Category: Middle Grade Novel

Kraus, Daniel

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Awards:

They Stole Our Hearts (Henry Holt and Co.), Middle Grade Novel, 2022

Nominations:

Bent Heavens (Henry Holt and Company/Macmillan), Young Adult Novel, 2020

Rotters, Young Adult Novel, 2011

BIO: DANIEL KRAUS is a New York Times bestselling author. His posthumous collaboration with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, The Living Dead, was acclaimed by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Year. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus has won a Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler) and has been a Library Guild selection, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Bram Stoker finalist, and more.

Kraus’s work has been translated into over 25 languages. He lives with his wife in Chicago. Visit him at danielkraus.com.

Collings, Michaelbrent

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Nominations:

The Witch in the Woods (Shadow Mountain Publishing), Middle Grade Novel, 2024

The Deep (self-published), Novel, 2015

The Ridealong (self-published), Young Adult Novel, 2015

Find out more about him at WrittenInsomnia.com.

BIO: Michaelbrent Collings is an internationally bestselling novelist, produced screenwriter, and speaker. Best known for horror (and voted one of the top 50 All-Time Greatest Horror Writers in a Ranker vote of nearly 20,000 readers), Collings has written bestselling thrillers, mysteries, sci-fi and fantasy titles, and even humor and non-fiction.

In addition to popular success, Michaelbrent has also received critical acclaim: he has been a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award (three times), a Dragon Award (twice), and a RONE Award, and he and his work have been reviewed and/or featured on everything from Publishers Weekly to Scream Magazine to NPR. An engaging and entertaining speaker, he is also a frequent guest at comic cons and on writing podcasts like Six Figure Authors, The Creative Penn, Writing Excuses, and others; and is a mental health advocate and TEDx speaker.