Alesha Dykema
Alesha Dykema is a thirty-something-year-old author of thriller novels. She lives in the dreadful Midwest with her strange husband, head-banging toddler son, a neurotic dog, and warden cat. Besides writing, Alesha loves to read (like every other author in the world). Alesha is also a health and fitness junkie and a dabbler in furniture refinishing. She is extremely anti-social and wishes she lived off-grid in the middle of the woods, but her husband hates good ideas and happiness and won’t allow this to happen. Even though she’s pretty anti-social, she still likes to make new friends and have casual chats about people’s childhood traumas.
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M.M. DeLuca
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M. M DeLuca spent her childhood in the ancient cathedral city of Durham in North-Eastern England. She attended the University of London, became a teacher, and then immigrated to Canada. There she also studied writing under her mentor, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Carol Shields. She writes in many genres, including historical, suspense and YA sci-fi. She also writes for screen and TV.. -
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Liz Alterman
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Mark West
Mark West was born in Northamptonshire in 1969. Writing stories since the age of eight, he discovered the small press in 1999 and since then, he’s published more than 90 stories in various publications around the world.
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The Book Folks published his debut mainstream thriller DON’T GO BACK in February 2022. It was followed by WATCHING OVER YOU, THE HUNTER'S QUARRY, STILL WATERS RUN, A KILLER AMONGST US and WE WERE SEEN. His latest, TO SEE TOO MUCH, was published in November 2024. He is currently working on his next thriller novel.
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Samantha Hayes
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S.L. Harker
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WILLIAM NEAL is the author of eight books, the writer-producer-director of the feature documentary "Long Gone Wild," about the ongoing plight of captive orcas; and an Executive Producer on the feature documentary "Dying To Race," about the many ills of thoroughbred horse racing - a film funded by Warner Bros.
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Neal is a former college and professional hockey coach, ESPN color analyst, and television writer-producer with credits on some 400 hours of primetime programming. He has won numerous awards for his work.
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L.G. Davis
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In addition to being an author, Liz is a self-taught digital artist who enjoys transforming a blank canvas into anything she can imagine.
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Before turning her hand to writing, Maggie worked mainly as an accountant, with a diversion into practising as a nutritional therapist. Diet and health remain high on her list of interests, along with travel. Accountancy does not, but then it never did. The urge to pack a bag and go off travelling is always lurking in the background! When not writing, going to the gym, practising yoga or travelling, Maggie can be found seeking new four-legged friends to pet; animals are a lifelong love! -
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Her debut novel, On The Edge, the first in a series featuring dynamic, daredevil protagonist Jen Shaw was a Sunday Times Crime Fiction best book. The second in the series, Cut Adrift, was The Times Thriller Book of the Month and The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month. Her latest novel, Her, a standalone psychological thriller was published in May 2023 and A Quiet Contagion, a disquieting contemporary mystery, will be published in November 2023.
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Helga Zeiner is a German-born Canadian author. She left her home town Augsburg at the age of eighteen to explore the world. For the following fourteen years, she lived and worked in Australia and Asia before she married and settled in Canada.
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All her stories have been inspired by her years of extensive travels. The reader can only guess which parts of her dramatic thrillers are based on real-life experiences or might be the product of her imagination.
She now lives on Vancouver Island, unless she is traveling the world again. Aside from writing, Helga loves reading, (anything but preferably dark and twisty), dogs, (all breeds and mixes but preferably Chow Chows), wine (preferably the bubbly kind), cooking and eating (preferably with good frie -
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He is a columnist for The Mountain Valley News, an author, artist, and a standup comedian. His work has appeared in several anthologies and magazines.
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She writes books for thriller readers who like their stories dark and twisty with complex, yet memorable characters, who often suffer from relatable mental health disorders.
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S.D. Robertson
Former journalist S.D. Robertson quit his role as a local newspaper editor to pursue a lifelong ambition of becoming a novelist.
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An English graduate from the University of Manchester, he’s also worked as a holiday rep, door-to-door salesman, train cleaner, kitchen porter and mobile phone network engineer.
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Ellie Monago
Ellie Monago is the pen name of a novelist and practicing therapist. She’s also a wife and mother, and when you add it all up, she doesn’t wind up with much time for hobbies. But she’s an avid tennis fan, a passionate reader of both fiction and nonfiction—especially memoir (nothing’s as juicy as the truth!)—and she relishes a good craft cocktail. She spent most of her life living in the U.S. and now resides in Western Canada with her family.
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Alex Sinclair
Alex Sinclair is a psychological thriller author from a quiet town near Melbourne, Australia. When he’s not spending time with his wife and two kids, Alex can be found writing fast-paced, twist-filled stories that keep readers hooked and on edge. A fan of domestic and psychological thrillers, he’s passionate about creating gripping tales that leave readers questioning what’s real until the very last page
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Alan Petersen
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Ann Heathman
Ann was born in a small town in Indiana. She was the only girl in a family of three boys which gave her a pretty good understanding of the workings of the male mind, both the good, the bad, and well... all the in-between. Understanding how men think is helpful in writing romances.
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As a former English teacher she has always had a special affinity for the written word. "I have to admit. I love to paint a picture or evoke an emotion with words."
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Miriam Verheyden
Miriam Verheyden is a Canadian non-fiction writer, novelist, x-ray technologist, and mental health advocate.
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Known for her honesty and deep vulnerability, she writes books about love, fear, mental health, aging, and being a woman in the world.
Miriam was born and raised in Germany. During a solo trip at 22 to the wild west of Canada she fell in love with her husband, dropped everything at home and moved to British Columbia to be with him. 20+ years later they are still happily married, living on a ranch in the interior of BC.
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Kate Braithwaite
Kate Braithwaite is the author of four historical novels based on true but overlooked events. “Charlatan” tells the story of Madame de Montespan and the Affair of the Poisons in 17th Century Paris. “The Plot” features Titus Oates’ Popish Plot, a scandal that earns him a place as one of Britain’s top 10 villains. “The Puzzle of Nellie Bly” explores the exploits of a ground-breaking female journalist going undercover in a 19th Century New York lunatic asylum. “The Scandalous Life of Nancy Randolph” reveals a shocking rupture between two very different sisters in late 18th century Virginia.
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Kathryn McMaster
Kathryn graduated from the University of Natal, Durban in 1980 with a double degree in English Literature and Psychology. The following year she completed her teaching diploma, and later on a TESOL diploma through Trinity College, London to teach English to adults as a second language. For the majority of her working life she worked in Education, both in the classroom, and in management. She is a co-founder of www.onestopfiction.com a website for both authors and readers for free and discounted books.
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Kathryn is a writer of true crime and true crime fact-fiction. Her earlier books written as true crime fact-fiction transport you to a different era. She crafts stories around murders in the USA or unsolved murders of the Victorian and Edwardia -
Leila Hilkmann
Leila Hilkmann was born in Israel and educated partially in London. After graduating from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in English literature and theater studies she spent several years in Europe and America.
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Excerpts of her writings were published in ‘Crone’s Nest’, a literary magazine in Rhode Island, and in ‘Arc18-The Israel Association of Writers in English (IAWE).
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S.C. Shannon
S.C. Shannon grew up in Southern California with a love of reading, travel, and now—wine. With a bachelor’s in criminal justice and a master’s in forensic psychology, Shannon uses her expertise and technical knowledge to breathe life into her thrillers. Her debut novel, What Lurks in the Shadows, won a BookFest Award in horror and was a semi-finalist for Kindle’s Best of Indie in 2022. Currently, Shannon still resides in the Los Angeles area with her boyfriend and their puppy.
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Jessica Huntley
Jessica Huntley is an award-winning and best-selling psychological thriller author. She's an ex-British soldier and Personal Trainer and has been writing almost non-stop for the past four years.
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She is now the author of sixteen books, including two trilogies, six standalone thrillers, two anthologies, a co-written horror project and a novella. She is both self-published and traditionally published with Inkubator Books and Joffe Books.
She writes books for thriller readers who like their stories dark and twisty with complex, yet memorable characters, who often suffer from relatable mental health disorders.
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Liz Alterman
Liz Alterman lives in New Jersey with her husband, three sons, and two cats.
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Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Parents, McSweeney's, and other publications.
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Ann Girdharry
Ann Girdharry writes crime thrillers and psychological suspense.
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She's a Kindle Storyteller Award Finalist 2022 and her debut novel was an ERIC HOFFER Book Award Finalist.
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I love to travel and I've lived in the USA, Norway, UK and France.
One of my passions is gardening and another is Krav Maga self-defence.
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On Facebook
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My Reader's Group
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Titles
I Know You Saw Her
The Couple Upstairs
The Woman in Room 19
Deadly Motives
Deadly Secrets
Deadly Lies
Deadly Silent
Good Girl Bad Girl
London Noir
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Mark Gillespie
These days, Mark Gillespie writes psychological thrillers, suspense and horror. Previously, between the years 2016-2020, he wrote a lot of apocalyptic/dystopian fiction.
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Mark is a former professional musician from Glasgow, Scotland, who nowadays lives in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife Íde and a small menagerie of four-legged rescue creatures.
Favourite books: I am Legend, The Razor's Edge, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Body (Stephen King), I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Trainspotting...
Favourite films: Jaws, Ikiru, The Invitation, Vertigo, The Thing, Eyes Without a Face, Seven Samurai, The Wicker Man...
You can find him on Facebook as Mark Gillespie's Writing Stuff. He's also on Twitter as MarkG_Author.
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Adriane Leigh
is a USA Today bestselling author of multiple novels and novellas. With appearances in publications such as Vogue Magazine and The Montreal Gazette, the award-winning author, in addition to writing, founded RARE: Romance Author & Reader Events, a community of internationally-renowned book conventions that draw thousands of readers and #1 bestselling authors to events around the world each year.
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She hosts a podcast, The Rebel Artist, and her books are translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
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Robin Mahle
Robin Mahle, Mystery and Suspense author, lives with her husband and two children in Virginia.
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Miranda Rijks
Miranda Rijks is the author of 26 psychological thrillers, many of which have been Amazon bestsellers. She lives in Sussex, England with her Dutch husband and black Labrador.
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Her fast-paced, twisty thrillers are inspired by scary things that have happened to her or places she has visited.
Miranda turned to writing after recovering from Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. She's so grateful that she's now a full-time author and living the dream!
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E.V. Seymour
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Robin Mahle
Robin Mahle, Mystery and Suspense author, lives with her husband and two children in Virginia.
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M.J. Hardy
Pseudonym for author S.J. Crabb.
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Brandy Sullivan
As a New England native Brandy Sullivan is no stranger to cold weather. She enjoys warming up by packing her romance novels with a lot of heat. Witty and sarcastic, she enjoys literary characters that are full of spunk with a touch of attitude.
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When she isn’t writing she enjoys binge streaming horror movies, painting with acrylics, and devouring novels.
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Hugh B. Cave
Hugh Barnett Cave was a prolific writer of pulp fiction who also excelled in other genres.
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Sources differ as to when Cave sold his first story: some say it was while he still attended Brookline High School, others cite "Island Ordeal", written at age 19 in 1929 while still working for the vanity press.
In his early career he contributed to such pulp magazines as Astounding, Black Mask, and Weird Tales. By his own estimate, in the 1930s alone, he published roughly 800 short stories in nearly 100 periodicals under a number of pseudonyms. Of particular interest during this time was his series featuring an independent gentleman of courageous action and questionable morals called simply The Eel. These adventures appeared in the late 1930s and earl -
Kathleen Irene Paterka
Kathleen Irene Paterka is a bestselling author of Women's Fiction. New for 2023 and now available: DON'T OPEN THE DOOR, a psychological domestic suspense novel. Kathleen and her husband live in the beautiful north country of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
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Leanne Treese
Leanne lives in New Jersey with her husband of twenty-five years and their three wonderful children. When Leanne is not cheering her children on in their activities, she can be found running, watching Philadelphia 76ers basketball, and spoiling her two beloved dogs. Favorite locations include the Jersey shore, Martha's Vineyard, and any place that sells books or coffee, preferably both! A passionate student, Leanne's dream life would include going back to college and majoring in everything.
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Leanne is a graduate of Lafayette College and The Dickinson School of Law. A former attorney, Leanne is now lucky enough to write full-time! -
D.K. Wall
Many years ago, D.K. Wall regaled a group of co-workers with a colorful story. One lady wiped tears of laughter from her eyes. "I wish I had been there."
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"But you were."
"Yes, but you remember it better than I do."
That's the art of story telling. Begin with a nugget of truth. Highlight the interesting. Surround with imagery. Weave fact and fiction to create an engaging tale. Remember it better.
D.K. has lived his entire life in the Carolinas—the highest elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains, the industrial towns of Gastonia and Hickory, the financial center of Charlotte, and the coastal salt marsh of Murrells Inlet. He’s watched the textile and furniture industries wither and the banking and service industries explode, changing the face of t -
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Katherine Bolger Hyde
Katherine Bolger Hyde is the author of the Crime with the Classics series as well as several books for children. A lifelong lover of literature (and alliteration), Katherine has a degree in Russian literature and works as editorial director for Ancient Faith Publishing. She lives in the redwoods of Santa Cruz County, California, with her husband and the youngest of her four children. Katherine loves to sing and knit, and she dreams of one day designing and building her own storybook cottage in the woods.
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McGarvey Black
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THE SECOND HONEYMOON - August 2025
He's planned the perfect cruise - and the perfect murder. His new girlfriend (my replacement) is waiting in the wings.
Our luxury cruise ship departs from Florida. Its destination - paradise. A surprise gift from Andre. Our first proper vacation in five years. A second honeymoon.
He's bought me the perfect outfit. The champagne is flowing. Everything's going to plan. Andre's plan.
He thinks he'll get away with it. But he doesn't know what I'm capable of. Not yet.
Also,
—THE BABY I STOLE
—MY SISTER'S KILLER
—THE FIRST HUSBAND
—WITHOUT HER CONSENT
—THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS
—TRUST ONLY ME
—TWICE ON CHRISTMAS
—THE GIRL WHO KILLED HER MOM
Romantic Comedy;
— LOVE ON THE LINE (original title— THE FUSSY VIRGIN).
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Mark Gillespie
These days, Mark Gillespie writes psychological thrillers, suspense and horror. Previously, between the years 2016-2020, he wrote a lot of apocalyptic/dystopian fiction.
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Mark is a former professional musician from Glasgow, Scotland, who nowadays lives in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife Íde and a small menagerie of four-legged rescue creatures.
Favourite books: I am Legend, The Razor's Edge, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Body (Stephen King), I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Trainspotting...
Favourite films: Jaws, Ikiru, The Invitation, Vertigo, The Thing, Eyes Without a Face, Seven Samurai, The Wicker Man...
You can find him on Facebook as Mark Gillespie's Writing Stuff. He's also on Twitter as MarkG_Author.
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D.A. Lee
D.A. Lee is a Bangladeshi-born British author, artist and poet, best known for her novel 'Written' published in 2019. Raised in a small town in Lancashire, England, Lee describes the cultural challenges of growing up in a Bengali household whilst navigating a western world.
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Lee's novel, whilst fictional, draws on many of her own experiences of growing up in a Muslim family and explores the underworld of cultural expectations, arranged marriages, honour, abuse and domestic violence that often limit women's choices.
Lee first started writing as a form of self-healing through the challenges of home life. The word 'Written' had become a poignant theme throughout the book, a word often expressed culturally to describe the notion of determinism an -
Jenny Tomlin
QUEEN of the misery memoir Jenny Tomlin, mother of actress Martine McCutcheon, is not as tragic as you might imagine.
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Upbeat and truly happy in her life now, it's difficult to believe that she was sexually abused by her father, unprotected by her slovenly mother and then married a violent man who battered her senseless even when she was pregnant with Martine.
Her disturbing story was told in her memoirs Behind Closed Doors and Silent Sisters, which became bestsellers, enabling her to buy a 12-acre French farmhouse in the Dordogne with her second husband, Alan Tomlin, a bodyguard she married in Barbados nine years ago.
Then, of course, there's her famous daughter.
You can hear Martine laughing in the background as her mother describes their -
Anne Penketh
Lancashire lass who spent years abroad as a journalist and now based in London and Paris. ABBA fan and tap dancer
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Catherine O'Connell
Chicago native Catherine O'Connell is the author of five novels: First Tracks, The Last Night Out, Well Read and Dead, Well Bred and Dead, and Skins.
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A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Journalism, she has worked in a number of roles in various fields, including hotel maid, bar manager, floor runner at the Chicago Board of Trade, sommelier, and sales executive in the fine wine business. Her varied experiences give her insight into many walks of life that she incorporates into her writing.
A member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, she sits on the board of the Aspen Words, the literary branch of the Aspen Institute. She has also served as a moderator of the Great Books and Sharing Shakespeare programs at the As -
Wendy Clarke
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Wendy Clarke has had over three hundred short stories published in national women’s magazines. With a degree in psychology, and intrigued with how the human mind can affect behaviour, it was inevitable she would eventually want to explore her darker side. What She Saw is her debut psychological thriller, published by Bookouture. Wendy lives with her husband, cat and step-dog in Sussex and when not writing is usually dancing, singing or watching any programme that involves food! -
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Rosie Walker
Rosie Walker is a novelist who lives in Edinburgh with her husband, daughter, and dog. She has published four novels: 'Secrets of a Serial Killer', 'The House Fire', 'The Baby Monitor' and 'My Husband's Ex'.
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Her next book, 'The Bride's Secret', is coming in 2025.
Rosie has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Lancaster University. -
Susanna Rogers
Susanna Rogers is the author of rock star romances for adults and kick butt books for young adults. Inspired by her very own in-house rock star and years of going to gigs, she penned the Mosh Series after writing and releasing several young adult novels. She’s also a kickboxer and dreams of empowering girls and guys around the globe to believe in themselves, to take care and follow their own dreams. She has a soft spot for romantic suspense, also with kick butt heroines, so you never know what might be coming up next.
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Livia Harper
When she’s not hanging out with her ginger husband and two stinky basset hounds, Livia Harper writes modern thrillers and mysteries in the vein of Megan Abbott’s Dare Me or Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Slain is her debut novel. Sign up for updates and free goodies at www.LiviaHarper.com.
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Elizabeth McKenna
Elizabeth McKenna's love of books reaches back to her childhood, where her tastes ranged from Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys to Stephen King's horror stories.
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Her novels reflect her mercurial temperament and include romances, mysteries, and suspense. With some being “clean” and some being “naughty,” she has a book for your every mood.
Elizabeth lives in Wisconsin with her understanding husband and Sidney, the rescue dog from Tennessee. When she isn’t writing, reading, editing, or walking the dog that never tires, she’s sleeping. -
Rebekah Dodson
Rebekah Dodson is a prolific word weaver of romance, fantasy, and science fiction novels. Her works include the series Postcards from Paris, The Surrogate, The Curse of Lanval series, several stand alone novels, and her upcoming YA novel, Clock City. She has been writing her whole life, with her first published work of historical fiction with 4H Clubs of America at the age of 12, and poetry at the age of 16 with the National Poetry Society. With an extensive academic background including education, history, psychology and English, she currently works as a college professor by day and a writer by night.
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Cristelle Comby
Cristelle Comby was born and raised in the French-speaking area of Switzerland, in Greater Geneva, where she still resides.
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She attributes to her origins her ever-peaceful nature and her undying love for chocolate. She has a passion for art, which also includes an interest in drawing and acting.
She is the author of the Neve & Egan Cases series, which features an unlikely duo of private detectives in London: Ashford Egan, a blind History professor, and Alexandra Neve, one of his students.
Currently, she is hard at work on her Urban Fantasy series Vale Investigation which chronicles the exploits of Death’s only envoy on Earth, PI Bellamy Vale, in the fictitious town of Cold City, USA. -
Jean Nicole Rivers
Jean Nicole (@jeannicole19) is a National Black Book Festival award-winner and author of two psychological horror novels, Black Water Tales: The Unwanted and Black Water Tales: The Secret Keepers. She has also garnered awards for her screenplay, If I Die, from multiple film festivals including the Shivers International Film Festival (Canada).
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Currently, she is working through the 3rd installment of her Black Water Tales series on a novel currently titled, To the Moon and Back.
In 2016, she launched the only novel writing software founded and owned by a black woman, Simple Stylus (www.SimplyStylus.com) and she teaches an online beginner writing course titled, Simply Writing: An Aspiring Author’s Guide to Developing A Solid Writing Process an -
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Morag Edwards
After trying many different forms of writing, in 2005 I decided that I wanted to focus on the novel and took a leave of absence from my work as an educational psychologist to complete an M.A at Manchester University’s Centre for New Writing. I have over thirty years' experience of the impact of early childhood experience upon adult relationships and use this knowledge to develop my characters' personalities, even in historical fiction. Once I know the child, I have the adult!
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'The Jacobite’s Wife' is the first book in the Jacobite Saga and is a fictionalised account of the life of Winifred Herbert, later Countess of Nithsdale. As a Scottish child, I learned about her role in her husband's dramatic escape from the Tower of London but in resea -
Rachael Tamayo
Rachael Tamayo is the bestselling author of the award-winning Deadly Sins Series, and award-winning thriller, Crazy Love, among several other titles. Before she started her writing career, she was a highly awarded 911 emergency services dispatcher with twelve years of experience and many commendations under her belt. Upon exiting law enforcement, she’s focused her writing career on the dark, suspenseful, and psychological after beginning as a romance author. Now Rachael uses her dark thriller as a sort of self-therapy after all those years answering 911 calls and works all that she knows and was exposed to into the frighteningly realistic and layered characters her readers know and love her for. Rachael lives on the Texas Gulf Coast in Hous
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L.M. Barrett
Welcome, and thanks for stopping by!
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I’m a writer living in the beautiful city of Bath, along with my husband, two kids, and our mischievous dog, Bobby. My writing journey began while living in sunny Spain, and I’ve been hooked ever since.
I love to explore a variety of genres, from lighthearted romantic comedies that’ll make you laugh and swoon, to deeper, more mysterious tales that might just give you chills. Whether you're looking for a heartwarming escape or something with a twist, you’ll find it all in my collection—available on Kindle Unlimited.
I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out at [email protected] with any thoughts, comments, or questions. -
William Holms
William Holms, a three-time national award winner author, was born on October 12, 1965 and grew up in Hitchcock, Texas – a small town south of Houston. A graduate of The University of Texas, where he received his undergrad in business, and Baylor University, where he attended law school, William Holms is a veteran trial and divorce attorney with over thirty years of experience in both the legal field and the study of the human condition—which always comes into play in the practice of law.
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Inspired and sometimes unsettled by his observations surrounding cases, Holms channeled his background into his first award-winning suspense/thriller novel, The Killing of Faith. After the book received numerous awards and praise from all critics, William -
J.W. Judge
I am a lawyer by day and a writer in the early morning hours before the sun breaks the horizon. My fiction is fueled by bizarre dreams and an overactive imagination.
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In my sixth novel, A Good Way to Wind Up Dead (coming 6/10/25), two very different worlds converge when a true-crime podcaster goes to rural Alabama to investigate the disappearance of a young woman and unknowingly befriends a hitman who has just killed her father and is at the outset of navigating taking control of the family business and fending off the people who want her dead.
My fifth novel, Watch Party, is a contemporary murder-mystery/suspense novel that is a mash-up between Cast Away and Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
I have written four fantasy novels: The Za -
Karen Moore
Karen Moore is a British writer based in Cheshire. She lived in Italy for ten years and worked as a tour guide in Europe, the USA and Canada, followed by a career in PR and marketing.
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Torn is her debut novel, a thriller set in Sicily and North Wales. -
Rebecca L. Marsh
Rebecca L. Marsh is an award-winning author of women's fiction. She grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and now lives in Dallas, Georgia, with her husband and daughter.
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When not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family (cats and dog included), watching movies, and reading a good book. Rebecca occasionally makes home-made candy and works on her scrapbooks (she is woefully behind).
She is the author of When the Storm Ends, The Rift Between Us, Where Hope is Found, Remember the Butterfly, and Summer's Runaway.