Jeff Zentner is author of New York Times Notable Books The Serpent King and In the Wild Light, winner of the American Library Association's William C. Morris Award, long-listed for the Carnegie Medal, AND two-time Southern Book Prize finalist. And oh yeah, in an earlier life he was a musician who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. His new novel, Colton Gentry's Third Act is a "Read This Next!" SIBA book which Rae Ann Parker of Parnassus Books calls "a laugh-out-loud funny story told in beautiful language, full of heart." (She also calls Zentner "the Southern Emily Henry.")

Nathan Gower's work has been published in Baltimore Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, Louisville Magazine, Louisville Review, New Southerner, Santa Fe Literary Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review and elsewhere. He is Professor of English at Campbellsville University in Kentucky, and The Act of Disappearing is his first novel. Silas House says that it is "a perfectly calibrated balance of propulsive suspense and elegant prose, resulting in a complex and beautifully written debut."

Ace Atkins is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author who started his writing career as a crime beat reporter in Florida. Don’t Let the Devil Ride is his thirtieth novel. His previous novels include eleven books in the Quinn Colson series and multiple true-crime novels based on infamous crooks and killers. In 2010, he was chosen by Robert B. Parker’s family to continue the iconic Spenser series, adding ten novels to the franchise. Don Winslow calls Atkins "diabolically talented."