Our Authors

Richard Harland lives between the golden beaches and green hills of Wollongong, south of Sydney in Australia. For 10 years, he was a university academic, with three published books on the philosophy of language. Then he resigned to become a full-time writer. He has published SF thrillers (the Eddon and Vail series), a fantasy trilogy (the Ferren books) and two gothic cult novels. His latest novel, The Black Crusade, won the Aurealis Award for Best Novel in any category of SF, fantasy or horror.

Kristin Harmel is the author of the Warner Books/5 Spot novels How to Sleep with a Movie Star and The Blonde Theory, as well as the upcoming The Art of French Kissing (Warner Books, February 2008) and When You Wish (a YA novel from Delacorte Press/Random House, January 2008). She is a frequent contributor to People magazine and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in magazines including Glamour, American Baby, Men’s Health and YM. She appears regularly on the nationally syndicated TV morning show “The Daily Buzz.” After having lived in New York, Paris and Los Angeles, she now resides in Orlando, Fla., where she can be found every Thursday night on her couch, her TV tuned to ABC. She really has met Patrick Dempsey and would like to consider changing her name to Kristin Harmel-McDreamy. Visit her Web site at www.KristinHarmel.com.

Steven Harper lives in Ypsilanti, Mich., with his wife and son. He teaches English in Walled Lake, Mich., and he is appalled that the school requires him to teach Romeo and Juliet, which contains horrifying violence and shocking dirty jokes. His students think he’s hysterical, which isn’t the same as thinking he’s hilarious. He is the creator of the Silent Empire series for Roc Books, including Dreamer, Nightmare and Trickster. Currently, he’s working on Offspring, the fourth book. His books were nominated twice for the Spectrum Award. Visit his Web page at www.sff.net/people/spiziks.

Charlaine Harris, who writes one conventional mystery series and one humorous/vampire/romance/adventure mystery series, lives in southern Arkansas with a husband, three children, a ferret, two dogs and a duck. The duck stays outside. Charlaine won the 2002 Anthony Award for Dead Until Dark, the debut novel of her vampire series. Almost needless to say, she loves “Buffy.”

David Harris is an Australian physicist and science journalist. He previously presented a popular radio show in which callers would challenge him to answer their scientific questions. In the same spirit, he wrote 65 episodes of a television series that answered children’s science questions. He has also reported on science for newspapers and magazines, and is founding editor-in-chief of the magazine symmetry, which focuses on the world of particle physics, synchrotron x-ray science and cosmology. He is currently based in California at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, which copublishes symmetry with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

For over two decades, Tim & Julie Harris have been leaders in the real estate industry, first as top-producing agents and now as the nation’s most sought after real estate coaches. In their twenties, during their very first full year as Realtors®, Tim & Julie earned real estate industry acclaim by selling more than one hundred homes. Thereafter, Tim and Julie Harris have participated in thousands of home sales. In 1999, they authored their first book, which sold out in the first 27 days. More recently, Tim and Julie have become #1 international bestselling authors of Harris Rules. The National Association of Realtors® featured Tim & Julie in articles about their real estate sales success, and in 1998 they were recruited to become Howard Brinton Stars, which introduced them to real estate coaching and training. Tim and Julie started coaching agents in 1998. From 2002-2007, they worked with other coaching organizations as coaches and executives. Tim and Julie Harris are honored to have coached many of the nation’s top producing agents. Inman News named Tim and Julie Harris as the “best coaches in the industry.”

Scott Harris is the founder of Magnetic Real Estate and a two-decade veteran in the New York City residential real estate space, with more than $1.5 billion in sales under his belt. Recently named as a Wall Street Journal Top Trends Top 250 agent, Scott and his team have navigated the most complicated transactions in what is arguably the most competitive real estate market in the US. He is the founder of the Harris Residential Team, working with buyers and sellers just like you to bring your dreams to life through his tried-and-true real estate system which he calls The Magnetic Method.