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Kate Hodges

Kate Hodges has written nine books that have been translated into nine languages. Her titles include biography collections Warriors, Witches, Women and I Know A Woman. She has also written guides to London, among them Little London, Rural London, Welcome to the Dark Side: Occult London and London in an Hour, and family activity book On a Starry Night.

She has over 25 years writing experience on magazines, having been a staffer on publications including The Face, Bizarre, Just Seventeen and Sky, and written for many more. She currently writes regularly for The Green Parent and Shindig! magazines. She has twins and lives in Hastings. In her spare time, she plays in bands Ye Nuns and The Hare and Hoofe.

Instagram: @theekatehodges
Twitter: @theeka

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Laura Keating

Laura Keating is a horror writer from St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

Her short fiction has been published by Grindhouse Press, Cemetery Gates, Ghost Orchid Press, and others. She authors stories about monsters both human and unnatural, traditional creep-fests, and contemporary quiet horror filled with dread.

Her debut novella, AGONY'S LODESTONE is available now. A collection of her short fiction, THE TRUEST SENSE, is out June 11, 2024.
She Lives in Nova Scotia with her husband, son, and two cats.

To learn more, please follow her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Lisa Trumbauer

Lisa Trumbauer has written early-learner books for Scholastic's Jump Start series and published numerous other activity books, picture books, and novels for middle-school readers, including the New York Times bestseller A Practical Guide to Dragons.

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Marianne Gordon

https://blog.mariannegordon.co.uk/

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A.J. Steiger

A. J. Steiger graduated from Columbia College in Chicago, where she majored in fiction writing. She has lived her whole life in the Chicago suburbs, though she enjoys regular visits to other galaxies and dimensions in her mind. She's a freelance writer and transcriptionist with an enthusiasm for anime and pancake houses.

Mindwalker is her first book for young adults.

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Maren Chase

Maren Chase is a writer and frequent museum-dweller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied history in the UK, where she led tours through monastic cloisters and across plague pits on the weekends. Since returning home, she works in the contemporary art world. Her favorite stories are about vengeful women, forbidden romance, and the inherent angst of immortality.

For more information, visit marenchasewrites.com.

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Jules Arbeaux

Born in the big city but raised reckless and barefoot deep in the woods, Jules Arbeaux is a science fiction and fantasy author and inveterate enjoyer of visceral, wrenching poetry and prose, complex characters, and powerful relationships of every flavor.

Cat parent, artist, learner of languages, and professional neglector of many thriving succulents, Jules subsists on sour gummy worms and far-fetched dreams. LORD OF THE EMPTY ISLES, forthcoming from Hodderscape in summer 2024, is the author's debut novel.

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Falencia Jean-Francois

Falencia Jean-Francois is an author and educator living in the Pittsburgh area with her wife, two cats, and dog. She has wanted to be a published author since she started writing NSYNC fan fiction in her notebook when she was twelve years old! She is looking forward to the release of her debut novel, Devil of the Deep, on August 1, 2023.

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Asha Greyling

Asha Greyling lives in Maryland with her furry four-footed muses, Gwin the terrier and a guinea pig who thinks she’s a cat. She likes nothing more than swinging in the playground (unless the local children scare her off), collecting acorns, or sitting down with a good book.

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Hannah Martian

Hannah Martian (they/she) is a writer of queer crime fiction. She is a two-time graduate of Washington State University (MA '24, BA '20) and large portions of LONG TIME GONE may or may not have been written in class while "taking notes." Hannah currently lives in eastern Washington and is hard at work plotting her next (very gay) mystery.

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Robert Jordan

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the names Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly.

Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He served two tours in Vietnam (from 1968 to 1970) with the United States Army as a helicopter gunner. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. After returning from Vietnam he attended The Citadel where he received an undergraduate degree in physics. After

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Lisa Trumbauer

Lisa Trumbauer has written early-learner books for Scholastic's Jump Start series and published numerous other activity books, picture books, and novels for middle-school readers, including the New York Times bestseller A Practical Guide to Dragons.

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Bruce R. Cordell

Bruce R. Cordell authored books for Dungeons & Dragons over the course of 4 editions (2nd Edition through 5th Edition D&D). These days, he’s a senior designer for Monte Cook Games, LLC designing Numenera , Gods of the Fall, and The Strange. Also a novel author, his credits include several titles set in the Forgotten Realms. Bruce’s tenth novel, Myth of the Maker, is just out from Angry Robot Books:
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Richard Baker

A best-selling author and award-winning game designer, Richard Baker is known for his novels in the Forgotten Realms setting and his work on the Dungeons & Dragons game. His Realms novels include Condemnation (book 3 of the War of the Spider Queen), the Last Mythal trilogy, and the Blades of the Moonsea trilogy. He is currently working on a new military-themed science fiction series centered on the character Sikander North; Valiant Dust, the first book in the new series, debuts in November 2017 from Tor Books.

A native of Ocean City, New Jersey, Rich graduated from Virginia Tech in 1988 and went on to serve as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy. When he's not writing fantasy or science fiction, he works in game publishing. H

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Richard Lee Byers

A resident of the Tampa Bay area, Richard spends much of his leisure time fencing, playing poker, shooting pool and is a frequent guest at Florida science-fiction conventions. His current projects include new novels set in the Forgotten Realms universe and the eBook post-apocalyptic superhero series The Impostor.

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R.A. Salvatore

As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore’s original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, and French.

Salvatore’s first published novel, The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, became the first

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Kiersten White

Kiersten White is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books for readers of all ages, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Sinister Summer series, the Camelot Rising trilogy, Star Wars: Padawan, Hide, Mister Magic, and Lucy Undying. She also has a very large tortoise named Kimberly, which isn't relevant, but she wanted you to know.

Visit her online at kierstenwhite.com.

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Ruth Frances Long

Ruth Frances Long writes fantasy such as The Treachery of Beautiful Things and A Crack in Everything, the first in a trilogy set in the world of demons, angels and fairies that exists alongside our own in modern day Dublin, followed by A Hollow in the Hills and A Darkness at the End.

Her new book, The Book of Gold, will be published by Hodderscape in late 2024.

As Jessica Thorne she writes fantasy for Bookouture - The Queen's Wing, The Stone's Heart (nominated for the RNA Fantasy Romantic Award 2020), Mageborn and Nightborn, The Bookbinder's Daughter, The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall and The Water Witch.

Winner of The European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award For Best Author of Children's Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015.

She

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Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw is an award-winning game writer.
Their recent novella Nothing but Blackened Teeth was a British
Fantasy, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker
Award finalist. Their debut collection Breakable Things is now
out.

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Melissa Caruso

Melissa Caruso is the author of THE TETHERED MAGE, first in the Swords and Fire trilogy, out now from Orbit books.

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Emily Tesh

EMILY TESH is a UK-based author of science fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel, Some Desperate Glory, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Tesh is also a winner of the Astounding Award, and the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning Greenhollow duology.

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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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Barbara Truelove

I write about werewolves and sometimes other things.

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Marianne Gordon

https://blog.mariannegordon.co.uk/

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Jennifer Delaney

Jennifer Delaney lives in Liverpool, England. She has a BA and MA in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moores University.
Jennifer has always had a deep love of fantasy, troublesome characters, heart stopping romance and all things gothic.
Tales of a Monstrous Heart is her debut novel. The first book in her gothic fantasy trilogy.

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A.S. Webb

A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of DAUGHTER OF CHAOS and DAUGHTER OF FATE, the first two instalments of The Dark Pantheon trilogy. She holds a BA in English Literature and Theatre Studies from the University of Leeds and is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology. She lives in London with her family.

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S. Hati

S. Hati is a speculative fiction writer, currently residing in the Bay Area. She holds a bachelor’s degree in microbiology from UCLA and a master’s degree in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University, and pretends to use them both while working in health tech. She writes about brown girls in strange worlds that straddle the line between magic and science.

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Lauren Wiesebron

Lauren Wiesebron is a fantasy author, writing adventures for characters who do not yet know they need them. She grew up in France and is now an itinerant academic studying sea creatures. When not writing, you can find her acquiring yarn and naming houseplants. She has also been known to pick up cats even when they don’t want to be picked up. The House of Frost and Feathers is her debut novel.

To learn more, and to join her newsletter for sneak peeks—including a prequel short story to The House of Frost and Feathers—visit laurenwiesebron.com

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Maren Chase

Maren Chase is a writer and frequent museum-dweller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied history in the UK, where she led tours through monastic cloisters and across plague pits on the weekends. Since returning home, she works in the contemporary art world. Her favorite stories are about vengeful women, forbidden romance, and the inherent angst of immortality.

For more information, visit marenchasewrites.com.

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A.M. Davis

A.M. Davis is an artist and an author from Ohio. She co-authored her first novel, The Shrike and the Shadows - a dark and twisted retelling of the classic tale, Hansel & Gretel. By daylight, she is the marketing manager for an upscale resort. By night, she is seeking out her next story, playing video games, or imagining what new piece to draw and anguish over dramatically.

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Desideria Mesa

Desi has eclectic taste, her favorite novels ranging anywhere from Anne of Green Gables and The Help to Mistborn and Ready Player One. Getting lost in a historical, sci-fi, or high fantasy novel will likely be her ultimate demise, besides crafting her own stories, of course. She is represented by Rachel Brooks at BookEnds Literary Agency and is currently editing her second book in the Bindle Punk duology, published by Harper Voyager. Her debut novel, Bindle Punk Bruja, was noted among the best of fall releases in 2022 by several publications, including The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Tor Books, Writer’s Digest, Library Journal, Audible, Publisher’s Weekly, and many more. Sticking to her roots in writing about Latinx culture and magic, she al

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Erin Slaughter

Erin Slaughter is the author of the memoir The Dead Dad Diaries (Autofocus Books, 2025), the short story collection A Manual for How to Love Us (Harper Perennial, 2023), and two books of poetry: The Sorrow Festival (Clash Books, 2022) and I Will Tell This Story to the Sun Until You Remember That You Are the Sun (New Rivers Press, 2019). Originally from Texas, she holds and MFA from Western Kentucky University and a PhD from Florida State University. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Coastal Carolina University.

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S. Hati

S. Hati is a speculative fiction writer, currently residing in the Bay Area. She holds a bachelor’s degree in microbiology from UCLA and a master’s degree in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University, and pretends to use them both while working in health tech. She writes about brown girls in strange worlds that straddle the line between magic and science.

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Emily Bergslien

FIVE HUNDRED YEAR OLD HAG

Emily lives in St. Paul with her wife and two birds. She is a bookseller, a Jew in progress, and literally a wizard.

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Ruth Frances Long

Ruth Frances Long writes fantasy such as The Treachery of Beautiful Things and A Crack in Everything, the first in a trilogy set in the world of demons, angels and fairies that exists alongside our own in modern day Dublin, followed by A Hollow in the Hills and A Darkness at the End.

Her new book, The Book of Gold, will be published by Hodderscape in late 2024.

As Jessica Thorne she writes fantasy for Bookouture - The Queen's Wing, The Stone's Heart (nominated for the RNA Fantasy Romantic Award 2020), Mageborn and Nightborn, The Bookbinder's Daughter, The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall and The Water Witch.

Winner of The European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award For Best Author of Children's Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015.

She

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Emma MacDonald

Emma MacDonald currently resides outside of Washington, DC, living out her dreams as a witch in the woods.

When she’s not writing, she can be found gardening, brewing potions, or chasing after her small menagerie of pets. Emma loves to write fantasy with a big splash of magic and romance.

Her debut Adult Fantasy dark academia novel, WHISPERS MOST FOUL, was published by Penguin Michael Joseph in October 2024, with its sequel WHISPERS MOST DEADLY soon to follow in Fall of 2025.

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Sasha Fenton

I’m an author, speaker and publisher. My husband, Jan Budkowski, and I run two publishing companies:
Stellium Ltd (www.stelliumpub.com) for fiction, digital and self-publishing services, and
Zambezi Publishing Ltd (www.zampub.com) for Mind, Body & Spirit titles.

I became a professional astrologer, palmist and Tarot card reader in 1974, but I tailed off my consultancy business when my writing took off. I’ve written 136 books, mainly on mind, body & spirit subjects, with total sales of around 7 million copies, and translations of some titles into twelve languages. Like an addict, I still write, most recently a trio of time travel, action romance novels – the Tudorland series (Sophie’s Inheritance, Lucy’s Dilemma and Emily’s Mistake), a gentle sp

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Icy Sedgwick

Fantasy with a Folklore Twist

Icy Sedgwick is a writer based in the north east of England. She writes Gothic-tinged not-quite-YA fantasy novels and Gothic short stories. Icy is also working on a series of experiments in historical fiction with Australian composer AJ Moon, combining spoken word stories with originally composed music. When she's not writing fiction, she's blogging about folklore and the supernatural.

Elsewhere, she's working on a PhD in Film Studies, looking at the use of set design in contemporary supernatural films. She also knits up a storm, enjoys poking around old buildings, and takes more photographs than she probably should.

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Rachael Krotec

RACHAEL KROTEC grew up in the wilds of Florida, which helped cultivate her vivid imagination and a deep appreciation for the fantastical. With dual degrees in creative writing and psychology, she brings a unique perspective to her writing, delving into the depths of human emotion. She is the author of the Anima trilogy.

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U.M. Agoawike

U.M. Agoawike is a Nigerian-Canadian author of short stories with vibes for plot and SFF books featuring everything but the kitchen sink. When not writing, U.M. can be found drawing, watching horror movies, or reading fanfiction.

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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).
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.
Jennifer is a pale curly haired ginger, obsessed with horror, gh

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Augusta Grey

Augusta Grey lives in temperate Fern Gully (the PNW) with a curmudgeonly fae partner and three chaos gremlins that happen to look like cute house cats. When she isn’t writing, she is making fairy trades with her spouse and haunting the local stationery store.

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Natania Barron

Natania Barron is a writer with a penchant for the speculative; she is also an unrepentant geek. Her work has appeared in Weird Tales, EscapePod, The Gatehouse Gazette, Thaumatrope, Bull Spec, Crossed Genres, Steampunk Tales, Faerie Magazine, and in a number of anthologies. Her work often incorporates Victorian aesthetics with magic and science fiction, treading between genres whenever possible. Her first novel, Pilgrim of the Sky, debuted in 2011.

She has since published a music fiction novel (ROCK REVIVAL), a trilogy of novellas set in early 20th century high society with monster heroines (THESE MARVELOUS BEASTS), and her Arthurian retelling QUEEN OF NONE will be re-released by Solaris Books in May of 2024, along with its two sequels, QUEE

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K.A. Connolly

K.A. Connolly lives in New England with her family and two cats who sow chaos with abandon. She regularly embarks on quests of various sizes. She has written two books.

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