Devin Grayson is a fiction writer perhaps best known for being the first woman to launch a monthly Batman series for DC Comics (Batman- Gotham Knights) back in 2000. Since then she's published novels and short stories, worked on video game scripts and essays, consulted for entertainment industry luminaries looking to expand their brands into graphic novels and comics and taught and guest-lectured at conventions, universities and seminars around the world.

Scott Westerfeld is best known as the author of the Uglies series, a number-one New York Times bestseller, and the Leviathan and Zeroes trilogies, both New York Times bestsellers. His standalone novels include So Yesterday, and Afterworlds.

His other works include the Midnighters trilogy, the Peeps and Risen Empire duologies, and the eponymous first book of the Horizon multi-platform series. His novels have won the Philip K Dick Special Citation, the Aurelius Award (twice), the Victorian Premier's Award, and have been named New York Times Notable Books and Best Books for Young Adults Top Ten Children's Books of the Year.

Scott co-wrote the Shay's Story Uglies-based graphic novels with Devin Grayson. He is also the author of the graphic novel Spill Zone, illustrated by Alex Puvilland. He lives in Sydney and New York.