Author: Fandom

Admired and best-selling authors offer advice and discuss their latest books. 

See characters you know and love from a different angle or discover a new favorite at our Fandom author panel with Zoraida Córdova, Kiss the Girl (Meant to Be); Maria Hoey, The Shadower; Alex Segura, Enemy of My Enemy: A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel; and Dan Watters, Batman: Dark Patterns and Nightwing Vol. 1: On with the Show.

Zoraida Córdova started writing when she was thirteen years old and hasn’t stopped. She has written more than two dozen novels and short stories, including The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, Valentina Salazar Is Not a Monster Hunter, and Star Wars: The High Republic: Convergence. Her 2016 novel Labyrinth Lost, book one in the Brooklyn Brujas trilogy, won an International Latino Book Award. Zoraida was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and calls New York City home.

Maria Hoey and her brother Peter make pictures together. Trading back and forth from their studios in New York and Northern California, the brother and sister artists draw for publications of all kinds. They also write, draw, and design the Eisner-nominated comic series, Coin-Op. Their graphic novels Animal Stories, The Bend of Luck, and In Perpetuity were all published by Top Shelf Productions. The Shadower and F. Stein are their fourth and fifth graphic novels.

Alex Segura is the bestselling author of Secret Identity, winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an NPR Best Mystery of the Year. His most recent publications include Daredevil: Enemy of My Enemy, the second novel in the new Marvel Crime series, as well as Daredevil: The Illustrated History. In addition to his prose, he has written a number of comics for Marvel and DC, including Star Wars: Battle of Jakku, Spider-Society, and The Question: All Along the Watchtower.

Dan Watters is a writer born and living in London. He is currently the writer of Coffin Bound at Image Comics, and Lucifer for DC Vertigo’s Sandman Universe. His first creator-owned comic, Limbo, was released through Image Comics in 2016. Since then, he has written horror, fantasy and mystery stories for DC, Dynamite, Titan Books and Vault Comics.

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