Sasha Peyton Smith
Sasha Peyton Smith is the New York Times best selling author of The Witch Haven and The Witch Hunt. She’s passionate about well-curated road trip playlists, soup recipes, and stories about complicated girls. Originally from Utah, she now lives in Washington D.C. with her partner and collection of porcelain hands.
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Mary E. Pearson
Mary E. Pearson is the International and NYT bestselling and award-winning author of multiple novels including her adult debut novel, The Courting of Bristol Keats, about a woman from a small town who is unexpectedly plunged into a world of gods, fae, and monsters.
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Her other books include The Remnant Chronicles—The Kiss of Deception, The Heart of Betrayal, and The Beauty of Darkness—and its spin-off duology Dance of Thieves and Vow of Thieves. Mary's awards and honors include the Golden Kite for fiction, ALA Best Books, NYPL Best Books, IRA Choice Books, YALSA Teens Top Ten, Arkansas and South Carolina Young Adult Book Awards, and her science-fiction novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, was an Andre Norton Award Finalist. Her books have been t -
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Stephanie Garber is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart series. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Alchemy of Secrets is her debut novel for adults and will be published around the world.
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Lynette Noni
Australian author Lynette Noni studied journalism, academic writing, and human behaviour at university before venturing into the world of fiction. She is the #1 bestselling and award-winning author of THE PRISON HEALER series, THE MEDORAN CHRONICLES, and the WHISPER duology. To date, her books have sold more than one million copies in over 20 countries across the globe.
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Allison Saft
Allison Saft is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic and Down Comes the Night. After receiving her MA in English Literature from Tulane University, she moved from the Gulf Coast to the West Coast, where she spends her time rolling on eight wheels and practicing aerial silks. She lives with her partner and an Italian greyhound named Marzipan.
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Shelby Mahurin
Shelby Mahurin grew up on a small farm in rural Indiana, where sticks became wands and cows became dragons. Her rampant imagination didn't fade with age, so she continues to play make-believe every day—with words now instead of cows. When not writing, Shelby watches the Office and obsesses over her Twitter feed. She still lives near that childhood farm with her very tall husband, semi-feral toddlers, two dogs, and one cat.
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Nellie Snyder Yost
Nellie Irene Snyder was born on June 20, 1905 to Albert Benton Snyder and Grace Bell McCance Snyder in a sod house in northwest Lincoln County Nebraska. At the age of two weeks she was carried on horseback to a ranch in McPherson County Nebraska. She suffered a childhood illness that permanently damaged her spine and slowed her growth resulting in her diminutive height of 4 feet,8 inches. She lived with her family in McPherson County until 1919 when the family moved to Maxwell, Nebraska where she graduated as class valedictorian in 1923. She taught one year in a rural McPherson County school, riding horseback to her school six miles a day. After that she moved to Salem, Oregon for two years, where she worked in the office of Miller Departme
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Brittney Arena
With a background in both brand and visual design, Brittney has always found solace in art. However, after a challenging health journey, she turned to writing, and what began as a coping mechanism evolved into a journey of exploration, allowing her to traverse new worlds from wherever she might be.
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When she’s not penning tales, Brittney spends her time obsessing over k-dramas, playing with her camera, and waging war against ungodly amounts of pet hair. She currently resides in North Carolina with her husband and two pups, and is always ready for the next adventure, whether it be on page or in real life. A Dance of Lies is her debut novel.
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Lauryn Hamilton Murray
Lauryn Hamilton Murray grew up in Scotland writing stories about sad girls, secrets and storms. She holds a BA Hons in English Literature from the University of Stirling and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. She is happiest when reading in the sun and hiking with her dogs, Huxley and Ziggy.
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Sophie Clark
Sophie Clark likes to say she writes fantasy featuring wounded girls with sharp edges and charming boys who fall for them anyway, sinister mysteries, twisted gods, and other unholy things.
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She holds a masters degree in international relations from the University of Melbourne, and worked for the Australian Senate before leaving politics for good. When not writing, she is almost invariably reading; when not reading, she’s lavishing affection on her border collie, Indy.
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Sabaa Tahir
**My apologies if I don't respond to emails or friend requests right away! Come find me on Twitter or Instagram @sabaatahir, or on my web site: www.sabaatahir.com
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Sabaa Tahir grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s 18-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, raiding her brother’s comic book stash and playing guitar badly. She began writing An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. She likes thunderous indie rock, garish socks and all things nerd. Sabaa currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. -
Christy R. Harrill
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Christy R. Harrill is the book loving and anything medieval fantasy obsessing author of the Blood Vier series. She lives in Oklahoma where she enjoys hiking with her dog Hank and devouring every book she possibly has time for. Christy loves winter, and still hopes to attain the dream of getting snowed in with four feet of snow one day. She thinks that the only good thing about summer is wearing sandals, and has a weakness for buying pretty notebooks—even though she already owns far too many blank ones at home. -
Gina Chen
Gina Chen is the New York Times bestselling author of Violet Made of Thorns. A self-taught artist with a degree in computer science, she loves being creative in multiple mediums. Her stories lean toward the fantastic, featuring heroines, antiheroines, and the kind of cleverness that brings trouble in its wake. Currently, she resides in Southern California, where the sunshine is as plentiful as its tea shops.
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Alyssa Villaire
Alyssa Villaire is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Glittering Edge and the upcoming sequel, The Neon Sky. She writes fantasy books with eerie magic, complicated friendships, and lots of yearning. She’s based in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and a steadily growing library.
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Michel Benoît
Michel Benoît (a nom de plume) is a religious scolar and novelist. After obtaining a PhD in Pharmacology, he entered the Benedictine order as an unordained monk at the abbey of Saint Benoît sur Loire (from which he took his pen name), remaining a monk for twenty-two years. Because of his ideological non-conformity, he eventually left the Catholic Church and decided to devote himself to research and writing. His first book, Prisoner of God, an autobiographical account of his lfe in the monastery, became an international bestseller when it was published in 1992. This was followed by two religious essays, a travel book based on a trip to India, and then the thriller The Thirteenth Apostle, which although fiction, is claimed to be derived from
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Rachel Moore
Rachel Moore is the author of high-stakes, genre-blending novels. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and two cats she’s violently allergic to. (The cats, not the husband.) On the rare occasion she isn’t writing happy endings, you can find her collecting dictionaries, drinking entirely too much coffee, and drifting through the library stacks.
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Tessonja Odette
Tessonja Odette is a Seattle-based author of fantasy romance, epic romantasy, and fairytale retellings. She especially loves to write about brooding fae and the fierce women who hate-to-love them. When she isn’t writing, she’s watching cat videos, petting dogs, having dance parties in the kitchen with her daughter, or pursuing her many creative hobbies. In her books, you'll find enemies-to-lovers, witty banter, cozy vibes, and a delicious dash of steam.
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Hafsa.A. Jawad
Hafsa has pink hair, a white bunny named Meeko and no clue what she’s doing most of the time. She’s been a bookish artist since 2018 and The Tales of Arcana Fortune is her debut novel. She loves tea, romance books, musicals, anime and food so spicy it brings tears to your eyes.
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Isabel Ibañez
Isabel Ibañez is a USA Today, Indie, Sunday Times, and #1 New York Times bestseller and the author of the Secrets of the Nile duology, Together We Burn, Written in Starlight, and Woven in Moonlight, which is listed among Time Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time and was a finalist for the William C. Morris award. She is the proud daughter of Bolivian immigrants and has a profound appreciation for history, traveling, and writing stories where her characters are often running for their lives. She currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with her family, their adorable golden doodle, and an overwhelming amount of of books.
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Kelly Powell
Kelly Powell writes fantasy for young adults and currently lives in Ontario, Canada. She has a bachelor's degree in history and book & media studies from the University of Toronto.
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Matthew Restall
Matthew Restall is a historian of Colonial Latin America. He is an ethnohistorian and a scholar of conquest, colonization, and the African diaspora in the Americas. He is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University. He is President of the American Society for Ethnohistory, a former editor of Ethnohistory journal, a senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review, editor of the book series Latin American Originals, and co-editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series.
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Katherine Webber
Katherine Webber was born in Southern California in 1987. She has lived in Hong Kong, Hawaii, and Atlanta. She currently lives in London with her husband, Kevin, and their young daughter. In addition to her YA, Katherine also co-writes young fiction, as Katie Tsang, with Kevin.
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Katherine studied Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis and Chinese literature and language at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has worked at an international translation company, a technology startup, and a reading charity. She now writes full time.
She loves an adventure, whether it is found in a book or in real life and has travelled to over 45 countries. Travel, books, and eating out are her favourite indulgences. -
Ava Reid
Ava Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of gothic fantasies, including A Study in Drowning, Juniper & Thorn, and Lady Macbeth. She lives in California.
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M.K. Lobb
M. K. Lobb is a fantasy writer with a love of all things dark— be it literature, humour, or general aesthetic. She grew up in small-town Canada and now lives by the lake with her partner and their cats. When not reading or writing, she can be found at the gym or contemplating the harsh realities of existence.
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Amélie Wen Zhao
Amélie Wen Zhao（赵雯）was born in Paris and grew up in Beijing, where she spent her days reenacting tales of legendary heroes, ancient kingdoms, and lost magic at her grandmother’s courtyard house. She attended college in the United States and now resides in New York City, working as a finance professional by day and fantasy author by night. In her spare time, she loves to travel with her family in China, where she’s determined to walk the rivers and lakes of old just like the practitioners in her novels do.
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Megan Scott
Megan Scott is the Sunday Times Bestselling romance and fantasy author from the North West of England.
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Her debut for upper YA, THE TEMPTATION OF MAGIC, is a contemporary fantasy romance published in 2024 with HarperCollins in the UK and US, beginning the EMPYREAL trilogy.
She studied Art History and Classical Civilisation at university and masters level, looking at depictions of myth in nineteenth century art which still inspire her novels.
When she’s not writing or on Pinterest, she’s trying to read as much as her nana, falling more in love with romance books, or paint something she doesn’t want to ceremoniously burn in the garden.
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Rebecca Ross
Rebecca Ross is the #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of fantasy books for teens and adults.
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She has written multiple highly acclaimed duologies, including LETTERS OF ENCHANTMENT, ELEMENTS OF CADENCE, and THE QUEEN’S RISING as well as two standalone novels: DREAMS LIE BENEATH and SISTERS OF SWORD & SONG.
When not writing, she can be found in her garden where she plants wildflowers and story ideas. She resides in Northeast Georgia with her husband and her dog. Find her on Instagram @beccajross or online at www.rebeccarossauthor.com.
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Paulina Maggi
Paulina Maggi nació en Argentina y desde pequeña supo que las palabras serían su refugio y su camino. Inspirada por los libros de Sidney Sheldon, comenzó a escribir historias a una edad temprana, imaginando mundos donde las emociones fueran tan palpables como reales. A los 19 años escribió su primera novela, Sueño de Gloria, marcando el inicio de un viaje literario.
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Autora de romance juvenil y adulto, sus obras siempre giran en torno a historias de amor que no temen explorar géneros como el thriller, el drama o el paranormal. Paulina tiene un estilo narrativo visual que transforma cada página en una escena de película, haciendo que sus lectores vivan cada momento con intensidad. Además, le apasiona abordar temas actuales y dejar mensajes pos -
Cassandra James
Cassandra James grew up in a mixed immigrant family with a penchant for storytelling, so becoming a writer was almost inevitable. She recently graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English focusing on Creative Writing. After solo-traveling the world for several months, she finally landed in Orlando, Florida, where she spends her time cooking Colombian food, obsessing over Broadway musicals, and occasionally swashbuckling.
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Her debut novel, CAPITANA, will be released by HarperCollins/Quill Tree and Bonnier/Hot Key Books in 2025, followed by a sequel in 2026.
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Elly Blake
NYT bestselling author of the Frostblood Saga. Elly Blake loves fairy tales, old houses, and owls. After earning a BA in English literature, she held a series of seemingly random jobs, including project manager, customs clerk, graphic designer, reporter for a local business magazine, and library assistant. She lives in Southwestern Ontario with her husband, kids and a Siberian Husky mix who definitely shows Frostblood tendencies.
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Sarah Marie Page
I'm Sarah, an award-winning author who writes fluffy fantasy. I live in Phoenix, Arizona with my equally fluffy cat (starting to see a pattern here?) And fine, I have a husband too.
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He's not fluffy.
My debut novel, ILLUSION OF STARS, comes out July 2024. I'm currently working on the (untitled) ILLUSION OF STARS sequel and SERPENT GREEN, VENOM BLUE. I also have a witchy manuscript that lives in a trunk under the bed.
We don't talk about that.
My work has been featured in Y Magazine, The Advocate, The Crow’s Quill, and Hippocampus Magazine (among others) and I've been a guest on a ton of podcasts like The Outspoken Artist, Bookish Flights, Books are Magical and the Author's Alcove.
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Olivie Blake
Olivie Blake is the pseudonym of Alexene Farol Follmuth, a lover and writer of stories, many of which involve the fantastic, the paranormal, or the supernatural, but not always. More often, her works revolve around what it means to be human (or not), and the endlessly interesting complexities of life and love.
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Olivie has penned several indie SFF projects, including the webtoon Clara and the Devil with illustrator Little Chmura and the viral Atlas series. As Follmuth, her young adult rom-com My Mechanical Romance releases May 2022.
Olivie lives in Los Angeles with her husband and new baby, where she is generally tolerated by her rescue pit bull. -
Brigid Kemmerer
Brigid Kemmerer is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of dark and alluring romantic fantasy novels like Warrior Princess Assassin, Defy the Night, and A Curse So Dark and Lonely. A full time writer, Brigid lives in the Baltimore area with her family. When she’s not writing or being a mom, you can usually find her playing board games with her loving husband, or hanging out in the gym, with her hands wrapped around a barbell.
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Suleena Bibra
Suleena Bibra studied art history in college and loves to travel every opportunity she gets. A bit indecisive, she has worked as a museum intern, lawyer, workers’ compensation adjuster, and private investigator. Author is best, though, so she can continue living out a bunch of other careers without changing out of her pajamas. Suleena writes RomComs heavy on banter, shenanigans, and aggressive whimsy. She spends the rest of her time annoying her bulldog with her love.
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Dimitri Balcaen
Dimitri Balcaen is de oprichter en eigenaar van Readmore Publishing. Hij creëerde dit platform om een uitlaatklep te hebben voor zijn creaties zonder de regels van grote uitgeverijen te moeten volgen en hoopt zo kleinere spelers een kans te geven die ze bij hen niet krijgen.
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Brianna Joy Crump
Brianna Joy Crump grew up on library cards and games of make-believe. She loves cats, houseplants, candles that smell nice, cream and sugar with her coffee, the pretty notebooks she is too afraid to use, the beach, her kindle, and you. Brianna is the author of the Culled Crown series. She currently lives in Holly Ridge, North Carolina, with her cat, Jinx—who spends his days sitting on her desk while she writes. To learn more about Brianna’s writing journey, follow her on Instagram at @briannajoyc and TikTok @briannajoycrump.
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Emmy van Ruijven
Illustrator, bookblogger & candlemaker.
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Shalini Abeysekara
Shalini Abeysekara (she/her/hers) is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of This Monster of Mine. As a former corporate lawyer, she enjoys using fantasy to interrogate reality, exploring monstrosity—perceived and real—and centering neurodivergent women of colour reckoning with themselves and their place in a world that tells them they’re too much and not enough. She is passionate about demystifying traditional publishing for all writers. When not writing, she games her life away and tries to make the perfect entremet. Most days though, she can’t believe she's an adult, and hope you don’t either.
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Emily J. Taylor
Emily was born and raised in California and has since refused to stay put. She's lived in four states and two continents, all of which have conveniently given her an endless amount of story fodder. She currently works as a creative director in Minneapolis, where she spends the long winters dreaming up glittering worlds to spin into dark tales.
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Helen Glynn Jones
Helen Glynn Jones has lived in both Australia and Canada, but a few years ago she returned to her native England where, when she’s not writing stories, she likes to hunt for vintage treasures, explore stone circles and watch the sky change colour.
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She writes about vampires and dragons and kissing and magic, as well as spicy contemporary romance under the name Isadora Love. She also has short stories in several anthologies. She now lives in Hertfordshire with her husband, daughter, and wonderfully chaotic cockapoo. -
Patrice Caldwell
PATRICE CALDWELL is a former children’s book editor turned literary agent and author, born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. She a graduate of Wellesley College and has been named a Forbes’s “30 Under 30” as well as a Publishers Weekly Star Watch honoree. Her debut YA novel, WHERE SHADOWS MEET--the first in a sapphic vampire romantasy--is out April 1, 2025 in the US & UK.
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Patrice is also the editor of two anthologies A Phoenix First Must Burn, 16 stories of Black girl magic, resistance, and hope, and Eternally Yours, 15 stories of paranormal love. After years of living in New York City, she moved back to Texas with her adorable cats and so many books. -
Theresa Charles
Irene Maude Mossop Swatridge (sometimes in collaboration with Charles John Swatridge)
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Irene Mossop, Jan Tempest, Fay Chandos, Theresa Charles, Leslie Lance and Virginia Storm
Irene Maude Mossop was born on 6 December 1904 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK, she was the elder child of Maude Binford Eyre and Robert Mossop, a solicitor, later she had one bothers. She was educated privately.
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Lucy Castle
Lucy Castle grew up devouring every single book from her local library before diving into the happy world of queer romances. Now she's writing her own blend of small-town love stories filled with hilarious banter, smirking men, and a dash of suspense.
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Daren Hatfield
Daren Hatfield has been working in the copywriting, illustration, and graphic design fields for over 25 years. He has designed and illustrated book covers, been a contributor for published trade magazine articles, created advertising for print and digital media, and developed numerous industry-specific training and educational resources. His background includes degrees in Advertising Art, Marketing, and Biblical Studies. He lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife and daughter.
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Thomas Hauser
Thomas Hauser (b. 1946) is the author of forty-two books on subjects ranging from professional boxing to Beethoven. His first work, Missing, was made into an Academy Award–winning film. Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times earned numerous awards for its author, including the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism.
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Rut S. Díaz
Rut S. Díaz is a spanish art historian and storyteller with a passion for weaving love (a lot of it), art, and adventure into every tale.
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Drawing inspiration from the rich textures of history and the sweeping beauty of the sea, her stories brim with heartfelt and creative expression.
When she's not writing, you'll likely find her exploring the mysteries of art, dreaming up new characters, or enjoying the ocean's endless horizon.
Dive into her works and discover stories that celebrate the beauty of human connection and the timeless allure of art. -
K.T. Sterling
K.T. Sterling heeft altijd graag verhaaltjes geschreven, maar ze had nooit de gedachte om schrijver te worden. Tot ze op haar negentiende gedwongen zelf naar de pen greep omdat ze vreemde dromen kreeg en er personages in haar hoofd rondwaarden die smeekten om gekend te worden. Zo is haar steampunk/victorian high fantasy boekenreeks ‘Testra’ ontstaan en daarbij ook de droom om schrijfster te worden. Ze is blijven schrijven, zelfs na haar opleiding criminologie, door de vele administratieve jobs heen die haar niets anders brachten dan depressies en burn-outs. Op die manier had ze een eerste manuscript klaar. Ze had ook een manuscript klaar voor een vervolg en ideeën voor een derde boek in de reeks.
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Dustin Grinnell
Dustin Grinnell is a writer based in Boston. Journalism and creative nonfiction, short stories and novels, poetry and scripts—all these and more have earned him publication with a wide range of presses, magazines, and literary journals.
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His true passion, however, lies in exploring the intersection of ethics and science in a subgenre of speculative fiction he’s dubbed “sci-fi with heart.” Most of his fiction writing—including his most recent novel, The Empathy Academy, and his short story collection, The Healing Book—falls into this subgenre, blending the imaginative worlds of science fiction with deep, emotional storytelling that emphasizes the human impact of science and technology. Inspired by modern media, he also reviews sci-fi movies th -
Katherine Forrister
Katherine Forrister is an author and narrative designer. Her works include Lodestone, The Hand-Me-Down Maiden, and Curio Citizen. Under the pen name K. E. Torwood, she published Lazare: Gaston Leroux's Continued Investigation Concerning the Phantom of the Opera.
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Katherine lives near Kansas City with her family, where she enjoys local festivals and conventions, hiking, playing open-world video games, and curling up on the sofa to read on cold winter days. -
Laura Carter
Laura grew up in rural Scotland before moving to London to study for her degree in English Literature, where she lived for ten years before moving back to the countryside with her Romanian rescue dog, Rez. She grew up constantly immersed in different worlds through reading and always dreamed of becoming an author. When her love of fantasy and romance was re-ignited after three years of only ever critically analysing work, her dream of creating her own worlds returned. She now balances working full time for a cancer charity with writing her debut series, The Lost Kingdom Saga.
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McKenzie Catron-Pichan
McKenzie is a wheelchair-bound, autistic, twenty-one-time award-winning YA fantasy author of the "Numina Parable" series, co-author of "A Traveler's Guide to The Lucky Gryphon: Recipes & Regalings," and children's book writer specializing in Own Voices stories featuring disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence, and service dog representation.
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She's a new Michigan resident who lives with her husband and her service dog, Grimm.
McKenzie is also a full-time creative makeup artist and alternative model fighting against disability stigmas one creation at a time. When she's not spending her anxious days writing novels or taking photos in her studio, you can find her over on Instagram sharing her art as @mckenziecatron. -
Shannon Saunders
Shannon Saunders writes spicy, bingeable romantic comedies with characters that are navigating the complexities that life often serves us. Her books reflect what we all experience—laughter, heartbreak, and triumph. All topped with a heavy dollop of banter.
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Shannon has been a romance reader since she was a little ten-year-old. Problematic? Maybe. The Tyler series circa early 90s really made an impact. Now she writes the same stories that shaped her.
If you are a fan of Lucy Score, Claire Kingsley, or Sloane St. James, you’ll love her compact stories that are perfect for a vacation read, a palette cleanser, or to drag you out of a reading rut.
She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons. When she's not wrangling small children, she' -
Alan A. Cavaiola
Alan A. Cavaiola, PhD, LPC, LCADC is a full Professor and a member of the Graduate Faculty at Monmouth University (West Long Branch, NJ) where he serves as Director of the Addiction Studies program. Dr. Cavaiola also served as an Associate Editor of the journal Substance Abuse from 2013 to 2018. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Coalition of Substance Abuse Educators (INCASE) from 2014 to the present. Dr. Cavaiola has co-authored several books including: Assessment and Treatment of DWI Offenders, Crisis Intervention: A Practical Guide and Crisis Intervention Case Book. In addition, Dr. Cavaiola has authored several scholarly research publications and has presented his research as several national and interna
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Susanne Dunlap
Susanne Dunlap is the author of more than a dozen historical novels for adults and teens. Susanne grew up in Buffalo, New York and has lived in London, Brooklyn, Northampton, MA, and now Biddeford, ME. Her love of historical fiction arose partly from her PhD research at Yale.
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Susanne is also an Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach in fiction and nonfiction, specializing in coaching historical fiction and historical nonfiction. -
Rebekah Bryer
Author. Mum. Coffee-fuelled chaos wrangler. Believer in flawed heroes and impossible dreams.
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Rebekah Bryer is an Australian author who writes dark, emotionally charged fantasy woven with divine power struggles, haunted legacies, and the kind of characters who refuse to break quietly.
A proud mum and lifelong daydreamer, Rebekah started writing with one goal in mind: to show her daughter that dreams are worth chasing.
With the unwavering support of her partner, she turned late nights, early mornings, and nap trapped sessions into the pages of her debut novel.
When she is not lost in books, she’s at home on the east coast of Australia, chasing down her small human, and pandering to a cat who never quite figured out how to “cat” properly. -
Lexie Janson
Lexie Janson is a fantasy author born in Poland, where she spent her days getting lost in the forests and stories of old. She is currently living in Ireland, where the landscapes and folklore took her heart. Lexie is crafting intricate worlds and complex characters, often exploring themes of political intrigue and morally grey choices. Her stories are rooted in a childhood immersed in folklore and history. This upbringing fostered a love for ancient traditions and a fascination with the hidden depths of human nature, both of which find their way into her writing. When not lost in the realms of Logarain and Thurait, Lexie can be found delving into history, dabbling in witchcraft, or twirling across the dance floor at a fantasy ball.
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Dina S.
Please note: There is more than one Goodreads author with this name. Dina S., author, is not to be confused with Dina S., editor at Pitchstone Publishing. This author has no affiliation with Pitchstone or any of their titles.
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Award-winning author, Dina S. brings worlds to life through her writing as seen in Author Shout winning novel Nothing Special, anthology Heroes, and several volumes of eZine Straight on till Morning. Dina’s life is spent enduring the hot, humid sunsets of Florida, known to the natives as the Armpit Climate, but to the lovely tourists as The Eternal Vacation Climate. You can watch her on the Don’t Make It Weird Podcast, where her life adventures, and stories continue. Find her on X @DinasaurusD or Threads @Dinasaurusdmiw -
Jennifer Jaxxon-Louis
Jennifer Jaxxon-Louis is an academic advisor and former math professor who writes young adult sci-fi thrillers to encourage teens toward STEM areas. She loves animals, is passionate about architecture, woodworking, and anything related, and has always been obsessed with gymnastics, dance, and cheerleading. When not writing, she is usually building or painting something, dancing (Broadway jazz and hip-hop), playing pool, poker, or tennis, and always listening to heavy metal music.
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Alana Vieira
Alana Vieira is author of the REALM OF THE SEVEN series: a world steeped in old magic and blood, where myths blend with truth and things are rarely as they seem. The fantasy genre stole Alana's heart early in life and it has never let her go since.
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Ratings and reviews are an indie author’s life blood. If you enjoyed any of my works, please leave a rating/review to let me know!
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Anna Mattaar
Anna Mattaar has written stories ever since she knows how words work. She went to art school, where she studied something complicated about games and theatre. This helped her look at storytelling from several interesting new angles, but somehow she keeps returning to the written word. She lives in a small town in the Netherlands and is currently writing for a computer game and working on several fantasy stories.
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Natascha van Limpt
Natascha van Limpt heeft archeologie gestudeerd aan de Universiteit van Leiden. Daarna volgde ze een opleiding tot redacteur en sinds 2017 werkt ze als freelance redacteur en corrector.
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In de afgelopen negen jaar heeft ze zeventien boeken en novelles uitgebracht in diverse genres. Onder haar eigen naam schrijft ze romantasy, fantasy en historische romans, onder het pseudoniem N.D. Frost schrijft ze motorclub romances. Tot slot schrijft ze samen met Leah Nicolai ook jeugdboeken onder het pseudoniem Leana Mystica.
Haar verhalen zijn een mix van drama, avontuur, spanning en romantiek en kenmerken zich door personages met een heftige achtergrond, donkere thema’s en in haar meest recente werken queerpersonages. -
Jayden Thompson
Jayden Thompson first discovered her love of writing at fifteen years old. Her first novel, Diamond in the Rough, was published when she was eighteen. A Kentucky native, Jayden spends her time reading, hanging out with family, watching too many YouTube videos, and daydreaming about fictional worlds.
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For sneak peeks of upcoming books and more content, you can check out her YouTube channel (@jaydenthompsonauthor), her Instagram (@jaydenthompson_author), and her website (jaydenthompson.com). -
Erin Fae
Hello! Thank you for stopping by my page. You may know me as ErinTheBookFaery on TikTok.
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Courtney Grace Powers
COURTNEY GRACE POWERS has been telling stories since she was six years old, sometimes with music, sometimes with costumes, sometimes with photos and art…but always with her first love, the written word. She believes ferociously that Storytellers of every medium are the sculptors of history, with powers that should be leveraged for good. A Dungeon Master, Rebel Legion member, and new mom, she lives with the Kanan to her Hera and in the middle of Ohio cornfields.
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