding of storytelling has advanced the quality of his work. He would like to know the why don’t we have our flying cars?