Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social 🌈 Proudly queer-owned
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Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social Author of "78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World" (2024) Macmillan/
St. Martins Essentials/Sounds True
Tarot & Politics zine editor • they/he
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 Bi Trans GenX Anarchist in Baltimore City
www.mxlanesmith.com
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social We're the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet. Our website is free for readers, and we pay our authors and staff. Issue 68 is out now!
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Haley @haleyeah.bsky.social Blue dot. Gardening. Nature. Photography. Cats. Ally. Random thoughts. She/her.
ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social ANTIGRAVITY is a free monthly magazine distributed throughout the New Orleans metro region. We specialize in original content that spotlights local artists, politics, social justice issues, reviews, opinion pieces, comics, and original photography.
Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival @twfestnola.bsky.social #TWFest26 is slated for March 25-29. See you back in the French Quarter for a five-day affair celebrating readers, writers, and theatre lovers!
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Russell Dean @russelldeanwrites.bsky.social Writer of words. Creator of books. Super deaf. Super gay. Super Mario fan. #LleisiauCymraeg #ownvoices 🏴🏳️🌈
You can call me Russ. We’re friends now, whether you like it or not.
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
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Ash 📚✨ @readwithash.bsky.social My TBR hurts my feelings.
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Payton Malone @paytonmalonewx.bsky.social Morning Meteorologist in New Orleans, Catch me on WWL-TV, CBS Monday - Friday 4:30 am - 9 am.
Erin Donovan @erindonovan.bsky.social Documentary & commercial producer based in New Orleans. Currently writing a horror novel about the film industry 🏳️🌈♒
hannah westphall @westphall.bsky.social fiction author and photographer with a degree in political science that has proven wholly useless.
she/her.
guns suck.
Maurice Ruffin @mauricenow.bsky.social Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. 💐 I'm probably on my Substack: Sitting in Silence.✍️🏿https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
Samuel Cooley @writingsam52.bsky.social Give me a pen and I'll give you a world.
https://newplayexchange.org/users/93404/samuel-cooley
Louisiana Tech University Alumnus - 2022 🐶
University of New Orleans Alumnus - 2025 ⛵
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
M. Kelleher @mizkelle.bsky.social Speculative fiction and horror writer/ Theater professional living in NOLA
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social NOLA. SFFH/crime/journalist. BASFF & Locus notable stories ‘23. Indie author
Contributor to Antigravity Magazine & Gambit
Words in: Buzzfeed News, Politico, Apex Mag, Fiyah, more.
NOLA 40 under 40 2025!
NOVEL: “The Pike Boys” books2read.com/thepikeboys
Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press)
writer and teacher in New Orleans
stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others
Third Lantern Lit @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social A New Orleans based non-profit providing community-building, events, education, and resources to writers at all career stages
K.L. Anderson @klandersonland.bsky.social Author of But First You Need a Plan (Leapfrog Press).
Ecologist by training.
My favorite Muppet is Grover.
she/her
https://klandersonauthor.com/
Sky Burr-Drysdale @sky-burr-drysdale.bsky.social Aerospace Sr. Analyst by day, writer and hockey lover by night. Go Bolts!! I live near the Gulf of Mexico.
Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social They/them 🏳️⚧️🔞
Fuck genAI 🖕
Author of fantasy, sci-fi, & horror romance ✍️🐉🚀🧟♀️💞
Smutfluencer ❤️🔥
I read 🏳️⚧️ books
DISPOSABLE MAGIC, a cephalopod fantasy romance 🐙
THE GILDED VEIL: Pro wrestling meets classical theater 🤼♀️ 🎭
🔗 https://linktr.ee/danifinn
Travis Joesph @travisjoseph.com Writer, policy analyst, and advocate. I write at the intersection of policy, humanity, and power—breaking down the policies that empower us and the systems that fail us.
Also, I swear a lot.
Substack: blog.travisjoseph.com
#HIVsky #LGBTQ #PublicHealth
Elm Jed @elmojedi.bsky.social Award Winning Romance Author
Bi✨ Chaos✨🩷🤍💜🖤💙
Veteran & slight coffee fanatic
C.M. Berry @cmberryauthor.bsky.social I daydream a lot. Sometimes I write it down.
Alex Harford @alexharford.bsky.social #ShortStory & flash writer of spec fic, fantasy, weird, horror, literary. Poet.
Travel photographer of outdoors & places that don't seem real.
Loves music, film, running, and more.
Staffordshire, UK.
https://AlexHarford.uk
SJ Renard ✍️ Writer @sjrenard.bsky.social Retired K-12, public virtual school teacher, now focusing full-time on repurposing gems from the past, and bringing authentic stories in my head to life on the page.
https://www.sjrenard.com/
Arien Skye is querying @arienskyewrites.bsky.social SFF writer and aspiring trad author. Winner of Writinf Day Workshops First Pages Romance 2025 💕ND/DIS
I’m not here often. Find me on X and IG
https://linktr.ee/ArienSkye
N.L. Carter @nlcarterwrites.bsky.social Author (Fantasy, Sci-Fi). Editor.
Banging my head against my keyboard in defiance of stingy words.
https://linktr.ee/millennilols
coda | author & poet @codacola.bsky.social Author | Poet | Court Jester
Author of romance (and soon SFF, horror, and literary fiction). Also poetry as J. Hudson.
“Houndstooth” & “Pretty Boy” out now!!
Books and poems available here:
onemorecircle.carrd.co
Melissa M Garcia @melissamgarcia.bsky.social SoCal Resident, Mystery/Crime Fiction Author, and LA Kings fan. (#GoKingsGo) Author of the Luc Actar crime series, including Falling Angels, Chasing Demons & Raising Hell and the Death Valley Mystery series (Stranger & Next of Kin).
She/her/hers
Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #NYC 🏳️🌈
Author of MADAME ELDRIDGE’S WAYWARD HOME FOR UNRULY BOYS BenjaminRyanBooks.com
Amazon Best Seller, Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Award, Book Fest Award Winner, & Book Blogger’s Novel of the Year Award FINALIST! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alex Z @alexzoubine.bsky.social Writer, Author, Poet | Producer of BIOME | First Reader @ The Colored Lens | Story Reviewer | Dog lover | Analytics Aficionado
Megan Daniels @meganauthor.bsky.social Hopeful writer ✍️ Avid reader 📚
Rep: Trellis Literary Managment
TIME STRUCK (Ballantine / Random House 2027)
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social 👻 SFFH writer from MN
🌌 SFWA, Codex
🌿 sometimes moss
✏️ Work in Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, Nature: Futures, The Saturday Evening Post, Adventitious, Gavagai, +
🚫 no gen AI 🚫
Story 🔗 https://gavagai.com/@abigailkemske/links 🌳 AbigailKemske.com
Iain Aire @iainaire.bsky.social Word alchemist, the quest for the unobtainable. EcoFiction, Fantasy, SciFi, Crime & Book Binder. The borderland of worlds. www.iainaire.com The Grey Pilgrim’s Gambit https://thegreypilgrimsgambit.laterpress.com Seeds anthology https://seeds.laterpress.com
Eric is deep in the word mines @ericgmoore.bsky.social Working on observability stuff at a place. Lover of Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror—currently working on a novel.
Other interests include: tech, finance, TTRPGs and poker.
Kellraiser III: Kell on Earth 🎃 @ohhellkell.bsky.social Writer. Film nerd. Horror girl. All kinds of queer. Author of the books In the Shadow of Extinction, Rakasa, and new forthcoming works of queer horror.
She/her
Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/kellywobbegong
Venmo: @Kelly-Wobbegong
Abolish ICE.
Kit Author @kitauthor.com Wild Spirit Storyteller. Butch Enby. Sacred Herd & Flock Tender
EponaAuthorSolutions.com (Author Tech)
KitAuthor.com (#fantasy, #equestrian lit)
FeathermaneSoul.com (#neurodivergent/#queer grief & spiritual support)
PetGriefPathfinder.com (pet loss grief)
Jeanne Roland @jeannerolandwrites.bsky.social I'm an author of romantic & fun YAish histfic/fantasy adventures, a lover of opera, classic films, & all things classical, + mom of twins & own a Bernese Mt. dog named Corelli!
https://mybook.to/MyArchersSeries
My DMs are not activated, so don't bother!
Rebecca Gummere @rgummere.bsky.social "An agnostic ex-pastor on the hunt for God in a small RV with two big dogs. What could go wrong?" Memoir, essays. Words in HuffPost, TIME, Oprah Daily, Daily Beast, NYT, Boston Globe. NC
Mystery, Memoir, and Meaning @ https://rebeccagummere.substack.com
Morgan Nyberg @morgannyberg.bsky.social Life is short. You deserve to read my work.
https://www.morgan-nyberg.ca/
A s p e n🕊️©️(AspenBrave®️™️) @aspenbrave.bsky.social #BraveWrite|#Author|#Poet|#Screenwriter|#vss365|#tanka|#haiku|#PoetsOfBlueSky|
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Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social I write enigmatic, paradoxical, melancholic micro-writes. #INFJ; My writes: http://allpoetry.com/Verde_Mar; Other platforms: tetrametracall1 🎶 💙 🐾 🦋
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social Author of How to Survive a Bear Attack, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction | I write about wild things, I run & I read
https://www.claire-cameron.com
Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer, Rochester NY. Words in Apex, Radon, FFO, elsewhere.
🌐 www.parkermoneill.com
Carter Novels @carternovels.bsky.social The O'Rourke Series, A CHANCE OF A GHOST, HILL OF SACRIFICED SOULS, MAGIC BENEATH MANHATTAN & THE FIREFIGHTER'S GHOST We're also podcasters & paranormal investigators. Find us at www.IndieBookSource.com. Also follow @joancarter1976.bsky.social
NO DM's
Paul Awad @paul-awad1.bsky.social Filmmaker. Author. College Professor.
Co-author of the sci-fi novel When Earth Shall Be No More. Films: Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace, A Savage Nature.
Lover of coffee, cats, and storytelling. More at www.Paul-Awad.com
Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social novelist (COUCH, SHERWOOD NATION), technologist, & maker of things https://levinofearth.com
Also:
Publisher at https://gumballpoetry.org, a tiny poetry journal out of a capsule machine, and other projs https://ideacog.net/apps.
Michelle M. Smith @michellemsmith.bsky.social Author & Reader of Horror, Suspense & Thrillers. Current WIP: A psychological thriller. Addicted to sunsets and Red Vines. Day job: Blowing sh*t up
Random Will @randomwill.bsky.social Be kind. #confelicity
Writer of various fictions. "Your life has no meaning, but in a good way." #amquerying xworlds #fantasy #scifi novel #writingcommunity
#dolcefarniente
Fan of...
NY Islanders (NHL)
Gamera (Kaiju)
Deadpool
Capybaras
Devon Ellington @devonellington.bsky.social FT writer, playwright, radio writer publishing under multiple names. Expanding into multi-disciplinary arts. Tarot reader owned by cats. No DMs.
lnk.bio/DevonEllington
Robert E Kreig @robertekreig.com Author.
Drinker of coffee and eater of chips.
Sith Lord and Imaginary Space Unicorn.
Australian. 🇦🇺
I ignore DMs.
www.robertekreig.com
https://linktr.ee/robertekreig
Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social Fiction writer. WVU MFA grad. Lover of dogs, cats, and sometimes kids. Short story collection, The Monsters Are Here, out now from ELJ editions. Loridangelo.com
Rob The Novelist @thenovelistm8ch.bsky.social Recovering filmmaker. Aspiring novelist. #indiefilm #Screenwriter/Director of indie miracles #AroundtheWorld & #BBD. Author of upcoming “Order Status” #mystery (s) and “Apotheosis” #LitRPG series.
Substack: https://robhagans.substack.com?r=2kkdmt
Amanda Jaros Champion @amandakjaros.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Hiker. Treehugger.
www.amandakjaros.com
#Binders
Editor of Labor of Love: A #LiteraryMama Staff Anthology
Author of 100 Things to Do in #Ithaca Before You Die and In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the #AppalachianTrail
🔞 Eldon Macwood | Author of Grimdark and Cyberpunk🏳️🌈 @eldonmacwood.bsky.social ✍🏼✨🐉🦄🔮🧙♂️🧝♀️🏹🛡️⚔️📚☕️🌆🌈☂︎
Blog: https://grimwood-notice-board.tumblr.com
Author of #Grimdark Fantasy and #Cyberpunk (I call it cybergrimpunk)
#writingcommunity #ProAI
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Luna | Romance Author @lmramirezwriter.bsky.social Romance that slays 🔪
I write smutty books and say smart things
LADY KILLER out now🫀
Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social Purveyor of nonbinary finery & queer romances for wounded hearts.
AuDHD 🍁🦘🏳🌈🍉 No Space For Hate
find my books at willforrest.com
Vanessa Harbour @nessharbour.bsky.social Author. 📚♿️PhD. Academic. Programme Leader BA Creative Writing. Uni of Winchester. SoA. Always looking for the positive in a complicated life
James J. A. Gray MA (He/Him) @aspire2write.bsky.social Writer of words, Master of Arts, player of Magic, eater of food, drinker of coffee, Lvl 5 Paladin (currently) - The Vacant Throne now querying
Cat Connor @catconnor.bsky.social Crime writer, tequila drinker, mostly a good person. Has cats. www.catconnor.com
Francisca (That’s Fun To Say) ✨ @reginaphalange1111.bsky.social Writer.
Podcast Host.
Dream Weaver.
Muppet and Music Lover. 🎶 🪩
I have a podcast. 🎙️
Listen to Think Piece on my website. Or download it on all you favorite listening platforms.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-piece/id1861972845
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Léon Othenin-Girard @logthatdata.bsky.social 
Stephen Lehane Smith @inherentspice.bsky.social Writer, comedian, software engineer.
@sylamore1.bsky.social @sylamore1.bsky.social Bruce VanWyngarden: Sr. Editor Memphis Flyer/Memphis magazine, author, columnist (AAN national Best Columnist 2018; 2nd Place 2024), progressive politics, fly-fishing, dogs, Duolingo (French), music, Memphis etc.
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Emma E. Murray @emmaemurray.bsky.social Award-winning horror writer. She/her. 🩷💜💙
Rep: literaryclara.bsky.social
🌊Seafoam Shallows (2028 Shortwave)
🐌Crushing Snails
😈When the Devil
💧The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions
🩸Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day
Website: EmmaEMurray.com
Serial Experiments Rain Corbyn @raincorbyn.bsky.social Writer and narrator of queer horror and smut. Words w Tractor Beam, Tenebrous, Lethe in 2026. Rain Corbyn’s Body of Work out now! If I block you it’s probably because of the AI.
🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
https://haruspex-audio.com/
linktr.ee/raincorbyn
Horror Tree @horrortree.com Paying speculative fiction #OpenCall s, #writing advice, #AuthorInterviews, #BookReview s, and more since 2011! By: @stuartconover.com
https://horrortree.com
https://linkie.bio/horrortree
Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social Canadian writer of short, speculative fiction. Also a Legal Assistant, Martial Artist, Classicist, Pet owner, and Time-traveller. She/They.
https://linktr.ee/melodyemcintyre
Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social Writer, artist, filmmaker, designer, comic book letterer, SFWA member and collector of toys. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jheijndermans.
http://www.joachimheijndermans.com
LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com Author of #1 Best Ongoing Story on Royal Road
The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon is free to read rrtewwbad.ljamberfantasy.com
Queer Irish author living in Scotland. I write fantasy fiction for adults using accessible language.
www.ljamberfantasy.com
Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social ✦ writer | reviewer | book blogger | cheerleader of books, poetry and art | all genres RT’d | resident Tolkien fangirl | linktr.ee/rjcrunden ✦
Rhosyn Goodfellow @faerytaleonfire.bsky.social Author of queer sci-fi, fantasy, and romance. Secretly just a collection of loosely-related stories dressed up in a meat suit.
https://linktr.ee/faerytaleonfire
mere rain @mererain.bsky.social Author of speculative fiction of all genres.
Pubbed by JMS Books, Mischief Corner, Flametree, CossMass, Mad Scientist Journal, Astral, Things in the Well...
Madeline Brown MA, presently deceased @ananalyses.bsky.social she/her, 20+, disabled, aroace rum-guzzler, gothicist, washed-up artist and writer of spooky books and essays about corpses
(mostly inactive, locked in the attic in case the love and/or money returns to me one day)
SOULLESS + MACHINE out there somewhere🐺
David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com Author, Publisher, some awards, USA Today bestseller. Wrangler of 12 cats & chinchilla, ex-Prez HWA, trivia not fact checked. Way left. Husband & father, I'm Crossroad Press! #startrek #stargate #WoD https://davidniallwilson.com #Pareidola #cats #horror
BeingMrB @neilbailey.bsky.social Simply trying to make a difference in the world. #running #writer #poet #CFS #fibromyalgia #Plogger #Autistic #author #writingcommunity #amquerying neilbailey.net
Susan @susanjenner.bsky.social Writer, daydreamer, notebook hoarder. Working on my third novel. Maybe I'll even publish this one.
I love dogs, coffee and books. Aussie. Ace. Ally. She/her. Living on Gabi Gabi country.
K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com Author of fantasy & horror 🖤
Socialist, humanist, naturalist, physiotherapist.
Confused Scandinavian. Depresso-bean. Punk-rock girl with flowers in her hair.
She/her 🏴☠️🏳️🌈
www.karenlykkebo.com
Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social Writer from Vermont. Affiliate HWA. Cinephile. Pretty sure one of my cats is an eldritch god. He/Him.
www.keithlafountaine.com
Rep: @literaryclara.bsky.social
E.W. Doc Parris @ewdocparris.com He, Him, Y'all.
SCIENCE FICTION | DOUBLE FEATURE
Sci Fi Author | SFWA |
Wokey McFuckYou | Neuro-Vanilla |
THE DENT IN THE UNIVERSE |
THE AURORA'S PALE LIGHT |
THE KINGDOM OF NOD (APRIL 2027) |
https://www.ewdocparris.com/novels/
Oh, and Fuck ICE.
Bobby Miller @bobbymillertime.com Voice Director at Rockstar Games LA | Filmmaker (The Cleanse, TUB, Critters Attack!) | Author (Situation Nowhere) | http://BobbyMillerTime.com
Ian Critchley @iancritchley.bsky.social Writer and Editor | Winner Hammond House, HISSAC | Stories in Best British Short Stories, Mechanics Institute Review, Structo, Lighthouse, Litro, Fiction Desk and others | Short story chapbook published by Nightjar Press
iancritchley.com
William Beck @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social Professional procrastinator & occasional author of fantasy, horror and sci-fi.
Books available on Amazon.
https://books2read.com/ap/xLLovz/William-Beck
Ryan Van Ells @ryanvanellswrites.bsky.social (He/Him) 🏳️🌈
NO FUTURE TO BE HAD out March 2027 from Laughing Man House
Author of dark fiction based in Milwaukee, WI. Words in Anomaly, October Screams, and on Creepy.
https://linktr.ee/ryanvanells
*Opinions are my own*
B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com She/They. Pittsburgh-born writer, researcher, and aspiring bog body. Host of the #MorbidMarch and #13MorbidMondays events at @morbidimagining.bsky.social. Greyromantic. Anti-AI.
You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
Hadassah Shiradski @dassawrites.bsky.social Queer ND goth. I write spooky stories!
'What Happened at Hawthorne House', my debut, is out now!
Writing a second novella, a story in verse, and a collection of doll stories 🖤
Playing with poetry and interactive fiction 🖤
🚫No AI🚫
𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝙲𝚊𝚜𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚒 @annaliterally.bsky.social Hallmark-to-Horror filmmaker (writer/producer/art director, etc) & multi-passionate creative w/ @markliterally.bsky.social
Deadline once called us “debutants”.
👟 junkie, 🐰 mom, concert 📷, musician, UCLA.
Nashville
https://linktr.ee/annaliterallyig
Fleur Bradley Visscher @fleurbradley.bsky.social Probably off on a Colorado hike somewhere. Author of Get a Clue & MG mysteries Midnight at the Barclay Hotel & Daybreak on Raven Island (Viking), Double Vision trilogy (Harper). MWA, SinC, SCBWI member.