Philip Reari
Philip Reari is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and editor working by day to reduce industrial pollution and enforce environmental laws and by morning and evening to compose fiction and raise children. Previously a climate reporter, his work has been published by Dissent, Grist, Huffington Post, Mother Jones, n+1, Wired, and many others. His first book, “Eat Your Damn Vegetables,” was shortlisted for the Santa Fe Literary Awards. His second book, “Earth Jumped Back,” will be published by Black Rose Writing on July 18, 2024.
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Clifford Garstang is the author of three novels: THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE (forthcoming, 2024), OLIVER’S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY. He is also the author of three story collections: WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW (winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction), IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, and HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES. He is the co-founder and former editor of PRIME NUMBER MAGAZINE and the editor of the three-volume anthology series, EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET. A former international lawyer with a prominent US law firm and the World Bank, Garstang earned a BA from Northwestern University, an MA (English) and a JD from Indiana University, an MPA (International Development) from Ha
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Nicholas James Wagner
Nicholas James Wagner is a writer and independent filmmaker from Virginia. His notable works include the short story collections Bedlam Trances and Razor Country, as well as the novellas Tout, A Ruin of Mercies and Her Soft Hours. He wrote and directed the films Shelter for the Bloodstained Soul and The Holy Sound. His stories have also appeared on The No Sleep Podcast and in publications such as Frontier Tales Magazine.
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Tavi Taylor Black
Tavi lives on Vashon Island outside of Seattle with her husband, daughter and full household of pets. Her early years were spent on the east coast where she considered herself more of a painter and a dancer than a writer. But as she took up traveling with bands for a living, writing became the most portable of arts. Books have always been her refuge. Her next projects are a historical fiction set in 1913 in Bar Harbor, Maine, and a Middle Grade Fantasy novel she wrote with her daughter.
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Kay Smith-Blum
Kay Smith-Blum is a former business owner and Seattle School Board President. A lover of the natural world and an avid gardener, Smith-Blum founded Environmental Endeavors, the first greenhouse program in Seattle Public Schools. A fan of mid-20th-century history, Smith-Blum has penned two other manuscripts set in Texas, but the recent upheaval over leaking waste tanks at the Hanford site drew her in. A meticulous researcher, Smith-Blum felt compelled to write the Hanford story in a way that would educate and entertain readers, redefining historical fiction. The result is her debut novel, TANGLES, coming December 3, 2024. Smith-Blum’s published short works may be found in multiple literary journals. A companion short story to TANGLES is incl
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Lena Gibson
Award-winning author Lena Gibson is a storyteller as an elementary school teacher and keeper of the family lore. As someone with autism, she often creates characters that reflect this experience.
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A voracious reader from childhood onward, Lena seeks wonderful books in which to escape. She loves interesting characters and fast-paced, emotional narratives, leading her to write genre-defying stories in multiple categories. While her books are disaster romance, time slip, dystopian adventure, and sports romance, all are about love, resilience, and hope.
When Lena isn't writing, she reads, practices karate, and drinks a ton of tea. She resides in New Westminster, Canada, with her family and their fuzzy overlord, Ash, the fluffiest of gray cats.
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Mia Dalia
Mia Dalia is an internationally published, Crime Writers Association-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short stories of horror, noir, science fiction, mystery, crime, humor, and more have been featured in a variety of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, online, and adapted for narrative podcasts.
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Featured publications:
Estate Sale (Lethe Press)
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Haven (CamCat Books)
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Alakazam (PS Publishing)
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Lloyd Jeffries
Lloyd Jeffries enjoys dark comedies, philosophy, clever turns of phrase, religious studies and thought experiments involving the esoteric and legendary. A decorated veteran of numerous conflicts, he served in the U.S. military and has practiced Emergency, Trauma and Wilderness medicine for more than twenty years. He hides out in Florida with his family and Buck the Wonder Dog.
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Robert Rivenbark
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It’s perhaps a cliché to say one person can make a huge difference in your life—except in the case of someone like Mrs. Lee, my sixth-grade homeroom and English teacher at Sagamore Hills Grammar School in Atlanta. She changed mine, profoundly, by making me the class playwright and short story writer. In my clumsy but passionate initial attempts at writing, I discovered my calling. Now that I’ve published my speculative fiction novel The Cloud (details at www.thecloudnovel.com) I hope I can find my beloved teacher. I’d like to hug and thank her with tears of gratitude in my eyes.
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A.R. Alexander
I’m an Italian-born writer now living in the south of England with my husband, our three kids, and a dog who thinks he’s the boss (and, honestly, he might be right).
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Once upon a time, I worked as a psychologist. These days, I write Young Adult fiction in both English and Italian, mixing mythology, adventure, fantasy, and a sprinkle of sci-fi, basically all the stuff I wish had been in my school textbooks.
I’ve lived with dyslexia and ADHD my whole life, which means my brain has always been running on “hard mode.” For years, I felt like I wasn’t good enough or had to work twice as hard just to keep up. Turns out, those challenges gave me exactly the toolkit I needed: resilience, creativity, and a knack for thinking outside the box. Now, all th -
Tavi Taylor Black
Tavi lives on Vashon Island outside of Seattle with her husband, daughter and full household of pets. Her early years were spent on the east coast where she considered herself more of a painter and a dancer than a writer. But as she took up traveling with bands for a living, writing became the most portable of arts. Books have always been her refuge. Her next projects are a historical fiction set in 1913 in Bar Harbor, Maine, and a Middle Grade Fantasy novel she wrote with her daughter.
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Once Upon a Dance
Terrel is a dance educator and storyteller who believes in the transformative power of movement. Through her passion project, Once Upon a Dance, she’s published 42 interactive children’s books that weave whimsical stories with joyful movement.
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With her daughter—a former Pacific Northwest Ballet Professional Division student—as the featured ballerina, Terrel brings movement into storytime, encouraging creativity, confidence, and self-expression in young readers.
Each book invites kids to stretch, twirl, leap, and imagine alongside positive characters—from dancing cats to ballerina zombies. Whether reading with a caregiver or moving along in the classroom, children are gently guided to explore feelings, movement, and connection through play.
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Jordan H. Bartlett
Jordan H. Bartlett is an award-winning, New Zealand-born Canadian author with a love for children’s literature and female empowerment. She grew up reading books about boys for boys and found it hard to find a strong heroine she could relate to. Bartlett wrote the Frean Chronicles to give young readers that character she so longed for in a world where gender norms are reversed. Bartlett currently resides in Banff, Alberta where she works as a speech language pathologist and is a certified yoga instructor.
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Frances-Marie Coke
Frances-Marie Coke was born in Jamaica. An educator with experience at secondary and tertiary institutions in Jamaica, her qualifications include the Master of Arts in Educational Psychology (University of the West Indies, Mona) and the Master of Arts (English) Northwestern State University of Louisiana.
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She has been writing since her early twenties and has written poetry, fiction, and drama for stage and radio.
Frances-Marie relocated to Florida in 2008 but maintains strong links with Jamaica and continues to write about her home. She has continued her involvement in education, working as a Writing Studio Coordinator and adjunct faculty member at tertiary institutions in Port St. Lucie.
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Paul Lubaczewski
Author of numerous horror comedy novels, along with the novella "A New Life" on St. Rooster Books, In addition he has two collections of short stories, "What Is A Paddywack?" and "3 Hits From the Holler" as well as over 80 short stories that have appeared in publications like Weirdbook, Hellfire Crossroads, Schlock, Devoltuion Z, Disturbed Digest, and numerous other publications and anthologies.
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It took Paul 5 major cities to realize, he didn't like living in major cities, not even his own birthplace of Philadelphia, so now he lives with his wife and son in a fairytale little town in Appalachia instead. His adult daughters both live in PA, which is havoc on vehicles.
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Nicholas James Wagner
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Gail Ward Olmsted
Gail Ward Olmsted was a marketing executive and a college professor before she began writing fiction on a fulltime basis. A trip to Sedona, AZ inspired her first novel Jeep Tour. Three more novels followed before she began Landscape of a Marriage, a biographical work of fiction featuring landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, a distant cousin of her husband’s, and his wife Mary.
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Her latest is a pair of contemporary novels featuring a disgraced attorney seeking a career comeback: Miranda Writes (9/8/22) and Miranda Nights (7/6/23)
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#1 Bestselling Amazon author, Belle Ami, knows that “Dreams do come true.” Belle Ami is an author of time travel romantic thrillers, international thrillers, and historical fiction. Her latest #1 historical fiction novel is The Last Daughter, based on the true story of her mother’s survival of the Holocaust. Whether she writes thrillers set in the art world with a supernatural twist or her new Lost in Time series of time-travel historical romances for Dragonblade Publishing, Belle’s books are all meticulously researched with compelling stories that will usher you through breathtaking twists and turns and introduce you to captivating heroes and heroines. Belle’s books have won many awards, including the RONE, the Raven, Readers’ Favorite Aw
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Kurt D. Springs
Kurt D. Springs is presently an adjunct professor teaching anthropology, archaeology, and geography in New Hampshire. He holds a PhD. in anthropology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as a Master of Literature in archaeology from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a Master of Liberal Arts in anthropology and archaeology from the Harvard University Extension School. His main area of interest is megalithic landscapes in prehistoric Ireland.
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Paulette Mahurin
Paulette Mahurin is a best selling literary fiction and historical fiction novelist. She lives with her husband Terry and two dogs, Max and Bella, in Ventura County, California. She grew up in West Los Angeles and attended UCLA, where she received a Master’s Degree in Science.
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Her first novel, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap, made it to Amazon bestseller lists and won awards, including best historical fiction 2012 in Turning the Pages Magazine. Her second novel, His Name Was Ben, originally written as an award winning short story while she was in college and later expanded into a novel, rose to bestseller lists its second week out. Her third novel, To Live Out Loud, won international critical acclaim and made it to multiple sites as favor -
Kevin G. Chapman
In 2025, I will be publishing my 10th novel, Treacherous Hack, book #7 in my Mike Stoneman series.
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My 2023 stand-alone novel, The Other Murder, won the GRAND PRIZE CLUE award as the best suspense/thriller of 2023 (Chanticleer International Book Awards)! The Other Murder is about a high-profile murder and the media frenzy it creates, and the other murder that nobody cares about. When two journalists team up to investigate the two murders, nothing is as it seems, and the most dangerous thing . . . is the truth.
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Grady Hendrix
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He's also the jerk behind the Stoker award-winning Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the 70's and 80's horror paperback boom, which contains more information about Nazi leprechauns, killer babies, and evil cats than you probably need.
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Lucille Guarino
A bestselling and award-winning author for fiction-drama, Lucille Guarino has enjoyed writing since her youth. Her novel, Elizabeth’s Mountain, has received praise and recognition from Kirkus Reviews, BookViral, The Book Commentary, BookFest and others, and was a 2024 Finalist for the Hawthorne Prize from the American Writing Awards and Kindle Book Award. Also, the recipient of the 2024 Millennium Book Award and the 2025 Independent Press Award. Her novels have garnered reviews such as “compelling,” “captivating,” “enchanting,” and “effortlessly transporting.” Her newest, evocative novel, Lunch Tales: Suellen, embraces powerful issues that snag the lives of contemporary women by addressing Suellen's world of work, love, and a life-changing
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Russ Colchamiro
RUSS COLCHAMIRO is the author of Crackle and Fire, Fractured Lives, Hot Ash, Blunt Force Rising, and Trigger Point, the first five books in the sci-fi thriller series featuring his hardboiled intergalactic private detective Angela Hardwicke. He is also the author of the rollicking space adventure, Crossline, the zany sci-fi backpacking series Finders Keepers, Genius de Milo, and Astropalooza, editor of the sci-fi mystery anthology, Love, Murder & Mayhem, and contributing author for his newest project, Murder in Montague Falls, a noir novella collection, all with Crazy 8 Press.
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A.J. McCarthy
As an author of mystery suspense novels, A.J. McCarthy is always on the lookout for new ideas. Her friends and family are cautious, concerned they may become a victim in her next novel. Those who are more adventurous offer up ideas and are willing to sacrifice certain family members for the cause. A.J. bides her time, waiting for the right moment and the perfect victim. She hides behind a quiet façade, and few know what she’s really thinking.
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A.J. grew up reading Agatha Christie, Sidney Sheldon, and many other masters of mystery and suspense. A lifelong love of the genre evolved. She’s a member of Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers. When she isn’t writing, chances are she is reading. -
Chris Coppel
Chris Coppel was born in California. His family moved to Europe, living in Spain, France, Switzerland and mainly England. He has written numerous screenplays but Far From Burden Dell is his first novel. He taught advanced screenwriting at U.C.L.A.
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Matt Haig
Matt Haig is the author of novels such as The Midnight Library, How to Stop Time, The Humans, The Radleys, and the forthcoming The Life Impossible. He has also written books for children, such as A Boy Called Christmas, and the memoir Reasons to Stay Alive.
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Frances-Marie Coke
Frances-Marie Coke was born in Jamaica. An educator with experience at secondary and tertiary institutions in Jamaica, her qualifications include the Master of Arts in Educational Psychology (University of the West Indies, Mona) and the Master of Arts (English) Northwestern State University of Louisiana.
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She has been writing since her early twenties and has written poetry, fiction, and drama for stage and radio.
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Shaune Lafferty Webb
Shaune’s father was an amateur astronomer and her eldest brother an avid science fiction reader, so perhaps it was inevitable that she developed an early enthusiasm for writing speculative fiction.
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After obtaining a degree in geology from the University of Queensland, Shaune subsequently worked in geochemical laboratories, exploration companies, and, while living in the United States, at a multinational scientific institute involved in exploration beneath the ocean floors. A decade after returning to Australia, armed with a life-long addiction to SciFi and a broad scope of real-world research and editing experience, Shaune returned to her original passion, the writing of speculative fiction. Her short stories have appeared in AntipodeanSF, T -
Colin W. Sargent
On the 2023 U.S. release of Red Hands
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Hunt them down!
Heedless, headstrong, and headlong love. Who knew it would doom her country, too? Intelligent, stylish Iordana wasn’t interested in communist strategies while she enjoyed spectacular privilege–unimaginable to the 20 million souls living under the iron fist of a dictatorship ruled by a murderous family she chose to marry into.
But as a member of the elite Nomenclatura during Romania's cool 1960s, she had to have her Valentin. Just as she rose in the Ceausescu clan over her parents’ objections, so she fell when the murderous dictator and his criminal partner were taken down.
“Death to the Dracu grandson” rang through the subways. An angry world chased her and her son in an effort to wipe the -
A.R. Alexander
I’m an Italian-born writer now living in the south of England with my husband, our three kids, and a dog who thinks he’s the boss (and, honestly, he might be right).
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Once upon a time, I worked as a psychologist. These days, I write Young Adult fiction in both English and Italian, mixing mythology, adventure, fantasy, and a sprinkle of sci-fi, basically all the stuff I wish had been in my school textbooks.
I’ve lived with dyslexia and ADHD my whole life, which means my brain has always been running on “hard mode.” For years, I felt like I wasn’t good enough or had to work twice as hard just to keep up. Turns out, those challenges gave me exactly the toolkit I needed: resilience, creativity, and a knack for thinking outside the box. Now, all th -
Lanysha T. Adams
Dr. LaNysha T. Adams is a mother of two young boys and a survivor of sudden cardiac arrest, a life-changing experience that strengthened her mission to help others activate their ME POWER. After nearly a decade in Washington, DC, she’s now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she activates ME POWER in early-career professionals, helping them step into leadership and navigate career uncertainty. Through her award-winning bestseller, ME POWER, Dr. Adams offers actionable strategies to help individuals shape their futures.
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