Codie Crowley
Codie Crowley once told a scary story that caused mass hysteria at a slumber party, and she’s been chasing that high ever since. When she isn't writing chilling fiction, she's probably out looking for ghosts in Salem, Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, their cat, and a collection of creepy dolls.
Her debut novel, Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch, is coming August 2024 from Disney-Hyperion.
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Amelinda Bérubé
I write about ghosts and monsters and other things that go bump in the night. My books tend to include a liberal sprinkling of weird Canadiana and the occasional zombie metaphor.
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I am an eternal fangirl for YA and SFF, but any book that makes me laugh, makes me cry, or creeps me out will have my heart forever. My very favorites tend to have a thinky, supernatural flavor and don't explain too much.
In my other lives I'm a public service editor, a mother of two, and a passionate gardener. I live in Ottawa, Canada, in a perpetual whirlwind of unfinished projects and cat hair. -
Shawna Coronado
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Shawna is an author, blogger, photographer, and spokesperson focused on wellness, organic-gardening, sustainability, and healthy eating who campaigns for social good. She has authored 9 books, 4 ebooks, and written thousands of blog posts.
Shawna's anti-inflammatory wellness initiatives and garden have been featured in many venues including PBS television, FOX News, NBC News, WGN TV, and a feature on WGN TV was been nominated for an Emmy award. Her organic living photographs and stories have been shown both online and off in many international home and garden magazines and multiple books. Shawna has been featured as a Chicago Tribune "Remarkable Woman" and has lectured at loc -
Isabel Strychacz
Isabel Strychacz is the author of the YA novel Starling (2021) and upcoming House of Thorns (out 2024). She grew up in a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she read all the books she could find and wrote the books she couldn’t.
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She received two degrees in English/Creative Writing and History from Mills College in Oakland, California, and is getting her MFA degree in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Sami Ellis
Sami Ellis is a queer horror writer inspired by the horrific nature of Black fears and the culture’s relation to the supernatural. When she's not the single auntie with a good job, she spends her time not writing. You can follow her @themoosef on Twitter, or check out her words in her debut novel Dead Girls Walking (2024).
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Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
Tatiana is the author of the horror novels Such Lovely Skin, The Mean Ones, and What Feeds Below (Fall 2026.) She has an MFA from The Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. When she’s not writing, she’s either gaming, lifting weights, or teaching people how to lift weights. She is of Japanese, Mexican, and European descent, and lives in Iowa.
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Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead girls and evil dolls, much to her teachers' dismay. All efforts to make her produce "normal" stories failed.
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Today, she continues to spin tales of ghosts and demons and werewolves, while safely locked away in her basement writing dungeon. She's the author of the NYT-bestselling "Women of the Otherworld" paranormal suspense series and "Darkest Powers" young adult urban fantasy trilogy, as well as the Nadia Stafford crime series. Armstrong lives in southwestern Ontario with her husband, kids and far too many pets. -
Loren Rhoads
Loren Rhoads is author of 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die and Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel.
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Loren is also author of This Morbid Life, a morbid memoir, and Unsafe Words, the first full-length collection of her edgy, award-winning stories.
She's the co-author of Lost Angels and its sequel Angelus Rose. She's also author of the space opera In the Wake of the Templars trilogy: The Dangerous Type, Kill By Numbers, and No More Heroes.
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Cindy R.X. He
Cindy R. X. He is the author of the YA thrillers This Is Where We Die (a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection), and Perfect Little Monsters (a Children's Book Council 2025 Young Adult, Teacher, and Librarian Favorites Awards Winner, an Arkansas Teen Book Award Nominee, as well as a finalist for the 2022 Daphne du Maurier Award, and the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award).
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Christine Riccio
Christine Riccio has been on a quest to encourage more humans to read since the third grade. No one really listened until she started making videos about books on Youtube in 2010. Now her channel PolandbananasBOOKS has over 390,000 book-loving subscribers. She makes comedic book reviews, vlogs, sketches, and writing videos chronicling the creation of her own novel. She’s also one of the three YouTubers behind BOOKSPLOSION. Originally from New Jersey, Christine graduated from Boston University in 2012 with a degree in Film and TV and now lives in Los Angeles, CA. Other hobbies include hot yoga and oatmeal.
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Mallory Arnold
Mallory Arnold is an editor and writer who resides in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and three cats. She's part of the Women's Fiction Writer's Association and enjoys writing drama, thrillers, and horror.
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Mason Coile
Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the award-winning author of ten novels, including The Demonologist, which won the International Thriller Writers Award, and Lost Girls, which was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year.
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Megan Lally
Megan Lally is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of That’s Not My Name. When she’s not writing dark and twisty young adult novels you might find her barefoot at the ocean, drinking one too many lavender lattes, or arguing about the validity of glitter as a favorite color. (It’s absolutely a color, and it’s the best one.) She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.
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Joelle Wellington
Joelle Wellington is the author of Their Vicious Games. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where her childhood was spent wandering the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. When she isn’t writing, she’s reading and when she’s not doing that, she’s attempting to bake bread with varying degrees of success or strengthening her encyclopedia-like pop culture knowledge. She can be found on Twitter under @joelle_welling.
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Olivia Worley
Olivia Worley is an author born and raised in New Orleans. A graduate of Northwestern University, she now lives in NYC, where she spends her time writing thrillers, over-analyzing episodes of The Bachelor, and hoping someone will romanticize her for reading on the subway.
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J.H. Markert
Also writes under James Markert.
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Justine Pucella Winans
Justine Pucella Winans (they/she) is a critically acclaimed and award winning author of queer fiction. They have written a variety of funny and/or scary books across age ranges, receiving accolades such as a Stonewall Honor, Indies Introduce, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selections, and multiple starred reviews. When not writing, she can be found taking too many photos of her cats, training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, actively avoiding real life scary situations, and working their true goal of becoming a Pokémon trainer.
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Josh Winning
Josh Winning is a nostalgia nut, book/film lover and author of The Shadow Glass , which is like Labyrinth meets Stranger Things, and Burn the Negative , which is like Scream meets My Best Friend's Exorcism.
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He is senior film writer at Radio Times, writer at Total Film, SFX and Den of Geek, and the co-host of movie podcast Torn Stubs. He has been on set with Kermit the Frog (and Miss Piggy), devoured breakfast with zombies on The Walking Dead, and sat on the Iron Throne on the Dublin set of Game of Thrones.
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Mary E. Roach
Mary E. Roach is an author of thrillers and romance for both the young adult and adult audiences. When Mary is not writing stories about powerful girls and women, she can be found teaching martial arts, baking an unreasonable amount of cookies, or taking off on thru-hikes through the wilderness of northern Minnesota.
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She can be found on Instagram at @maryeroachauthor (YA), @maryeroachwrites (Adult), or online at maryeroach.com.
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Virginia Feito
A native of Spain, Virginia Feito was raised in Madrid and Paris, and studied English and drama at Queen Mary University of London. She worked as a copywriter until she quit to write her debut novel. She lives in Madrid.
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Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison is the author of The Return, nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica and Electric Lit. She lives in New York with her husband and their cat/overlord.
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Daisy Pearce
Daisy Pearce was born in Cornwall and grew up on a smallholding surrounded by hippies. She read Stephen King’s 'Cujo' and The Hamlyn Book of Horror far too young and has been fascinated with the macabre ever since.
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She began writing short stories as a teenager and after spells living in London and Brighton Daisy had her first short story ‘The Black Prince’ published in One Eye Grey magazine. Another short story, ‘The Brook Witch’, was performed on stage at the Small Story Cabaret in Lewes in 2016. She has also written articles about mental health online. In 2015, The Silence won a bursary with The Literary Consultancy, and later that year Daisy also won the Chindi Authors Competition with her short story ‘Worm Food’. Her second novel was lon -
Jessica Goodman
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She is the former op-ed editor at Cosmopolitan magazine, and was part of the 2017 team that won a National Magazine Award in personal service. She has also held editorial positions at Entertainment Weekly and HuffPost, and her work has been published in outlets like Glamour, Condé Nast Traveler, The Cut, Elle, Bustle, and Marie Claire. -
Josh Malerman
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Jennifer Marie Thorne
Jennifer Thorne is the author of Lute and Diavola (a USA Today bestseller), published by Tor/Nightfire. With Lee Kelly, she is co-author of The Antiquity Affair (2023) and The Starlets (2024), published by HarperMuse. As Jenn Marie Thorne, she is the author of the YA novels The Wrong Side of Right, The Inside of Out, and Night Music, and her short fiction appeared in the YA anthology Battle of the Bands. She is also the author of the picture book Construction Zoo. She received her BFA in Drama at NYU, and currently lives in Gloucestershire, England with her husband and two sons.
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Adam Cesare
Adam Cesare is a New Yorker who lives in Philadelphia. His books include Clown in a Cornfield, Video Night, The Summer Job, and Zero Lives Remaining. He’s an avid fan of horror cinema and runs Project: Black T-Shirt, a YouTube review show where he takes horror films and pairs them with reading suggestions.
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Delilah S. Dawson
Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times-bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma, Black Spire: Galaxy's Edge, and The Perfect Weapon. With Kevin Hearne, she writes the Tales of Pell. As Lila Bowen, she writes the Shadow series, beginning with Wake of Vultures. Her other books include the Blud series, the Hit series, and Servants of the Storm.
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She's written comics in the worlds of Marvel Action: Spider-Man, Lore's Wellington, Star Wars Adventures, Star Wars Forces of Destiny, The X-Files Case Files, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, and her creator-owned comics include Star Pig, Ladycastle, and Sparrowhawk.
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Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix is the author of the novels Horrorstör, about a haunted IKEA, and My Best Friend's Exorcism, which is like Beaches meets The Exorcist, only it's set in the Eighties. He's also the author of We Sold Our Souls, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and the upcoming (July 13!) Final Girl Support Group!
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Nat Cassidy
NAT CASSIDY is a national bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author whose acclaimed works include Mary ("One of the Best Horror Novels of All Time" - Audible), Nestlings, and Rest Stop. Esquire described him as one "of the best horror writers of this generation" and among the writers "shaping horror's next golden age." His award-winning plays have been produced across the country, including Off-Broadway and the Kennedy Center. You've also maybe seen Nat guest-starring on shows such as Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Bull, Quantico, FBI, and many others ... but that's a topic for a different bio. His newest novel, When the Wolf Comes Home, hit shelves in April 2025 and was called "a classic" by Stephen King. He lives in New York City
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Paul Tremblay
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, the Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of the New York Times bestselling Horror Movie, The Beast You, Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted as the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. His short fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family. He is represented by Stephen Barbara, In
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Tracy Banghart
Tracy Banghart grew up in rural Maryland and spent her summers on a remote island in northern Ontario. All of that isolation and lovely scenery gave her the time to read voraciously and the inspiration to write her own stories. Always a bit of a nomad, Tracy now travels the world Army-wife style with her husband, kids, and pets.
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Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author thirty-five or so books. He really likes werewolves and slashers. Favorite novels change daily, but Valis and Love Medicine and Lonesome Dove and It and The Things They Carried are all usually up there somewhere. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado. It's a big change from the West Texas he grew up in.
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Marcus Kliewer
Marcus Kliewer is a writer and stop-motion animator. His debut novel We Used to Live Here began life as a serialized short story on Reddit, where it won the Scariest Story of 2021 award on the NoSleep forum (eighteen million members). Film rights were snapped up by Netflix, and it acquired by Simon & Schuster for publication even before it had been extended into a full-length novel. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
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Steve Catto
Steve Catto was born in Yorkshire, but his parents took him to Australia when he was six years old and he grew up there, sometimes racing cars across the desert.
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He was never very good at school, but the one thing he did learn was how to learn, and he started writing programs for the computer at the local university, much to the disdain of his teachers who told him that he would ‘never make a living out of that rubbish’. In his late teens he returned to the UK, and his parents followed him – which wasn’t what he wanted because he was hoping to get away from them.
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Lauren Carter
Lauren (she/they) is a library assistant by day and writer by night. She is the author of WHEN THE DEMONS TAKE HOLD and YOUR DARLING DEATH.
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Chandra Prasad
MERCURY BOYS: A YA NOVEL arrives on August 3, 2021. Want to pre-order the book and win some free prizes, including a beautiful, handwrought, fair trade bookmark? Visit chandraprasad.com for details.
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Or visit mercuryboys.com and learn about the book's plot and characters, as well as see the mysterious old photographs at the heart of the narrative.
My first young adult novel, Damselfly, is a classic island survival tale disrupted by the unexpected assertion of female control and an explosive reckoning over race and class.
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David Simmons
David lives in Baltimore with his wife and daughter. Simmons is the author of the fantastically bizarre “Ghosts of Baltimore Duology,” where the supernatural and strange grapple with the ever present past of East and West Baltimore. His work has appeared in Strange Horizons, the Washington Post, Brooklyn Vol. 1, Another Chicago Magazine, Hobart, Snarl, 3 Moon Magazine, Apocalypse Confidential, Tahoma Literary Review, Bridge Eight, Across The Margin, the Washington City Paper and numerous anthologies. He is a regular contributor to Books to Prisoners, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster a love of reading behind bars, encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-empowerment, and break the cycle of recidivism.
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Mike Mollman
Mike Mollman is a charming individual graced with good looks, undeniable charisma and humility. These descriptions come straight from his keyboard, so they must be treated as unimpeachable facts. When he’s not self-aggrandizing, Mike lives in the Richmond, Virginia area with his two dogs and the many voices in his head.
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Marie Hoy-Kenny
Marie Hoy-Kenny attended the University of Toronto, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Professional Writing and Communication. Her work has been published in several literary magazines, including trampset, Cosmonauts Avenue, and FlashBack Fiction. Her debut novel, THE GIRLS FROM HUSH CABIN, was published by Blackstone Publishing in 2023. Her short story INCARNATION will be published in Blackstone’s first SHADOW LAB anthology in November 2024, and her debut picture book, THIS PLANT IS NOT BORING, will be published in April 2025 by Orca Book Publishers.
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Wendy Skorupski
Wendy Skorupski had an international upbringing in Cyprus and Vienna and graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in England. She lives in the beautiful historic city of Krakow in Southern Poland and works in the field of international education. Her first dream was to be a concert pianist, just like Leah Cavanagh in her latest novel, Infinite Stranger, therefore she writes about this little-known world from first-hand experience. Infinite Stranger was also inspired by the murder of Wendy’s late mother’s fiancé, Peter Fox - a tragic event that changed the course of her life and provided the backdrop to the novel.
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Colm McElwain
Colm was raised and educated in Monaghan, Ireland. He has always loved storytelling, whether through literature or film. Orson the Great is his third novel. He is the author of the James Clyde book series.
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Owen W. Knight
Owen W. Knight writes contemporary and speculative fiction.
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He creates worlds based on documented myths, with elements of dystopia, mystery and science fiction to highlight the use and abuse of power and the conflicts associated with maintaining ethical values.
His works include Conditions Are Different After Dark, which combines contemporary horror with alternative history, The Visitors, a grounded sci-fi ‘first contact’ novel, Another Life, a retelling of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ for the 21st Century’ and The Invisible College Trilogy, an apocalyptic dystopian conspiracy tale for young adults, described as ‘1984 Meets the Book of Revelation’.
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Glen Dahlgren
Glen Dahlgren is the award-winning author of the acclaimed book series, the Chronicles of Chaos, which fantasy legend Piers Anthony called "what fantasy fiction should be."
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He is a two-time winner of the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal for YA Epic Fantasy for both his debut novel, the Child of Chaos, and the prequel, the Game of War. The former also won the American Fiction Award for Epic/High Fantasy and the latter also won the Dante Rossetti Award for YA Fantasy.
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Katie Lou
Katie is a versatile author who has explored various genres aimed at both children and adults.
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Writing children’s fiction as Katie Sahota since 2020, she has a strong belief in the power of books and writing to tackle important issues such as identity, inclusion and race, using her experiences of a gender-biased career and as the mother of two mixed race girls with her husband.
In 2023, Katie was diagnosed with breast cancer, a challenge that only strengthened her resolve and motivated her to fully commit to her writing during treatment.
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Edgar D. Jackson
Edgar D Jackson is an author based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was while growing up in London, England, however, that his love for writing first blossomed. As a teenager and into his twenties, Jackson became a writer for numerous culture and music magazines in the UK and the US.
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While reviews and interviews became his forte, fiction was always at the forefront of his mind. Specifically, sci-fi and supernatural fiction - based on his love of early Stephen King novels and those fuzzy, eerie sci-fi shows of the early 90's.
His debut novel, Seeing Dead, works to echo those genres. Often described as a ‘Scottish Stranger Things’, this book is a unique take on the Scottish ghost story, full of twists, turns, emotions, and horrors that will keep yo -
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Ingrid J. Adams
Ingrid J. Adams is the author of the Descended series, an award-nominated epic paranormal love story steeped in fantasy.
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Ingrid’s journey to becoming a writer was anything but conventional. With degrees in business tourism, journalism, kinesiology and nutrition, and a career spanning media, psychotherapy, and energetic healing, her diverse background has enriched her storytelling in ways she never could have imagined.
Today, she lives in chaos by the beach in Manly with her four beautiful boys (five if you count her husband), and her cavoodle (yes, another boy). She's a massive fan of travel, yoga, meditation, farmer's markets, cooking (and eating), ocean-swimming, skiing, and escaping into fictional worlds of her own and others' creation. -
David Leroy Harter Finch
I am a survivor of severe abuse... as a child, psychological abuse, sexual abuse and starvation. I have written a book that was 40 years in the making. In the last 3 years I have re dedicated myself to writing the narrative of my youth, my battle with C-PTSD and depression and my road to recovery. The message of my book is simple, no matter how bad the abuse was there is life after it ends. We can learn to live again. We can learn to trust again. Most importantly we can learn to love again.
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L.K. Brooks-Simpson
L.K. Brooks-Simpson is a native of London, England.
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Aside from his creative ventures, he is a strong supporter of philanthropy. He cites his biggest influences as J.R.R. Tolkien, Sanyika Shakur, J.K. Rowling, Tsugumi Ohba, Stan Lee and Maya Angelou, among many others.
Three sentences he would use to describe himself - A book is for the mind. Travel is for the heart. Family is for the soul.
Lara has always considered himself a student of literature and story form and for this reason, his taste is eclectic. Ranging from novels to manga - poems to screenwriting and even comic book story boards. Just as genres define certain works, there are a lot of elements that define his creative process. He has aspirations to write in many different genres. -
Christina Bacilieri
Christina Bacilieri is the author of the young adult fantasy The Last Refuge, the debut novel in her Stealing Sanctuary series. She’s a fan of all things magic and grew up on a steady diet of fantasy novels and pasta supplied by her loving grandmother. Her childhood favorites include A Wrinkle in Time and The Chronicles of Narnia.
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A graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio, she’s used her BBA in Marketing as a business relationship consultant and project manager.
When she’s not reading or writing, you can find her wandering through nature or taking in art at her favorite museums. She and her husband share their home in Texas with two snuggly pups and an abundance of books. -
Catherine Michaels
Catherine Michaels whisks you away to sun-drenched shores with her sweet, small-town romances. Get ready to laugh out loud, shed a tear (or two), and swoon over heartwarming characters you'll instantly connect with.
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Before she started writing romance, Catherine got a graduate degree and completed post-graduate studies in educating exceptional children. After years in the classroom and later corporate boardrooms, this award-winning author published five children’s books under the name Cat Michaels. During Covid, when she yearned for happiLy-ever afters, she started imagining her Gull Island series of sweet, small-town romances.
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Sydney Ashcroft
Sydney Ashcroft originally hails from Pennsylvania, but moved to New England over twenty years ago and has never looked back. She currently resides in Maine with a dog and two cats. During the day she works full time in the information technology field and writes by night. Tea, chocolate, and folk music fuel her through the day and writing sessions. When she’s not writing or working, she enjoys spending time with the dog and two cats, playing Dungeons and Dragons, seeing live music, and reading as much as she can.
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Lilla Glass
Lilla Glass is an award-winning author from Olympia, WA. While fantasy is her first love, she dabbles in horror and sci-fi. Her debut novel, The Unseen, was published on July 11th, 2023, by City Owl Press, and the second in the series, The Unfamiliar, was released the following year.
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In the rare event that she isn't writing, Lilla can be found wandering an endless labyrinth of books and games. Occasionally, her wonderful husband and friends abduct her and force her to socialize. -
Alan Lessik
Alan Lessik is a member of the Berlin Queer Writers Circle, Zen practitioner, amateur figure skater and LGBT activist. His debut novel The Troubleseeker was short-listed for the Publishing Triangle’s 2017 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. His non-fiction works and essays have been published by Lambda Literary (The Importance of Novels in Preserving Queer History), the Bay Area Reporter (Sex in the Time of Covid-19), Advocate (Marching to Pretoria), and, San Francisco Bay Guardian. Recently, he was a guest on Andrew. G. Marshall’s Podcast, The Meaningful Life, and previously had radio essays on KQED Radio and performed as a storyteller at the Moth. For three years, he moderated or participated in panels on queer fiction at the Associati
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Janna Jennings
Janna is a Colorado based YA author who loves a good fairy tale. She’s married to her own real life Prince Charming, and will usually admit to being mom of three, including her incorrigible middle child, Benny. Besides wrangling her kids she can be found doing some therapeutic baking, dreaming of the ocean, and of course, curling up with a good book.
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Jane Anderson
I am an Edinburgh based writer of historical fiction. I was born in Fife and originally studied English Literature at Edinburgh University. I spent most of my life living overseas in countries as far-flung as Vietnam, Azerbaijan and most recently, Egypt.
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I travelled extensively, including visiting Moscow and St Petersburg. Retelling history from the point of view of women is where the fun begins.
Edinburgh is a great place to be a writer and I am very active in the local writing community. I help to run two literary organisations here: The Edinburgh Writers’ Forum and the Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival.
My next novel The Orchid Hunter’s Daughter will come out towards the end of 2025. -
M. N. Rosen
M. N. Rosen has worked for more than 20 years in the financial services industry, most recently for a foundation which invests in climate-focused technology businesses.
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In The Consciousness Company he draws on his experience working with early-stage technology and impact businesses, as well as for private equity and venture capital firms, and, at the beginning of his career, an investment bank.
M. N. Rosen is 44 years old and lives in North London with his wife and three young children. He graduated from New College, Oxford in 2001 with a first-class degree in philosophy, politics and economics. -
Tom Collins
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L.G. Jenkins
Lydia Jenkins is an author, book-lover and coffee drinker. When she isn't immersed in writing dystopian worlds, you'll either find her reading in a coffee shop, playing netball or spending time with friends in 'sunny' England.
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She loves dystopia as a genre and so recommends dystopian reading for teens, young adults and adults on her website blog - the dystopian digest. Check it out at lgjenkins.com
Sun of Endless Days is her debut novel and she hopes to encourage others in their purpose, worth and faith through writing for years to come.
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Diane Clarke
The Bracelet is Diane’s second novel. Her debut, The Photograph, was published by Wings ePress Inc. in 2024. Her other writing credits include flash fiction and short stories published in several anthologies including the Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition – 2nd place (2019) and longlisted (2020).
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Though happily settled in Brisbane, Australia, since 1996, much of her inspiration comes from the UK. Using stunning locations as the backdrop, her novels feature restless women craving truth, identity and love. She propels her female protagonists into complex family predicaments where they must deal with the agony of missing siblings, absent fathers or ethical dilemmas.
When not writing she takes long walks in the Australian bush, upcy