Melissa K. Magner
Melissa K. Magner began writing as a child and never stopped. Inspired by her late grandmother, Patricia M. Kaspar, she writes fantasy novels infused with elements of science fiction, horror, and mystery. She has found freedom in the indie world, crafting unconventional stories about heroines who come into their own power and find love through family, friendship, and self-discovery. Her work has received critical acclaim from IndieReader, Readers’ Favorite, and the BookLife Prize by Publishers Weekly.
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Born and raised in a large port city, she has learnt to appreciate diversity and distinguish the mainly human attributes in people from different backgrounds, a powerful uniting force.
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P.S. has a thing for supernatural oddballs, morally gray weirdos, and badass women who save themselves (and occasionally punch vampires in the face). Her idea of worldbuilding is "let's break everything and see what grows back."
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Ginny Myers Sain
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Maria A. Eden
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Hazel S. Wilkes
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North was a finalist in 2018 with the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Other short fiction, critical work, and poetry has appeared Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, the YA Review Network, Umbrella Journal, District Lit, 2river View and Strange Horizons (among others), and in anthologies such as the 2015 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide, Among the Shadows and Speculative Fiction 2015. North was named a 2013 Flying Start from -
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Nikki Elizabeth
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Emily Renk Hawthorne
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Helen McKenna
Helen McKenna grew up in Queensland, Australia. An avid reader from childhood, she always dreamed of writing her own book one day.
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Helen completed a B.A. degree at the University of Queensland and has worked in many fields – banking, local government, in learning support, as a swimming instructor and as a biographer. Her love of the beach and Queenslander houses inspired her to write The Beach House, her first novel.
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J. Gibson
J. Gibson is a dabbler in dark fantasy fiction.
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In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing, and watching.
When he has no time to spare, he ends up doing these, anyway.
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Terry Birdgenaw
The author, Terry Birdgenaw, is a Metis of Oji-Cree, English, Scottish, Dutch and French-Canadian heritage, whose mother’s first cousin is a long-time lead elder of the Metis Nation of Canada. However, Terry would argue that by moving away from the Oji-Cree territory a few generations ago, his family became assimilated by European Canadian culture. Yet, Terry has long been fascinated by the story of his ancestor, Mistigoose, the indigenous Canadian woman who was the first to welcome a European into his mother’s family line.
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Lubov Leonova
I’m in love with reading. I guess all the books I've ever read impacted me in a great way – they let me expand my worldview and inspired me to pursue my dreams despite the obstacles.
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Born in Russia, I immigrated to Canada in 2014, where I faced multiple challenges, including building my own life from scratch and figuring out what career path would let me use my full potential.
My searches led me to feministic studies in college and volunteering in female support groups. My experience slowly formed into ideas for my fantasy series Two Worlds, where females shape the sphere of justice using their natural talents.
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Rosemary Mairs
Rosemary Mairs lives in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She studied Psychology at Queen’s University, Belfast. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and won prizes, including a Society of Authors’ award.
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Her second short collection is now released: Miss Win: Tales of Intrigue and Deception.
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Alyssa Reynolds
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David Maze
David Maze is a writer who explores the edges of perception, reality, and awareness, crafting works that challenge the very foundation of what it means to exist.
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His writing is both a mirror and a hammer—reflecting hidden truths while breaking apart limiting beliefs.
With a style that is both provocative and deeply introspective, Maze dismantles the illusions of control, identity, and meaning, guiding readers toward radical self-realization. He does not simply pose questions—he dares you to answer them.
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Cassia Hall
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Her work is character-driven, diverse and inclusive. Her writing has been described as ‘lush and lyrical’, her music as ‘LoTR meets GoT and Witcher, with a musical theatre vibe’.
She lives in Toronto, Canada where winters are long and the other seasons very precious.
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Karen Janowsky
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Caroline Flarity
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Tracey Canole
Tracey Canole is a Science Fiction and Urban Fantasy author. Her stories take you on an adventure, drawing you into characters and their experiences as they navigate their extraordinary lives. Tracey loves stories based in reality and those that bend our understanding of the universe. Her favorites are those that have a fantastical element, allowing the reader to go somewhere they never expected.
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When not writing, she enjoys reading and dabbling in many different art forms. You can often find her painting, crafting, and or playing with clay. But her absolute joy is found in exploring the world with her husband and two children.
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Constance Cooper
Note: there is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
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Constance is the author of the fantasy novel GUILE and various science fiction and fantasy short stories and poems.
She grew up mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area, with one year spent in Surrey, England and a chunk of another in Newfoundland, Canada. She studied journalism at UC Santa Cruz, where she hiked to class through redwood forest, explored secret caves, and helped edit the college newspaper. Later she earned an MA in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, and stayed on in Philadelphia working on a linguistic research project before getting sucked into the brand-new world of website design.
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