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VICTORIA “V. E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed novel The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the Shades of Magic series, Villains series, and the Monsters of Verity duology. Her work has received critical acclaim; been featured in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post and more; been translated into more than a dozen languages; and been optioned for television and film. When she’s not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters.

KATE READING has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty year plus career. Audie Awards: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (mystery), Breasts (non-fiction), Bellwether (fiction), and Words of Radiance, Rhythm of War (fantasy), co-narrated with her husband, Michael Kramer. Among other awards, she has been recognized with: the ALA Booklist best of 2019 for Bowlaway (fiction), AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Earphones Awards, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen- Up Award. Katereadingaudiobooks.com

MICHAEL KRAMER is entering his fourth decade of audiobook narration. He feels fortunate to work for so many fine audiobook publishers and authors, including Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Ken Liu, V. E. Schwab, and Chris Voss. He has received many Earphones Awards from AudioFile Magazine, Publishers Weekly ListenUp Award, Audie nominations, a 2016 Voice Arts Awards nomination for fantasy, and the 2015 and 2022 Audie Awards for Fantasy/Science Fiction with his wife and co-narrator, Kate Reading. Michaelkrameraudiobooks.com

MARISA CALIN is an actress, screenwriter and novelist. She is an Audie, Odyssey, Audiofile Earphones Award winning and SOVAS nominated audiobook narrator. She’s had an Audible Best Audiobook of the Year, an Apple Books Must-Listen audiobook of the month, starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal, and books on YALSA’s Amazing Audiobooks of the year list.

She wrote and produced her first feature, A Million Happy Nows, which won nineteen awards on the festival circuit, including Best First Feature at Outfest.

Her debut Young Adult novel, Between You & Me, published by Bloomsbury, was named a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of 2012, received a Kirkus star for “books of exceptional merit”, was selected for the American Library Associations’ 2013 Rainbow Book List of quality books with authentic LGBT content, and was chosen as a Kobo dazzling debut.


V.E. Schwab in Conversation with Michael Kramer, Kate Reading, and Marisa Calin