Cynthia Murphy
Cynthia is a YA writer from the North-West of England. She has always enjoyed writing and when her English teacher accused her of plagiarism in Year 8, she thought she might actually be quite good at it.
She has a long-standing love affair with all things scary, reading Point Horrors at primary school before graduating to Stephen King in her misguided teens. Classic 90s and 00s horror movies are definitely her pub quiz strong point and her first love may well have been Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Studying for a degree in Art History and Archaeology meant that she developed a thirst for anything old, beautiful and very often dead. She tries to combine this with contemporary settings in her writing to make unique and chilling modern stories.
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Creative director and fantasy-epic writer. Floridian living in California. Lover of sci-fi/fantasy, greek epics and slashers, Lovecraft and vampires.
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Andrea Contos
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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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Margot McGovern
Margot McGovern lives in Adelaide and has a creative writing PhD from Flinders University. Her debut novel, Neverland, was shortlisted for the Text Prize and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
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Her second novel, This Stays Between Us, will be published in March 2025.
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S.B. Caves
S.B. Caves was born and raised in North London. He loves crime and thriller novels, classic horror movies, Korean/Japanese thriller films and true crime documentaries. He is also a huge boxing fan.
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Sophie Davis
Author of twenty-six books in six series, Sophie Davis is a pseudonym for best friends turned co-authors. The pair met in law school and instantly bonded over their love of great books and bad horror movies. When one longed for the ability to read minds so she wouldn't have to study for the bar exam, they created a dystopian world with superpowers that spans nine books.
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While writing in genres of paranormal romance, time travel, urban fantasy, and mystery, their works have been optioned for film and translated for an international audience. You can find them teaching their dogs to enter wormholes in the desert of Southern California.
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Mandy Morton
Mandy Morton began her professional life as a musician. Her songwriting formed the basis of six albums during the 1970s and early 1980s, when she toured extensively with her band. More recently, she has worked as a freelance arts journalist for national and local radio, specialising in making music and theatre documentary. She is the co-author of a non-fiction theatre book, In Good Company, and lives with her partner in Cambridge and Cornwall, where there is always a place for an ageing long-haired tabby cat. The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency is her first novel, and begins a series of books inspired by her first cat, Hettie.
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Joey Batey
Joey Batey was raised in the North East of England. He read Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge where he was shortlisted (2012) and winner (2013) of the Cambridge Footlights Harry Porter Prize for New Writing. Since graduating, he has worked as an actor, director, musician and playwright, and is best known for his role in flagship Netflix show The Witcher. Joey writes and directs music videos, live sessions and short films for his alt-folk group The Amazing Devil, who released their third studio album in 2022, as well occasionally performing stand-up in his spare time.
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H.K. Sears
H. K. Sears is a writer from Shropshire, and, growing up, she owned more books than toys. She’s spent her life devouring tales of fantasy and magic, and now loves to take inspiration from history to craft her own fantasy novels.
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Faye Bird
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Naomi Gibson
Naomi Gibson was born in 1988 and grew up in Cheshire, UK. Her childhood was spent with her nose in a book and her hands on a sketchpad, constantly in search of adventure and new worlds. Encouraged by her family to be creative, she developed a love for writing at a young age – something that never left her. She studied Art History at the University of Manchester. Whilst there, she met her husband, someone who continues to tell her all about the latest advancements in AI, space, and consumer technology, even when she’s not listening. Every Line Of You is her first novel, and proof she does in fact listen to her husband.
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N.M. Browne
I was born in Burnley, Lancs (England) and lived not too far from Pendle Hill - the haunt of witches and all manner of strangeness. This may have had an effect on my imagination.
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My father was a painter and teacher and my mother was a teacher too. Both were Welsh and this has probably had an impact on my imagination too. The whole family headed for Wales every holiday so that even now Wales is inextricably linked with long car journeys, holidays, family and general happiness.
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Charles Benoit
When he's not traveling around the globe in the search of exotic, tax-deductible settings for his mysteries, Charles Benoit spends his days pumping out subliminal-laced advertising.
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Nominated for an Edgar and a Barry, Relative Danger won the Franklin award and was the darling of fans and critics alike. Out of Order (2006) is set in modern India while Noble Lies (September 2007) takes place in Thailand. -
Belle Ward
Belle Ward wrote her first series RISE OF THE OLYMPIANS at age 14 after she graduated from high school. This series focuses on your favorite tales from Greek mythology spun with a modern twist. RISE is filled with adventure, action, wit, and humor.
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When Belle's not writing she enjoys riding her horse, Cimmaron. Belle loves reading, traveling to new places, studying politics, and drawing. In the past few years Belle has visited London, New York City, Dallas, Austin, Aruba, and the Cayman Islands.
This native born Texan lives in with her family in a rural town and her puppy, Pixel. -
Jacqueline Silvester
Jacqueline has had a colourful and dual life thus far; she's lived in a refugee camp in Sweden, a castle in France, a village in Germany, and spent her formative years in between Los Angeles, London and New York. As a result, she speaks four languages. In 4th grade she won her school's poetry contest and she has not stopped writing since. She has written in many forms ranging from poetry to screenwriting, from prose to copywriting, and on one occasion a viral jingle.
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Jacqueline has a Bachelors in English Literature from the University Of Massachusetts, and a Masters in Screenwriting from Royal Holloway, University Of London. After graduating she wrote her first novel and began writing (and selling) cartoon screenplays. The two years she spe -
Casie Bazay
Casie Bazay is a former middle school teacher turned full time writer/editor. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring the great outdoors, spending time at the barn with her horses and goats, reading, and watching movies (especially young adult novel adaptations). She lives on a hay farm in northeastern Oklahoma with her husband and two children but loves traveling to new and exciting destinations whenever she can.
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T.L. Combs
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I spent almost two decades as a classically trained chef, working in multiple restaurants and catering companies. Eventually, I started my own catering company and even worked as a Certified Dietary Manager in a healthcare facility. In 2015, I married the love of my life, M.
Following the birth of our youngest child, L, I made the decision to retire from my career in the culinary industry and become a stay-at-home mother to L and my bonus daughter,
K. We all reside on our little farm in North Carolina where we enjoy raising chickens, cultivating our gardens, and spending time with our beloved Maremma Sheep Dog, Ronan, and tuxedo tabby, Ziggy.
Writing has always been a passion of mine, dating back to my childhood in Pennsylvania, when I would -
J.L. Myers
I'm USA Today Bestselling author J.L. Myers, and I have an addiction. Books, books, and did I mention, books! I love all things supernatural and romance, with shades of betrayal, danger, characters you love, and characters you love to hate. Taking the leap from reader to writer was an inevitable step for me and I've never looked back. I love to live in my make-believe worlds (real! shhh, don't tell anyone :)
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Learn more about me on my website at www.jlmyers.com or come say Hi! on my Facebook fan page https://www.facebook.com/author.jlmyers/Books, books, and did I mention, books! I love all things supernatural and romance, with shades of betrayal, danger, characters you love, and characters you love to hate. Taking the leap from reader to wri -
Emma Read
Emma is the award-winning author of the Milton the Mighty series (The Times book of the year) and brand new spooky standalone, The Housetrap. She also co-wrote Panda in the Spotlight with Sarah Horne, all with Chicken House Books.
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When not writing, Emma is a freelance novel editor with EmDashED and a writing tutor and mentor with WriteMentor.
She loves Hallowe'en, sci-fi, and board games, and plays too much Fortnite. She lives in the southwest of the UK with her cat and two pet children ... is that right??