Book Club Discussion Guide If you like this Author try . . . Unearthly by Cynthia Hand Wings by Aprilynne Pike Vampire academy by Richelle Mead Evernight by Claudia Gray Wicked lovely by Melissa Marr Nightshade by Andrea R. Cremer City of bones by Cassandra Clare Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Abandon by Meg Cabot Author Information OTHER BOOKS IN THE CASTER CHRONICLES # 2 BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS # 3 BEAUTIFUL CHAOL # 4 BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION Kami Garcia is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and international bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures Novels (Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos & Beautiful Redemption). Beautiful Creatures has been published in 48 countries and translated in 37 languages. The Beautiful Creatures movie releases in theaters on February 13,. Kami is also the author of Unbreakable, the first book her solo series, The legion is currently being developed as a major motion picture. Kami grew up outside of Washington D.C., wore lots of black, and spent hours writing poetry in spiral notebooks. As a girl with Southern roots, she has always been fascinated by the paranormal and believes in lots of things “normal” people don’t. She’s very superstitious and would never sleep in a room with the number “13″ on the door. When she is not writing, Kami can usually be found watching disaster movies, listening to Soundgarden, or drinking Diet Coke. Kami has an M.A. in education, and taught in the Washington D.C. area until she moved to Los Angeles, where she was a teacher & Reading Specialist for 14 years. In addition to teaching, Kami was a professional artist and led fantasy book groups for children and teens. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, daughter, and their dogs Spike and Oz (named after characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Margaret Stohl is the author of Ions, the first book in the Icons Series, forthcoming from Little, Brown in Spring 2013–as well as the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Indie-Bound and Internationally Bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures Novels (with Kami Garcia.) Including Beautiful creatures, Beautiful darkness, Beautiful chaos, Beautiful redemtpion–along with Dreamdark, a Beautiful Creatures story available exclusively online–the Beautiful Creatures Novels have been translated into 28 languages and 37 countries. The Beautiful Creatures movie based on the books comes out February 14, 2013 from Alcon and Warner Bros. Beautiful Creatures was an ALA William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist in 2010, as well as a SCIBA award finalist, a NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and a YALSA Teen Top Ten Pick. Beautiful Creatures was named the #1 Teen Pick from Amazon in 2009, and the #5 Editors Pick, overall. A longtime veteran of the videogame industry, Margaret’s work includes–to name a few–Spiderman, Fantastic four, Dune 2000, The pirates of the Caribbean: The legend of Jack Sparrow Defender, The sopranos, After working with Activision and Westwood Studios, Margaret became a co-founder of 7 Studios with her husband, Lewis Peterson. She has previously been nominated for “Most Innovative Game Design” at the Game Developers Conference. Margaret has participated in the Nashville Screenwriters Conference, the Tribu dei Lettori in Rome, and the BAU Institute/ Otranto Residency, as well as the LA Times Festival of Books, Romantic Times, and the Texas Book Festival. She was the Director of Programming for the 2011 YA Capitol Bookfest in Charleston, SC, and a founding member of the Smart Chicks tour. Margaret has been featured in Amherst Reads, and is a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. She has been a member of the WGA West and PEN West. Margaret’s original screenplays have been optioned by Clasky-Csupo and Nickelodeon Movies for feature film. A graduate of Amherst College, where she won the Knox Prize for English Literature, Margaret earned a M.A. in English from Stanford University, and completed classwork for a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Margaret was a teaching assistant in Romantic Poetry at Stanford, and in Film Studies at Yale. She attended the Creative Writing Program of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where she was mentored by the Scottish poet George MacBeth. Margaret loves traveling the world with her daughters, who are epee fencers, and living in Santa Monica with her husband, also a writer, and two bad beagles. Photo and author Information taken from Margaret Stohl’s website: www.margaret-stohl.com Photo and author information taken from Kami Garcia’s website: www.kamigarcia.com