Order of Libba Bray Books
Libba Bray is an American author who is the author of The Diviners series as well as the Gemma Doyle trilogy. She got her start writing romance novels under a pseudonym before debuting with her first novel under her own name, A Great and Terribly Beauty in 2006. She would write Going Bovine in 2009 that won her the Michael L. Printz Award for literary excellence in young adult literature. (more…)
Order of Heather Fawcett Books
Heather Fawcett is a Canadian author of YA fantasy novels. She writes the Even the Darkest Stars series. Prior to becoming a novelist, Heather worked as an archaeologist, a technical writer, and a backstage assistant for a Shakespearean theatre company. She has her Master’s degree in English Literature. Heather lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. (more…)
Order of Cynthia Kadohata Books
Cynthia Kadohata is an American author of YA and children’s novels. Cynthia is of Japanese descent, and writes coming-of-age stories involving Asian American women. She spent some of her time growing up in the South, and has set some of her novels there. Cynthia earned her B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California. She also attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her boyfriend, son, and dogs. (more…)
Order of Kate Parker Books
Kate Parker is an American author of cozy and historical mystery novels. She writes the Victorian Bookshop Mysteries series. Kate has had a variety of careers, including as a microbiologist, insurance fraud investigator, office clerk, telephone line repair person, and EMT. Her favourite career of all is her latest – a writer. She now writes historical mysteries with romantic elements, and has taken inspiration from some of her favourite mystery novels, such as Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Margaret Frazer, Susanna Gregory, and Deanna Raybourn. Kate lives in North Carolina. (more…)
Order of Cuyler Overholt Books
Cuyler Overholt is an American author of historical mystery novels. She writes the Dr. Genevieve Summerford series. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law, Cuyler honed her writing skills on legal briefs for several years as a litigation associate before starting a freelance writing business. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, who she has two sons with. (more…)
Order of Anna Harrington Books
Anna Harrington is an author of historical romance novels. She sets her novels in the Regency era, which she fell in love with while living in England. She looks at all of the rules of etiquette and propriety of the era as working in the favour of the heroine – if she’s able to seize her dreams. Anna loves to travel, where she visits schools and volunteers with children’s organizations in Peru, Ecuador, Thailand and Mexico. She has her pilot’s license, and dreams of flying a hot air balloon over Africa. (more…)
Order of Oliver Harris Books
Oliver Harris is an English author of crime thriller and spy thriller novels. He has a first-class degree in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare Studies from UCL, and an MA in creative writing from UEA. Aside from writing, he has also worked in clothing warehouses, PR companies, been a TV/film extra, assisted with research for the Imperial War Museum archives, and reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. (more…)
April 2020 Mid-Month Newsletter
Welcome to the second “mid-month” newsletter!
I published a special mid-month newsletter in March, with a lot of reader suggestions on book series to get stuck into during isolation/quarantine.
It ended up being a big success, with many of you saying you’d love to hear from me twice a month as opposed to just once per month. That’s great to hear and so I thought I’d give it a whirl. (more…)
Order of Jess Kidd Books
Jess Kidd is an author of literary fiction, historical mystery, fantasy, and children’s fiction novels. Jess was raised by an Irish family in London, England. She won the Costa Short Story Award, and her novels have been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2019, and have been named BBC Radio 2 Book Club Picks. Jess is also currently developing her own television projects with producers in the United Kingdom and internationally. (more…)
Order of Gabe Hudson Books
Gabe Hudson is an American novelist of fantasy novels. His collection Dear Mr. President was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hudson was named one of Granta’s 20 Best of Young American Novelists and was a recipient of the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, and the Adele Steiner Burleson Award in Fiction from the University of Texas at Austin. (more…)