Naomi Valkyrie
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Naomi Valkyrie, often called a Firebrand Provocateur, brings her unique Autistic perspectives and curiosities to life by weaving tales of deep connection, mystery, and romance. She is inspired by being able to spontaneously create a thought that takes on a life of its own, opening up new adventures for her readers.
The Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy realms are particular areas of interest for Naomi as they allow for the vast exploration of magic, adventure, and the impossible while creating diverse characters that her readers connect with on an emotional level.
When she isn’t attending to familial connections, Naomi loves a dark, comfy reading spa
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An avid reader from an early age, KD was fascinated by the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, she read the entire Doyle Canon by the time she was 13.
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Kellie Wallace
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Hamilton Spectator Readers' Choice Award in the Best Local Author category 2017 & 2018 & 2019
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When she doesn't have her nose in a good story, Brooke enjoys spending as much time as she can outside. Walking around town, fishing, hunting, hiking, and messing around the mountains, Brooke loves the great outdoors which shows up quite a bit in her works.
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Kim Ann
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T.S. Simons
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Isobel was born and raised in London. While she’s a city girl at heart, she loves daydreaming about running away to a charming small town—though she’s not entirely sure her husband and son would share her enthusiasm for the move. When she’s not writing small-town romantic comedies or growing unhealthily attached to the characters in her books, you can find her reading, chasing after her very active toddler, or attempting to channel her inner domestic goddess in the kitchen (with varying degrees of success).
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Nicole Craig
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Adam Cosco
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Julie Castle
Julie Castle is a natural-born romantic with a modicum of artistic talent inherited from her mom and a love for telling tall tales she got from her dad. That set her up for being a starving artist, the biggest fibber in the world, or a romance author. She’s so glad she chose the latter. She's always had a love affair with the written word. As a child growing up in a small town, she loved visiting the local library, a converted gilded age mansion, and getting lost between the pages of a book. The drafty old mansion could be a spooky place, but she still loved it. She enjoyed poking into behind the scenes areas she wasn't supposed to venture into. She's still the same way, which is why she loves writing romance with an edge, paranormal, suspe
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C.A. King
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Michael J. Stiehl
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John (ronin) Evans
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L. J. Evias writes exclusively in the fantasy genre, infusing stories with a dash of adventure and mystery. In Evias’s worlds, moral absolutes do not exist, giving life to a diverse cast of intriguing characters.
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A native of Cuba, she speaks English and Spanish fluently, loves to dance salsa and drink single malt whisky. After thirty years of traveling the world for an international company, she’s settled in Central Florida, where she splits her busy schedule between family and her active muse at Essence Publishing. However, if she could -
Carol McKibben
Carol McKibben was a magazine publisher for more than 20 years. She began a new career in freelance writing and editing in 2007. As well as editing other authors’ works to realize their dreams, she has completed Luke’s Tale and published a memoir, Riding Through It.
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Carol currently writes from the heart of a dog's eyes. Often telling her stories to Laberdoodles, Basset Hounds and any stray that happens by, it wasn't long before people stopped to have a listen as well. Now Carol writes for people and speaks to large audiences, dogs included.
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Bree M. Lewandowski
Having lived all her life in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, author Bree M. Lewandowski incorporates all aspects of her life in her writing. A ballet dancer at a young age, continuing to teach ballet through her career as an author, she often turns to the tumultuous world of dance to find threads of a story. In love with classical literature, her writing not only pays homage to the style of writers like Dumas and Hugo, she also believes in creating main characters who are larger than life. Yet, struggles with body image, mental and emotional health, and the strained relationships so many have also play in and out of Lewandowski's writing. In the end, all these attributes combined, she loves to tell a love story.
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T.S. Simons
T.S. Simons is an award winning Australian-based author of Scottish heritage. Living in the alpine region of Australia, she believes in the values of integrity, sustainability, and community in a world where we place greater value on possessions than people. She enjoys posing philosophical questions that make readers think and reflect on the world we live in.
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The Antipodes series addresses the question—if we gave young people the opportunity to start over, would they replicate the mistakes of the past?
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Barbara Barnett
Barbara Barnett is Publisher/Executive Editor of Blogcritics, (blogcritics.org) an Internet magazine of pop culture, politics and more, for which she has also contributed nearly 1,000 essays, reviews, and interviews over the past decade. Her book on the TV series House, M.D., Chasing Zebras is a quintessential guide to the themes, characters and episodes of the hit show.
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She is an accomplished speaker, an annual favorite at MENSA's HalloWEEM convention, where she has spoken to standing room crowds on subjects as diverse as "The Byronic Hero in Pop Culture," "The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes," "The Hidden History of Science Fiction," and "Our Passion for Disaster (Movies)." -
Nicolette Terry
Nicolette has always been passionate about writing and has been creating stories since she was a little girl. Becoming a published author was something unobtainable then, but now she is living proof that dreams can come true.
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Lena Abram
Lena Abram writes plotty romantasy stories where the world is complicated, magic is taken seriously and emotions fight beastly duels with reason. She often sends her characters on a journey, but they are characterful and don’t always agree to take the designated path. So, though she enjoys reading about travel adventures and love burning slowly, it may happen that the plot of her own book will get stuck in one place and produce sparks sooner rather than later (but it is not guaranteed that the place will not move on its own or that the sparks will not ignite hatred). Lena has also a weakness for fairies, so if you decide to enter the portal leading to the worlds created by her whimsical imagination, be prepared to meet at least their mixed-
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Cambria Williams
Cambria Williams believes that storytelling is limitless, timeless, and transformative. Cambria writes fantasy fiction and contemporary young adult fiction that emphasize the magic of hope and the strength of love. She is the award-winning author of The Befallen, Book 1 of The Unsung and the Wolf Duology, which won the 2024 Bronze Quill Award and the 2024 Fantasy Finalist Award for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Cambria loves traveling, reading, and taking walks with her husband and dog. She has an MFA in Writing and lives in Utah. Visit Cambria online at cambriawilliams.com.
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E. Anders lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, son, two cats and sixty-three fantastic frogs.
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Although born in Tennessee, Marlena has spent most of her life in Georgia. She lives with her sister and two spoiled adopted cats. She is an active member of the Atlanta Chapter of the Horror Writers Association and an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. She i -
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A creative mind trapped in a world of reality Jackie Sheats expresses herself in anyway that she can. From illustrating and writing to dancing like a mental patient while preparing dinner. Living in Maryland with her logic driven husband, their six cats, the dog, and a tank full of fish, Jackie spends her free time doing the backlog of housework and studying for her Masters in Illustration. A movie junkie, video game addict, and secret ninja in training she lives life under the idea that "if you don't know how to do something, go learn it!"
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Lynne Russell
Lynne Russell is the author of the P.J. Santini romantic crime series, including HELL ON HEELS, HEELS OF FORTUNE and LOVE HEELS!. Like Lynne, P.J. Santini is a television journalist and a private detective. Her novel STREGA - MAGIC: THE SPIRIT NEVER DIES (published on Halloween 2021) is a completely different story of Old Italy, modern love, reincarnation and magic.
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Lynne Russell broke ground as the first woman to solo anchor a network nightly newscast. She anchored CNN/CNN Headline News for 18 years, more than 33,000 international newscasts. She developed a following who admire her objective, authoritative delivery and non-conformist on-air personality and demeanor.
Her long-standing dedication to the people's right to know was recognized i -
Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Award-winning author, editor, and publisher Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with husband Mike McPhail and friend Greg Schauer to form her own publishing house, eSpec Books (www.especbooks.com).
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Her published works include eight novels, Yesterday's Dreams, Tomorrow's Memories, Today’s Promise, The Halfling’s Court, The Redcaps’ Queen, Daire’s Devils, The Play of Light, and Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo collections Eternal Wanderings, A Legacy of Stars, Consigned to the Sea, Flash in the Can, Transcendence, Between Darkness and Light, The Fox’s Fire, The Kindly One, and the -
Elise Carlson
Elise is a restless adventurer and passionate educator, with an endless list of 'what if?' questions to explore in epic fantasy and SciFi-Fantasy. They write neurodiverse, queer-led adventures for those who may age, but will never get old.
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You'll find more about them on their website: https://elisecarlson.com.
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Linda Burson
After years of writing and editing for others, raising a family, and over twenty years of running her own businesses, Linda decided to tackle her first fiction novel entitled RAGE. After realizing it contained too many words, Linda turned the novel into a trilogy, which eventually stretched into a much longer series called THE MARCY SERIES.
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When asked about inspiration, Linda has this to say: "Nobody inspired me to write, but I do remember my mother and father always saying 'anything you put your mind to you can accomplish. Don't ever let anyone tell you, you can't do something.' Having the support of my husband and children is very important. Having my youngest daughter, who is a writer and editor as well, to offer advice, has helped me st -
R.C. Reigh
R.C. Reigh is an American author of fiction and fantasy novels and short stories for both Middle Grade and Young Adult readers. As a young girl growing up in rural Illinois she fell in love with reading about adventures in faraway places. She began writing as a hobby and in the days before home computers were the norm she would jot down ideas in notebooks or on her mom's typewriter.
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Ayla Marie
Ayla Marie is a first-year Canadian university student whose love for fantasy started when she was twelve and hasn’t dulled since. She has a profound admiration for all genres of literature and loves to dissect the complex meanings hidden beneath simple phrases. World building and heart-wrenching character plots have always been her favorite to read, and she works tirelessly to perfect them in her writing to give her readers the whirlwind stories she has always loved. Though reading, writing and studying take up most of her time, Ayla is always up for an adventure with friends and family, discovering little pieces of the world day by day. She loves to play sports, sit in nature, and take in the wonders of everyday life so that she can write
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Donna S. Frelick
Donna S. Frelick has been a journalist, a Peace Corps Volunteer and an author of STAR TREK fan fiction. She was an RWA® Golden Heart® Double Finalist in 2012 for the first two novels in her contemporary SFR Interstellar Rescue series, and an SFR Galaxy Award winner in 2016 and 2018 for the third and fourth books in the series.
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Find her at https://donnasfrelick.com ; blogging at https://donnasfrelick.com ; on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DonnaSFrelic... and on Mastodon.online @DonnaSFrelick.
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