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Craig Schaefer is an American writer of dark fantasy. His novels have taken readers across a version of America that is mired in occult mysteries, supernatural mysteries, and apocalyptic parallel worlds. A North Carolina resident, Schaefer enjoys the local museums and libraries where he is always looking for inspiration.

American Girl: Caroline is a series of historical children’s novels by American author Kathleen Ernst. The series is set in 1812, around the War of 1812. The series begins with young Caroline Abbott’s Papa being taken prisoner at the very start of the war between Britain and the United States.

Chloe Ellefson is the protagonist in a series of cozy mystery novels by American novelist Kathleen Ernst. Chloe works as a curator at Old World Wisconsin, an outdoor living history museum where the author herself worked for 12 years. Her boyfriend, Roelke McKenna is a police officer in a nearby village. Chloe ends up as […]

Kathleen Ernst is an American author of historical fiction and mystery novels. She writes the Chloe Ellefson Mysteries series and the American Girls: Caroline series. Kathleen was born in Pennsylvania, but grew up in Maryland. She was always surrounded by books, having a librarian for a mother and a father who was an avid reader. […]

Courtney Summers is a Canadian writer out of Belleville, Ontario who writes primarily young adult ficiton. Her first novel, Cracked Up To Be, was published in 2008 and was the 2009 Cybils Award Winner for YA Fiction. The book was published when Summers was only 22 years old.

Christopher Stasheff is an American fantasy and science fiction author who is considered a legend in his field. His work and knack for world building has drawn comparisons to the great J.R.R Tolkien with his Warlock of Gramarye series of books.

Christine Carbo is an American author who as a young girl moved to Montana at the age of twelve and soon fell in love with the natural beauty of the state. Moving back to Montana as an adult allowed her to take that love and funnel it into her writing which has led to some […]

Candice Fox is an Australian novelist best known for her writing on the Detective Harriet Blue series with James Patterson and her own Crimson Lake series. She won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel for her book, Hades.

Alice McDermott is an American novelist and the Professor of the Humanities at John Hopkin’s University. She has written a number of novels in her career including Charming Billy which won the US National Book Award for Fiction as well as an American Book Award.

Hi all and welcome to October! Sorry for the delay in the newsletter this month. I always aim to get it out the first of the month but we were away on the weekend and that put me behind. End of the month/beginning of the month is always a busy time for me and this […]