Patrick Rothfuss is the bestselling author of
The Kingkiller Chronicle. His first novel,
The Name of the Wind, won the Quill Award and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Its sequel,
The Wise Man's Fear, debuted at #1 on
The New York Times bestseller chart and won the David Gemmell Legend Award. His novels have appeared on NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books list and Locus' Best 21st Century Fantasy Novels list. Pat lives in Wisconsin, where he brews mead, builds box forts with his children, and runs Worldbuilders, a book-centered charity that has raised more than six million dollars for Heifer International.
Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto. He's worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco. He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and Program Coordinator for Seneca College's award-winning Animation program. His current projects include
Dungeons & Dragons for IDW;
Thunderbolts, the return of Marvel's villainous superhero team; and
Wayward, his creator-owned series about teens fighting Japanese mythological monsters.