Join Loyalty in welcoming back KJ Charles, T. Kingfisher, Malka Older, and Martha Wells for round two of a VIRTUAL Comfort Reads Panel! Grab your blankets, your tea (or coffee) and get cozy as these author friends discuss their books and comfort reads for when the world is on fire. This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast and is free to attend. Click here to register for the event. You can also order any of the authors' books from our website to be added to the event's registration list, and there will also be an option to snag the book during the event.

KJ Charles spent twenty years as an editor in British publishing before fleeing the scene to become a full-time novelist, writing historical romance, fantasy and mystery. She has written some thirty novels and her books have been translated into eight languages. She lives next to a magpie-haunted London park, with a supportive husband, two eye-rolling teenagers, and a cat with a history of violence.

T. Kingfisher (she/her) writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, including Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead, Thornhedge, A House with Good Bones, and A Sorceress Comes to Call. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children's books. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, dogs, and chickens who may or may not be possessed.

Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. She is the Executive Director of Global Voices, a community of writers, editors, and translators providing community journalism from all over the world and advocating for indigenous and minority languages, media literacy, digital rights, and online freedom of expression. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named among the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, the Washington Post, and Book Riot; with sequels, it was a finalist for a Hugo award. The Mimicking of Known Successes, a murder mystery set on Jupiter, was on four best of 2023 lists and was a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Ignyte awards for Best Novella. The sequel, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, was named one of the best science-fiction books of 2024 by Esquire, and the third book in the series, The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, comes out in June 2025. She is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University, where she teaches on predictive fictions. Her opinions can be found in The New York Times, The Nation, and Foreign Policy, among other places.

Martha Wells has been writing science fiction and fantasy since 1993. Her work includes The Murderbot Diaries, The Books of the Raksura, the Ile-Rien series, and most recently Witch King and its sequel Queen Demon, as well as other novels, short fiction, non-fiction, and media tie-ins. She is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and her work has won Nebula, Hugo, Locus Awards, and an Alex Award and a Dragon Award. It has also appeared on the World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, and the British Science Fiction Association Award ballots, as well as the New York Times, USA Today, and the Sunday Times Bestseller Lists. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages.

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COMFORT READS PANEL with KJ Charles, T. Kingfisher, Malka Older, and Martha Wells