Karla is the author of the Aldo Zelnick comic novel series, which has been honored with a Book of the Year award (Foreword Reviews), a Colorado Book Award, and a Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Regional Book Award, among others. She has worked as a writer and editor for more than twenty years and has ghostwritten dozens of books. Karla and her husband, Scott, live in Colorado with their three tween and teenage boys in a house strewn with Legos, hockey gear, Pokemon cards, video games, books, and dirty socks.
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Kendra Spanjer
Kendra divides her time between being "a writer who illustrates" and "an illustrator who writes." She is currently in cahoots with Karla on the clever, collaborative Aldo Zelnick comic novel series for middle-grade readers. When she invents spare time for herself to fill, Kendra enjoys skiing, cycling, exploring, discovering new music, watching trains go by, decorating cakes with her sister and making faces in the mirror.
Amy Greene
Amy is an intern at Bailiwick Press who is finishing up English and philosophy degrees at Colorado State University. Like Aldo, she's a pretty artsy-fartsy person who spends most of her free time drawing, painting, and immersing herself in books, but she also likes tennis and cross-country running. A stickler for spelling, grammar, and punctuation, Amy has just found her forte with literary editing—a skill she hopes to put to use one day in writing and publishing books of her own.
Gretchen Comcowich
Gretchen Comcowich is a senior English major at Colorado State University who writes fiction and non-fiction. When she’s not writing, she enjoys riding other people's horses, being outside, learning odd historical facts, and beading. She is a Colorado native and thinks the high altitude is good for the soul.
Leon Sandler
Leon goes to college mostly so he can read and write stories. By day he works in the CSU Writing Center as an audacious academic hero, helping students from across Fort Collins become better writers. In his secret identity, though, Leon likes to chillax at his fortress of solitude, reading comic books and studying Buddhism. He loves really old books and ancient languages.