Debra Castaneda
Debra Castaneda is an award-winning author of urban fantasy and dark fiction based on the central coast of California.
Her works include Barely Magic, the first book in the Maddy Madrigal Mysteries series of urban fantasy novels; The Spore Queen, The Devil’s Shallows, The Root Witch, The Copper Man, Circus at Devil’s Landing, and A Dark and Rising Tide, which comprise the Dark Earth Rising series of standalone novels, and The Monsters of Chavez Ravine, an International Latino Book Awards gold medal winner.
Debra loves writing character-driven stories about people who experience scary or magical things, and how they react when confronted with the unexpected. She’s committed to representing Latinas and Latinos in her books.
For inspiration, she
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I grew up in the US Pacific Northwest, and after twenty years roaming the country with the US Air Force, I'm back. I have a spouse, three kids, and a dog named Pippin.
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Mark Towse
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Matt Shaw
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MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.
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Duncan Ralston
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D.E. McCluskey
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I started writing at Christmas, back in the days of yore. I was reading The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore to my daughter who was too excited to sleep. But, I used my secret weapon, my boring voice she was soon catching the right amount of zzzzz's... As I tiptoed out of the room, giving Santa the space he needed to do his bit, I thought to myself, you know what? I could write something like that...
So I did...
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Jay Bower
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Megan Stockton
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Eric Butler
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Bridgett Nelson
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M.L. Rayner
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Andrew Najberg
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Daemon Manx
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Sarah Jules
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Eric Butler
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Bridgett Nelson
Once an operating room registered nurse, Bridgett Nelson so enjoyed playing with human organs, she decided to turn her macabre interest into a horror writing career. She loves bubble baths (because nothing says spooooky writer like orange-scented bubbles), hates not knowing what’s swimming in the water with her, lives for Halloween season (but loathes chainsaw-wielding dudes in haunted houses), adores her West Virginia University Mountaineers, is very pro-Oxford comma, and thinks bananas are absolutely disgusting.
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She has written four novels - YOU INVITED IT IN, YOU NEED TO LEAVE, DON'T LIE & FOUND YOU - edited BLOODY HELL: An Anthology of UK Indie Horror, and has co-edited GOOD FOR HER (alongside Shauna Mc Eleney and TC Parker of Nefarious Bat Press).
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Ben Young
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Mel Todd
Hey everyone! I'm Mel Todd and I live in Atlanta, Georgia at this moment. I write mostly romance free urban fantasy, urban science fiction, and soon fantasy.
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Here are 4 truths and one lie about myself.
1 - I know how to milk a goat.
2- I once propositioned Dean Cain.
3 - I had my picture taken with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner.
4 - I have driven across the US.
5 - I have a library with over 2000 RPG books.
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D.E. McCluskey
I love horror, and I love Christmas. Some would say that the two are not mutually associated, I would tell you different.
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I started writing at Christmas, back in the days of yore. I was reading The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore to my daughter who was too excited to sleep. But, I used my secret weapon, my boring voice she was soon catching the right amount of zzzzz's... As I tiptoed out of the room, giving Santa the space he needed to do his bit, I thought to myself, you know what? I could write something like that...
So I did...
The good Behaviour Act was written, the first story in Interesting Tymes, my very first publication.
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Matt Shaw
Biography
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MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.
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Kayla Frederick
Raised in Michigan but moved to Texas and has experienced the best and worst of both. Kayla has interests in the dark and macabre. She enjoys '80's music and movies. A little neurotic and a huge lover of Halloween, creepy stories and cats are totally her jam.
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Jim Ody
Jim spent 10 years writing music reviews and interviewing bands for a rock music website. He also contributed lifestyle and comedic features and poems to a number of websites.
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Jim writes Horror, YA and Dark Mysteries that often end with his trademark twists! He doesn't believe in being restrained by genres and looks to blur the lines between them.
He has had eighteen novels, and well over a dozen short stories published, and re-published by Question Mark Press, Question Mark Horror, Hambrook Press, SpellBound Books, Wolfgang Press, Limitless Publishing, Zombie Cupcake, Crazt Ink, and Bloodhound Books.
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Steve Stred
An award-winning author, Steve Stred lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with his wife and son.
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Known for his novels, ‘Mastodon,’ ‘Churn the Soil,’ and his series ‘Father of Lies’ where he joined a cult on the dark web for four years, his work has been described as haunting, bleak and is frequently set in the woods near where he grew up. He’s been fortunate to appear in numerous anthologies with some truly amazing authors.
His novel ‘Mastodon’ will be translated into Czech and Italian over the next few years.
His novel 'Churn the Soil' won the Best Horror Novel award in the 2024 Indieverse Awards.
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Andrew Van Wey
Andrew Van Wey was born in Palo Alto, California, spent part of his childhood in New England, and lived in South Korea for over a decade.
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When he's not writing, Andrew can be found mountain biking, playing video games, or hiking with his wife and their sheepdog Arthas. He loves education, geeking out about D&D and fountain pens, and collecting tattoos.
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Jeremy Bates
USA TODAY and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates has written over twenty novels and novellas, selling more than one million copies worldwide. His work has been translated into multiple languages and optioned for film and television by major studios. Midwest Book Review has likened his storytelling to that of Stephen King and Joe Lansdale, calling him a "master of the art." Bates is a KDP Select All-Star and the recipient of the Australian Shadows Award and the Canadian Arthur Ellis Award. He was also a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book honors chosen by readers.
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Hubert L. Mullins
Hubert L. Mullins writes gripping tales of horror and survival that blend history, folklore, and the supernatural. His novels, including Blood & Salt and Under Bethel, immerse readers in worlds where myth and terror collide. When he isn’t writing, he’s exploring the darker corners of history to unearth the next chilling story.
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Todd Keisling
TODD KEISLING is the two-time Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author of Devil’s Creek, Scanlines, Cold, Black & Infinite, and most recently, The Sundowner’s Dance, among several others. A pair of his earlier works were recipients of the University of Kentucky’s Oswald Research & Creativity Prize for Creative Writing (2002 and 2005), and his second novel, The Liminal Man, was an Indie Book Award finalist in Horror & Suspense (2013). He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.
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Llrâc Nôdbé
Llrâc Nôdbé (pronounced ‘Lark Nod-Bee’), or simply Lark for short, was born in the Sirhowy Valley, South Wales in 1970 and has spent most of his life arguing with the voices in his head, although, he usually loses.
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Therefore, he writes whatever the voices tell him to write, and they don't always have something nice to say.
Because he’s spent most of his life there, Lark tends to live in the past, and you can find him lurking around the 80's.
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His debut novel, CRULUS, is set in the fictional town of Draigwen, Wales in 1981 and follows bullied schoolboy, Dylan Wolfendale, who uses Nekrôspiél to ta -
Jessica Drake-Thomas
Jessica Drake-Thomas is a poet and PhD student. She's a poetry editor at Coffin Bell Journal. She's the author of Burials, a gothic horror poetry collection.
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Stephen Barnard
Stephen Barnard has been writing fiction (and non-fiction cricket exploits) for a number of years. The success of his short story collection 'A Very Bad Year' encouraged him to push further. He now has over 20 published works, mainly in the horror/suspense genre. When he's not writing he teaches, reads, snoozes and binge-watches horror films.
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Ronald McGillvray
Ronald McGillvray is a writer from Ottawa, Canada. He’s published short stories, scripts, novellas and his most recent novel “The Candy Witch,” available now as a print or ebook. He is currently working on a new novel. His novel, “Cutter’s Deep,” his short horror story collection, “Tales From The Parkland,” and his fantasy novella, “James’ Journey To Dreamland,” are all available as a print or ebook. "Tales From The Parkland" is also available as an audiobook.
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His writing credits include the short story, “The Garbage Collectors,” which was published in Horror Library Volume 2 as well as in their best of anthology. His short story “Ukrainian Chimes” was published in the anthology Screaming For Peace. An audio version of his story, “Big Boy,” -
C.L. Schneider
Born in the Midwest, I live in New York's scenic Hudson Valley Region with my husband and two sons. A huge reader since childhood, I penned my first full-length novel in high school on a typewriter in my parent's living room. That was when my dream of becoming a published author was born. Life happened, and it took a while, but I can honestly say: it's the best job ever.
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If you're looking for puppies, rainbows, and sweet romance, you won't find that here. My stories tend to run dark, gritty, and adult, full of action, magic, intrigue, antiheroes, mysteries and monsters.
You can learn more about me and my work at clschneiderauthor.com where you can read reviews, excerpts and sneak peeks, subscribe to my newsletter, and join my Street Team. Con -
Jessica Gleason
Jessica Gleason finds writing horror therapeutic. So, she puts her nightmares to paper for your enjoyment. As a Hawaiian-Italian, she often draws from her cultural background and lived experience to bring occult-flavored and slasheriffic horror to life. If you look hard enough, you can catch her singing hair metal karaoke somewhere between Chicago and Milwaukee. Her daytime persona is a college professor in the American Midwest. Jessica's recent releases include “Playing Hooky” (Unnerving Books), and “The Dangerous Miss Ventriloquist” (Evil Cookie Publishing). Follow her on Instagram or Threads (@j.g.writes), where she hosts the #WeWriteHorror challenge.
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Brenda Lyne
Brenda Lyne lives just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota with her two busy kids, two cats, two fish, and probably a partridge in a pear tree. She is living, breathing proof that it is never too late to follow your dreams.
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Ryan Hoyt
Ryan Hoyt is a San Francisco Bay Area native currently residing near Sacramento, CA. His love for creepy and fantastic stories was nurtured early on by his mother, who let him watch the TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s It at six years old.
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Daisy Graves
Daisy Graves writes paranormal cozy mysteries filled with psychic sleuths, magical cats, spooky B&Bs, and fog-drenched small towns. Her stories blend midlife heroines, community secrets, and atmospheric gothic charm—perfect for fans of Beth Dolgner, Annabel Chase, Lily Harper Hart, Kirsten Weiss, and Tricia O'Malley.
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Based in Ireland, Daisy creates cozy mysteries with a supernatural twist, where amateur detectives discover magical abilities and solve murder most mystical. Her debut novel, Grave Beginnings, introduces psychic investigator Lenora Blackwell and her familiar, Shadow the guardian cat, in the witchy coastal town of Eldergloom.
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Patrick James Ryan
Patrick Ryan is from Columbus, Ohio and started dabbling in writing after college. After marrying Molly and living through the sports and activities of their children for several years he reignited his passion for writing with the publication of the popular short story collection, "Blood Verse" in less than a year. He is known for writing riveting action scenes. He followed up Blood Verse with the number one best seller at Black Bed Sheet Books, "The Night It Got Out," the 70's period novella, "The Maggots Underneath the Porch," a poetry collection titled, "Blood Prose," a sequel to The Night It Got Out: "The Night They Got Out," and a second short story collection, "Out of The Shadows." Most recently, he launched a multi-series collection
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Valerie Taylor
Valerie Taylor lives in Connecticut and considers herself a typical "average Jane." She might remind you of the reclusive neighbor who fancies herself a novelist. Unlike many of her peers whom she admires, she does NOT have a degree in literature. But she is the award-winning author of the romantic comedy trilogy: What's Not SAID, What's Not TRUE, What's Not LOST. The roots of those three novels, as well as the first two books in the Venus Bixby Mystery series—A WHALE OF A MURDER and SWITCHED AT DEATH—most likely took hold during her early years watching Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, and The Twilight Zone. Her love of oldies music stems from hours listening and dancing to Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and being in the Bobby Dari
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Brett McKay
When Brett McKay is not conjuring demons and bloodthirsty psychopaths to put on paper, he sells landscaping. He loves all types of music, but hard rock and heavy metal fuel him the most. He enjoys the outdoors, spending time with friends and family, and curling up in front of a good movie with his wife and a bucket of popcorn.
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Brett lives in Utah with his wife and two sons. Fall is his favorite time of year because he gets to decorate his house for Halloween much too early for his neighbors.
His short story, Ol' Betsy, was the winner of 2018's Seattle Crypticon. He is also an active member of The International Thriller Writers.
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Renee S. DeCamillis
Renee S. DeCamillis is a horror author and editor, and the author of the psychological thriller/supernatural horror/bizarro novella The Bone Cutters. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the New England Horror Writers, and the Horror Writers of Maine. Renee is the singer/songwriter and rhythm guitarist for the punk-metal band Scars Aligned. She's also a tree-hugging hippie with a sharp metal edge. And she has a comic book forthcoming.
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Her next book, Chisel the Bone, will be published on July 23, 2024, through Encyclopocalypse Publications. It is the sequel to The Bone Cutters.
Renee’s short fiction appears in: Dethfest Confession: The Devil’s Playlist; Horrors of the Deep: Starling Sea Stories; After the Burn, a post-apocalypti -
Ben Arzate
Ben Arzate writes and lives life. Sometimes he forgets to do the latter.
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Douglas Hackle
Many moons ago, I abandoned academia after receiving a degree in English Literature. Nowadays, I write fiction when I'm not toiling away as a copywriter/copyeditor in the healthcare space.
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Here are some nice things people have said about my work:
“Douglas Hackle is one of the best writers of bizarre, absurdist work out there.” – Charles Austin Muir
"The best bizarro absurdist in the business.” – Amy M. Vaughn
“He's consistently delivered some of the weirdest, wildest, most well-written fiction I've ever read.” – Arthur Graham
“The head honcho of the absurd, the governor of wackiness, the top dog of insanity…Intelligent and imbecilic, Douglas Hackle is one of the most unique voices in bizarro fiction.” – Zoltán Komor
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Jennifer Anne Gordon
Jennifer Anne Gordon is a Gothic horror novelist. Her work includes Beautiful, Frightening and Silent (2020) which won the Kindle Award for Best Horror/Suspense for 2020, and From Daylight to Madness (The Hotel book 1), and When the Sleeping Dead Still Talk (The Hotel book 2).
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She had a collection of her mixed media artwork published during spring of 2020, entitled Victoriana: mixed media art of Jennifer Gordon
Jennifer is one of the hosts as well as the creator of Vox Vomitus, a video podcast on the Global Authors on the Air Network, as well as the Co-Host of the You Tube Channel “Talk Horror to Me”. She had been a contributor to Ladies of Horror Fiction, as well as Horror Tree.
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Maria DeVivo
Maria DeVivo writes horror and dark fantasy for both a YA and adult audience. Each of her series has been Amazon best-sellers and have won multiple awards since 2012. A lover of all things dark and demented, the worlds she creates are fantastical and immersive. Get swept away in the lands of elves, zombies, angels, demons, and witches (but not all in the same place). Maria takes great pleasure in warping the comfort factor in her readers’ minds – just when you think you’ve reached a safe space in her stories, she snaps you back into her twisted reality.
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Glenn J. Hill
I started writing some years ago, when I was studying to become a certified Jewish Storyteller. At the time I began writing my own original stories to tell to live audiences, along with my own versions of traditional tales.
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I had not known my Mother was Jewish when I was younger. I only found out in the last twenty years that she was from a hidden Jewish family who at pain of death, had to flee from persecution and the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal in the 1400`s,1500`s and 1600`s.
Some of my ancestral Jewish family in Venice claimed to be descended from King David, though there is no sure proof of this. In the 1500`s and later they were court musicians and instrument builders in the Courts of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth,where the famil -
Kelly Garcia
Kelly writes funny, feel-good paranormal fiction where magic, mischief, and midlife collide. Her stories are filled with found family, swoony romance, and a healthy dose of magical chaos—because adventure doesn’t end at forty, it just gets more interesting. When she’s not dreaming up hijinks for her heroes, she’s happily buried in a good book, sharing space with her cats, dogs, and an ever-growing collection of coffee mugs.
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Heather Miller
There are multiple authors with this name in the database. Not all books on this profile may belong to the same author.
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My background in education helped me understand how powerful books are as teaching tools. A book can teach a concept in a way that is different from anything else. When given a good book, young readers are engaged and entertained while learning at the same time. In many ways I’m still teaching when I write; it’s just in a different form.
Because I am a teacher and because I have children of my own, I am always looking at the world through curious eyes. When something particularly amazing or peculiar grabs my attention I start thinking about how I could present the information in an interesting way through the platform of a b -
R.C. Hill
As a kid, R. C. Hill was raised on a steady literary diet of Goosebumps and Michigan Chillers. This cemented a lifelong love of reading, which inspired him to write books for middle graders in the hopes they too might find a love of reading.
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He is the author of The Hand Behind the Door and Other Scary Stories, a collection of short horror stories for children. One day, he will add sports books to his roster (pun intended) as well. When not writing or reading books, R. C. is a professor of sport and exercise psychology. Additionally, you can find him doing something outside (likely listening to an audiobook or maybe a podcast), playing some type of sport/running, or begging his wife to watch a horror movie. Born and raised in the Midwest Uni -
Jason Parent
In his head, Jason Parent lives in many places, but in the real world, he calls New England his home. The region offers an abundance of settings for his writing and many wonderful places in which to write them. He currently resides in Southeastern Massachusetts with his cuddly corgi named Calypso.
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In a prior life, Jason spent most of his time in front of a judge . . . as a civil litigator. When he finally tired of Latin phrases no one knew how to pronounce and explaining to people that real lawsuits are not started, tried and finalized within the 60-minute timeframe they see on TV (it's harassing the witness; no one throws vicious woodland creatures at them), he traded in his cheap suits for flip flops and designer stubble. The flops got rep -
Janice Tremayne
Janice Tremayne is an Amazon bestselling and award-winning independent supernatural horror writer. Janice is a finalist in the Readers' Favorite 2020 International Book Awards in fiction-supernatural and was awarded the distinguished favorite prize for paranormal horror at the New York City Big Book Awards. She recently was awarded the silver medal at the IPPY Awards 2021 Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Rim – Best Regional Fiction. In 2023 she was awarded the Literary Titan Gold Book Award as a mark of distinction, recognizing excellence in writing that is both innovative and impactful.
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She is an Australian author who lives with her family in Melbourne. Her publication, Haunting in Hartley, reached number one in the Amazon Kindle ranking for O -
Celine Jeanjean
Celine Jeanjean is French, grew up in the UK and now she travels the world as a nomadic writer. That makes her a tad confused about where she is from. During her travels she's watched the sun rise over Angkor Wat, lost her shoes in Vietnam, and fallen off a bamboo raft in China.
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J. Matthew Saunders
J. Matthew Saunders, a native of Greenville, South Carolina, is the author of numerous published fantasy and horror short stories. He received a B.A. in history from Vanderbilt University and a master's degree from the School of Journalism at the University of South Carolina. He received his law degree in California and practiced there as an attorney for several years.
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He is an unapologetic European history geek, enjoys the Celtic fiddle, and makes a mean sundried tomato-basil pesto. He currently lives near Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife and two children. To find out more, visit www.jmsaunders.com. -
Bill Friedrich
Thank you for visiting my Goodreads page. Begin your journey with The Landman, the first novel in the Jeff Koehler Mystery Series, where a wildlife photographer stumbles into small-town secrets and wilderness danger that could change everything—and put him in the crosshairs.
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I’m Bill Friedrich, a Michigan-born author who blends a lifelong passion for the outdoors with gripping storytelling. Raised in West Bloomfield and deeply connected to Northern Michigan traditions, I draw on decades of hunting, fishing, and wilderness exploration to bring authenticity and atmosphere to my writing.
My first three books share real stories from my family’s third-generation hunting camp in Michigan’s north woods. Today, I channel that same love of the land in -
Michael Hebler
Michael Hebler is a writer living in Southwest Florida. He was born in Los Angeles County and raised in Orange County, California. He wanted to write compelling stories with exciting characters from the age of 13, having been influenced by Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and Robert R. McCammon. Mr. Hebler enjoys writing many types of fiction but finds that most of his inspiration comes from the thriller and horror genres.
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Mr. Hebler recently took a hiatus from writing to explore other opportunities but is excited to return to writing this year (2023) to finish the last two books in his Chupacabra Series and explore some of his other story ideas. In 2024, he plans to release, RETURN OF THE CHUPACABRA: In 1990, after more than one hundred years sin -
K.C. Freeman
KC writes mostly urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels. She is partial to angels and showing that even the heavenly can be exciting.
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When she is not writing, KC is sitting in her car waiting for her daughter to finish swim practice or waiting in the stands for her daughter to swim. Occasionally, she makes it to her sons' wrestling meets too.
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R.D. Foster
R.D. Foster is an introvert with a habit of building entire supernatural worlds when left unsupervised. She writes emotional paranormal fantasy with slow-burn romance, dark secrets, and characters who love hard—even when it destroys them.
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Her debut novel, Dragons of Blackmoor, combines supernatural tension, cursed bloodlines, and found-family chaos in a haunted town that remembers everything.
When she’s not writing, she’s usually deep in a Spotify playlist trying to figure out why a song hurts so good, or rereading her favorite scenes pretending they didn’t just break her (again).
She believes every monster has a story, silence can be sacred, and love is most powerful when it’s chosen. -
R. Leonia Shea
I'm an indie with a passion for writing fantasy that takes my readers on a fun journey where they can meet interesting characters and learn a little about legends and myths. I've been writing for years now, but only jumped into the world of self-publishing when I knew I had created a world that would be light, entertaining and fun. There's enough stress and strife in this world - I want to take my readers on a journey that will always end someplace good. I write fun fiction with smart dialogue about interesting characters.
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Susan Harris Howell
I am a psychologist, speaker, and author of The Spirit of Vanderlaan, my debut novel released in December of 2024. This book is a fun, cozy, ghost story featuring a professor, Samantha Hayes, and her lively band of students who get caught up in solving a campus mystery. This book draws on my teaching career of over thirty years to capture the camaraderie and warmth between a professor and the assortment of personalities which inhabit her office.
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I have also published extensively on equality between women and men. My first book, Buried Talents, explores the subtle ways women are discouraged from entering male-dominated occupations. Buried Talents was named a winner in InterVarsity Press’s 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards. -
Judith Sterling
Judith Sterling is an award-winning author whose love of history and passion for the paranormal infuse everything she writes. Through gothic cozy mystery (The Gothic Gwyn Mysteries), medieval/time travel romance (The Novels of Ravenwood) and young adult paranormal fantasy (the Guardians of Erin series), she loves to whisk readers away from their troubles and remind them of the hidden magic all around us.
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Her nonfiction books, written under Judith Marshall, have been translated into multiple languages. She has an MA in linguistics and a BA in history, with a minor in British Studies. Born in that sauna called Florida, she craved cooler climes, and once the travel bug bit, she lived in England, Scotland, Sweden, Wisconsin, Virginia, and on the