About Brendan Deneen
Brendan Deneen, a former Scott Rudin Productions, Miramax/Dimension Films, and Macmillan Publishing exec, joined Blackstone in 2021 as an editor and launched the company’s in-house film/TV division. Deneen has set up Blackstone IP with Amazon Studios, Netflix, Paramount, NBC/Universal, A&E, Lionsgate, AMC, Legendary, Amblin, Imagine, and Skydance, among many others. As an author, Deneen has had sixteen books published, including Alien: Uncivil War, Guardians of the Galaxy: Annihilation—Conquest, Green Arrow: Stranded, The Island of Misfit Toys, Morbius: Blood Ties, Flash Gordon: The Mercy Wars, and Night Night, Groot.
About Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous mystery and suspense novels, including the Sam Capra series. He is a winner of the Thriller Award and a three-time finalist for the Edgar Award, and his novels have been summer reading picks for The Today Show and Good Morning America.
About Jamie Brenner
Jamie Brenner is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including The Forever Summer and the Blue Angel trilogy. Adam Chromy is a literary agent, producer, and author. Inspired by time spent among the sprawling estates and tightly guarded social circles of Philadelphia’s Main Line, the husband-and-wife team wrote “Gold Party,” the first in a slate of commercial fiction projects they are developing together.
About Adam Chromy
Jamie Brenner is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including The Forever Summer and the Blue Angel trilogy. Adam Chromy is a literary agent, producer, and author. Inspired by time spent among the sprawling estates and tightly guarded social circles of Philadelphia’s Main Line, the husband-and-wife team wrote “Gold Party,” the first in a slate of commercial fiction projects they are developing together.
About Ed Cho
Ed Cho is the writer and co-creator of Little Guardians, a fantasy adventure graphic novel series. His short story “Lineage X” appeared in the Shadow Lab: Volume One. He is the author and director of the fiction podcast audio drama, Ignore City, which was nominated for six New Jersey Web Fest awards.
About Richie Frieman
Richie Frieman is an award winning and bestselling author of eight books, across multiple genres. He was dubbed a “Modern Day Renaissance Man” by Macmillan Publishing and St. Martin’s Press, due to a career that spans authorship, illustration, art, entrepreneurship, etiquette (aka Modern Manners Guy), podcasting, and even professional wrestling—where he held over a dozen championships during his in-ring tenure. He and his work have appeared in/on Time Magazine, People Magazine, MSNBC, Fox News, Forbes, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, NPR, Martha Stewart, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine, Parade, and Publishers Weekly.
About Lee Matthew Goldberg
Lee Matthew Goldberg is the Anthony, Lefty, and Prix du Polar nominated author of sixteen novels, including The Ancestor, The Mentor, and The Great Gimmelmans. His writing has also appeared as a contributor in CrimeReads, Pipeline Artists, LitHub, Chicago Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Jewish Book Council, The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Mystery Tribune and others. He is also the publisher of Fringe Press.
About Arin Greenwood
Arin Greenwood, a former lawyer, was the animal welfare editor for The Huffington Post, and now works with animal nonprofits to help save cats and dogs. Her novel Your Robot Dog Will Die was published by Soho Teen, and optioned by Centerboro Productions.
About Marie Hoy-Kenny
Marie Hoy-Kenny’s work has been published in several literary publications, including Shadow Lab: Volume One, trampset, Okay Donkey, and FlashBack Fiction. Marie’s debut young adult novel, The Girls from Hush Cabin, was published by Blackstone Publishing in 2023, and her debut picture book, This Plant is Not Boring, was published in April 2025 by Orca Book Publishers. Marie’s debut adult title, Something like Desire, was published in August 2026.
About Joanna Pickering
Joanna Pickering is an award-winning actress, playwright, and author. Her plays are produced and published worldwide and include award-winning Beach Break, The Endgame, Bad Victims, and Don’t Harm The Animals. Her solo one-act play, Lara’s Journey, live streamed to over one million viewers in a broadcast sponsored by Nova Ukraine. As an activist, she has collaborated with UN campaigns and gender rights initiatives. She holds a BSc in pure mathematics and is a member of The Actors Studio PDU, The Actors Gym, The International Center of Women Playwrights, the League of Professional Theater Women, and SAG.
About Tyrone Thomas
Tyrone Thomas is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island, where he earned a BA in Writing and Rhetoric and received the Gertrude Spencer Award for excellence in written English. A former US Navy submariner who later worked in support of Department of Defense submarine programs, he draws heavily from those experiences in his fiction. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at George Mason University and is a member of Crime Writers of Color.
