Join Loyalty in welcoming KJ Charles, T. Kingfisher, Malka Older, and Martha Wells for a VIRTUAL Comfort Reads Pane, with Loyalty's own Hannah Oliver Depp moderating the convol! Grab your blankets, your tea (or coffee) and get cozy as these author friends discuss their books! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast and is free to attend. Click here to register for the event. You can also order the book from our website to be added to the event's registration list, and there will also be an option to snag the book during the event. 

KJ Charles spent twenty years as an editor in British publishing before fleeing the scene to become a full-time novelist, writing historical romance, fantasy and mystery. She has written some thirty novels and her books have been translated into eight languages. She lives next to a magpie-haunted London park, with a supportive husband, two eye-rolling teenagers, and a cat with a history of violence.

T. Kingfisher writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, including Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead, and A House with Good Bones. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children's books. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, cats, and a large garden full of suspicious mushrooms.

Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot, and the Washington Post. Her novella The Mimicking of Known Successes, a murder mystery set on a gas giant planet, came out in March 2023 to rave reviews, including Best-of lists at Barnes and Noble and Library Journal, among others, and the sequel, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, will be published in early 2024. She created the serial Ninth Step Station on Realm, and her acclaimed short story collection And Other Disasters came out in November 2019. She has a doctorate in the sociology of organizations from Sciences Po and is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University, where she teaches on humanitarian aid and predictive fictions, and hosts the Science Fiction Sparkle Salon. Her opinions can be found in The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and NBC THINK, among other places.

Martha Wells has written many fantasy novels, including The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and nonfiction. Her New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards.

Hannah Oliver Depp is the co-owner of Loyalty Bookstores in DC and MD. Loyalty is dedicated to diverse and intersectional literature, programs, and gifts for all ages. Oliver Depp has served on multiple ABA committees and is currently on the boards of Bookshop.org and NAIBA.

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KJ Charles, T. Kingfisher, Malka Older, and Martha Wells for COMFORT READS PANEL