Dark stories and the darkness of history lie close together for Iver Niklas Schwarz. Whether as a thriller writer or as an archaeologist under his real name: Wherever Iver sets his tools to work, he encounters riddles and secrets, mysteries and hidden things - and sometimes even death.
Iver Niklas Schwarz lives with his wife and two tomcats in the heart of Germany on a farm that has experienced unnatural deaths, an epidemic and a major fire in the last hundred years. In addition to his work as a novelist, Iver is also active as a story provider for crime and escape games.

Martin Ehrenhauser, born 1978 in Linz, is a former EU Member of Parliament and author. He lives in Brussels and Linz.

Fabian Neidhardt was born in 1986, the first of four into a Polish-Italian family. After a traineeship in broadcasting, he studied elocution and communication pedagogy at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart as well as literary writing at the Literature Institute in Hildesheim. Until May 2019, he completed training as a storyliner at the UFA Series School in Potsdam. Since 2010, he has been sitting with his typewriter in pedestrian zones as a street poet, writing texts on demand.

Edith Schreiber-Wicke, grew up in Steyr (Upper Austria), studied theatre studies and art history in Vienna. She first wrote advertising texts, then as a freelance author she wrote short stories, poetry, novels, screenplays, children's and youth literature. She has received numerous Austrian and international prizes for her work.
The author lives in Vienna, Grundlsee and Venice.

The writer and journalist Dr. Wolfgang Herles wrote six socially critical novels as well as numerous, mainly political non-fiction books. Wir sind kein Volk was on the Spiegel Besteller list for weeks. His criticism of the quota mania of the public service media Die Gefallsüchtigen fuelled the current debate. Most recently - in 2019 - his cultural history of German cuisine Vorwiegend festkochend was published.