Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women Book 1)

Mircea Nedelciu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a neˈdelt͡ʃju]; November 12, 1950 – July 12, 1999) was a Romanian short-story writer, novelist, essayist and literary critic, one of the leading exponents of the Optzecişti generation in Romanian letters. The author of experimental prose, mixing elements of conventional narratives with autofiction, textuality, intertextuality and, in some cases, fantasy, he placed […]

Skyler White is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, including the novel The Incrementalists co-authored with Steven Brust. She is also the author of two novels in the genres of romance and erotica. White grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[1] The child of two college professors, she attended a performing arts high school, originally intending […]

David Meltzer (February 17, 1937 – December 31, 2016) was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as “one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians”.[1] Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology, The New American Poetry […]

Charles-Jacques-Louis-Auguste Rochette de La Morlière, called “Le Chevalier” , (22 April 1719 – 9 February 1785) was an 18th-century French playwright. An unscrupulous schemer, La Morlière first sought the support of the party of Voltaire, applauding the verse of the master, and when he found himself sufficiently established at café Procope, became an entrepreneur of […]

Maya Banks is an American bestselling author of erotic romance, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, and Scottish historical romance novels. Banks has written over fifty novels.[1] Her story, No Place to Run, landed on The New York Times Best Seller list in December 2010,[2] while many others have been ranked on the USA Today’s Best-Selling Books […]