What author is well known for writing speculative fiction and featured cover art by her brother on one of her books?
C. J. Cherryh Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels "Downbelow Station" (1981) and "Cyteen" (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe. She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology. Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies.
Leland Myrick Leland Myrick is an author and illustrator. He was born in Missouri and currently lives in Pasadena, California. In 1999, he was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for "The Sweet Collection", and in 2004 he was awarded a Xeric Grant to create "Bright Elegy". In 2006, he published a graphic novel titled "Missouri Boy". A short story titled "Sustain This Song" was published in summer 2010 in Flight volume 7. A short story titled "The Collector" was published in summer 2011 in Flight volume 8. He illustrated "Feynman" (about Richard Feynman, written by Jim Ottaviani) for First Second Books, published in August 2011 and it has been announced that they will also collaborate on a biography of Stephen Hawking. His first fantasy novel, "The Ten", was named to "Kirkus Reviews" Best Indie Books of 2012.