multi-genre authors
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Adrienne Palma
Romance | Children's Literature Website Originally from New Jersey, Adrienne Palma, Ed.D., now lives on Roanoke Island in North Carolina. She is the author of two novels and the Under the Sea and Wildlife children's series. She loves to swim in open water, bicycle ride, and read, of course! She is presently working on her next novel and additional books in both children's book series. 
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Allie Marie
Historical Fiction | Fantasy | Cozy Mystery | Short Fiction/Anthology Paranormal/Supernatural Website Award-winning author Allie Marie grew up in Virginia. Her favorite childhood pastime was reading Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden mysteries, but she never expected to grow up to be a real-life police officer herself. Eventually worked her way up through the ranks, Allie retired -four times-as her experiences kept leading her to other law enforcement adventures in the US as well as overseas. After her final "retirement," Allie soon embarked on a quest to fulfill a long-time dream-to write mysteries and crime thrillers. Her plans were derailed when she found colonial ancestors in her family tree, which inspired The True Colors Series. This paranormal mystery series with modem local settings and colonial history has garnered multiple awards and leads to a planned spinoff collection, The True Spirits Trilogy. The first book released in the trilogy, Barley and Lace, will be followed by Rye and Thistle and finally Chardonnay and Oak. She is also working on a new series to be set in and around Suffolk, Smithfield, and Surry, VA. Her standalone historical mystery, Return to Afton Square, bridges the two series. She has contributed short stories to several anthologies, including murder mysteries that may lead to full novels. She has also released an epic fantasy short story and a Christmas novella. Those other planned mystery stories? They are finally getting their turn in 2026. Besides family, her passions are travel anywhere, any time, and camping with her husband Jack. |
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Beth Ford
Historical Fiction | Romance Website Beth Ford is a historical fiction author living in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She is the author of the novels In the Times of Spirits, Love Between Times: A Time Travel Romance, and After the Spirits Come: A Continuation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. She also writes the Cassie Woods, Reporter historical mystery romance novella series. Her work has also appeared in a variety of literary journals. 
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Bonnie Blevins
Paranormal/Supernatural | Romance | Suspense/Thriller/Action | Military Website Bonnie Blevins is an Army Veteran who was born and raised in Virginia. She began writing random stories while on active duty and after leaving the service she combined them into what would become her debut novel, Virgil Team. Finding inspiration in her military background and country roots she continues to write military science fiction with a sprinkle of romance. When Bonnie isn't writing she also volunteers as the head coach of her daughters' schools' cross-country team and enjoys horseback riding and video games. 
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Bradley Harper
Historical Fiction | Traditional Mystery/Detective Website Bradley Harper is a retired US Army pathologist. His debut novel, A Knife in the Fog, involves a young Doctor Conan Doyle in the hunt for Jack the Ripper. It was a finalist for a 2019 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American and is a Recommended Read by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate. Knife won Killer Nashville’s 2019 Silver Falchion as Best Mystery. The audiobook won Audiofile Magazine’s 2019 Earphone Award for Best Mystery and Suspense. His second novel, Queen’s Gambit, which involves a fictional assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, Won Killer Nashville’s 2020 Silver Falchion Award for Best Suspense and Book of the Year. Dr. Harper earned an Associate Degree in Creative Writing in 2018 at Full Sail University and an MA at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August 2022. His most recent novel, Maiden Voyage, involves an art heist aboard the Titanic, and was his thesis project at Napier. 
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Callie Thomas
Fantasy | Romance | Young-Adult Fiction Website Callie Thomas is an indie author who loves all things fairy tales—including twisting tales of her own. Her favorite stories have a mix of sweet romance, laughter, and a pinch of magic. When she's not writing, she enjoys playing board games, reading at the beach, and traveling the world with her husband and two boys. Since she can't live at Disney World, you'll find her near the historical battlefields and lush woodlands where her family lives in Fredericksburg, VA. She recently published her Backward Fairy Tales series, A Forest of Stolen Memories & A Sea of Golden Chains, and has more stories on the horizon. 
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Carol M. Scott
Comedy | Romance IG: @carolmscott15 Carol Maloney Scott is a happy and productive wife, empty nest mom, and wiener dog fanatic. She is a lover of donuts and eye shadow palettes, and is failing every day in her quest to become a morning person. She writes fast-paced, humorous fiction, filled with snappy banter, quirky characters, and real life dramedy. 
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Christine Trent
Traditional Mystery/Detective | Historical Fiction | Women's Fiction Website Christine Trent is the author of the Lady of Ashes historical mystery series, the Royal Trades historical fiction series, the Florence Nightingale Mysteries, and the new Heart of St. Mary's County series set in her Maryland hometown. The most recent book in the series, The Madness of Moll Dyer, fictionalizes the life of a legendary Maryland witch. Learn more at www.ChristineTrent.com. 
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Dee Armstrong
Suspense/Thriller/Action | Romance | Paranormal/Supernatural Traditional Mystery/Detective Website Dee Armstrong writes knee-melting romance and mind-bending mystery with a twist of sass and a splash of supernatural. She's the author of Visions of Emerald, Sleepwalking with Ruby, and Haunted by Amethyst—and launched her award winning JD Wolfe series with Haunted by a Broken Oath, in November 2025 from Outliers Suspense Publishing. A Killer Nashville Top Pick. Dee believes in tough heroines, complicated heroes, and ghosts who seriously need boundaries. Visit www.DeeArmstrong.com or follow on social media @DeeArmstrongAuthor for sneak peeks, behind-the-scenes chaos, and the occasional ghost story. 
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Denise LaJuan Peters
Fantasy | Historical Fantasy Website Denise LaJuan Peters writes tales where history and fantasy collide. This creates a world where the overlooked find their voice and he outcast discover belonging. Dragonshifters steal their way into her writing. But Denise’s favorite novels are Lvanhoe and Jane Eyre. Her deep appreciation for these classic keeps her work grounded in the human experience rather than a genre conventions. 
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Diane Fanning
Historical Fiction | True Crime | Traditional Mystery/Detective Website Diane Fanning is the Edgar-finalist, best-selling author of fifteen true crime books and 12 works of crime fiction. She is a recipient of the Defender of Innocence award from the Innocence Project. She has served as a consultant to 48 Hours, was a regular presence on 14 seasons of Deadly Women, and appeared on the Today Show, 20/20, Forensic Files, Snapped, the Biography Channel, Investigation Discover, E! and the BBC as well as numerous podcasts. 
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Ellen Butler
Suspense/Thriller/Action| Traditional Mystery/Detective | Historical Fiction Cozy Mystery Website Ellen Butler is the international bestselling author of the Karina Cardinal mystery series. Her experiences working on Capitol Hill and at a medical association in Washington, D.C. inspired the mystery-action series. Publishers Weekly called the Karina Cardinal mysteries, “intelligent escapism.” Butler also writes the Ariadne Winter historical mysteries as well as historical spy fiction. The Brass Compass has won multiple awards for historical fiction including: a Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award, Indie Reader Discovery Award, and a Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal. The second book in the duology, Operation Blackbird: A Cold War Spy Novel, is inspired by true events, and won a Next Generation Indie Book Award gold medal for historical fiction. 
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Erin Hayden
Non-Fiction| Cozy Mystery | Romance | Young-Adult Fiction Website Erin Hayden loves writing stories for both kids and adults, bringing warmth, humor, and heart to everything she creates. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Literacy Education, and she is passionate about inspiring a love of reading through stories that readers can connect with in meaningful ways. As a mother of four, including a child with Type 1 Diabetes and celiac disease, she understands the challenges families face and reflects those experiences in her books. In 2024, she founded BraveryBooks to share stories that celebrate resilience, friendship, and the everyday courage that makes life meaningful. 
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Eris Marriott
Fantasy | Romance | Young-Adult Fiction Website Eris Marriott is a fantasy author living in Orange, VA. She writes YA fantasy, romantic fantasy, and is a fan of tropes like enemies-to-lovers, "who did this to you?" and forgotten memories. When she's not writing, she can be found tending to her small "zoo," as she has several pets. She also, obviously, loves to read. Eris currently has five books published, two of which are in her vampire romantasy series, the Tales of the Shadow folk, and three of which are in her YA grimdark fantasy series, the Tales of the Selyento. 
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H M DuVal
Fantasy | Paranormal/Supernatural | Romance | Sci-Fi | Dystopian Website H M DuVal is a mother, Kinesiologist, and author of the Dream Walker series. She has always had a passion for good stories: telling them, sharing them, and getting lost in them. Fiction and fantasy genres, with a healthy dose of romance, are her favorite. She loves the incredible power they have to spirit us away from the mundane and into the sensational, and believes that shift in perspective helps us find the magic inside our own lives. She hopes that while reading her work, you are similarly transported. 
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Heather Weidner
Cozy Mystery | Short Fiction/Anthology | Traditional Mystery/Detective Website Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries. Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, Murder by the Glass, First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder, and Crime in the Old Dominion, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook. She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill. Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and two crazy dogs (Disney the Jack Russell and Cooper the Mini Aussie Shepherd). 
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Hunter J. Skye
Paranormal/Supernatural | Fantasy | Horror Website Is the darkness calling you? If so, come sit by me. I’m Hunter J. Skye, award-winning author of dark fantasy and monster romance. I was born with a rare nightmare disorder and raised in a haunted Victorian home. Those two factors predestined me to write about what lurks in the steamy night. Stop by my table for shadows & spice and everything not-so-nice! 
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Jacqueline T. Johnson
Children's Literature | Suspense/Thriller/Action | Fantasy | Young-Adult Fiction Website Jacqueline Johnson is an award-winning author and seasoned editor. She is best known for her five-book fantasy series, Sons of Meir, which explores themes of loyalty, power, and transformation. Jacqueline’s editorial expertise spans developmental editing, copy editing, and proofreading across fiction, nonfiction, and academic genres. She has collaborated with publishing houses and independent writers to elevate content while preserving each author’s unique voice. 
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Jacqueline Boulden
Suspense/Thriller/Action | Traditional Mystery/Detective | Women's Fiction Website Jacqueline Boulden is a multiple award-winning author whose novels are a mashup of mystery/suspense/women’s fiction. Her stories focus on strong independent women overcoming life’s challenges. 
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Janet Morris Belvin
Historical Fiction | Romance FB: @Janet Morris Belvin, Author Janet Morris Belvin is a storyteller at heart and a lifelong Southerner, born in the peach-loving town of Gaffney, South Carolina. A former schoolteacher, she writes for magazines and newspapers and lives in the historic heart of Colonial Williamsburg with her husband. She spends her days crafting tales about people she'd like to meet, places she dreams of visiting, and ideas that won't let her go. A nostalgic soul who loves Roy Rogers, Howdy Doody, old hymns, Motown and bluegrass music, Janet can't bear to part with her children's old toys and other relics no one else wants (stored lovely in an area of her attic she calls "the Archives.") She's owned a banjo for thirty-nine years and still only knows how to play "Buffalo Gals" but maybe someday...She Loves Diet Coke (the only acceptable soft drink), pie, classic movies, and libraries and is always trying to become a better person-with a little help from above. Though she loves to travel, the idea of a perfect day is one spend with her six children and nine grandchildren, surrounded by laughter, stories, and the kind of joy only family can bring. 
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Jenn Lessmann
Cozy Mystery| Fantasy Website Jenn Lessmann writes more snark/less dark urban cozies and witchy mysteries. She is the author of the Cate Corey's Unmagical Life trilogy, including Unmagical: a witchy mystery, Unforgivable: an urban cozy, and Unbelievable: a suburban legend. You can find her nonfiction work in Indie Author Magazine. A former barista, stage manager, and high school English teacher with advanced degrees from impressive colleges, she continues to drink excessive amounts of caffeine, stay up later than is absolutely necessary, and read three or four books at a time. 
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John DeDakis
Suspense/Thriller/Action| Traditional Mystery/ Detective | Non-Fiction Website Award-winning novelist John DeDakis (pronounced dee-DAY-kiss) is a former editor on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis is the author of six traditionally published novels in the Lark Chadwick mystery-suspense-thriller series. In his most recent novel, Enemies Domestic, Lark is a White House press secretary forced to make her extremely personal abort-or-not-to-abort decision in a highly toxic and polarized political fishbowl when abortion is a crime and a dictator becomes president. Enemies Domestic won the Pencraft, Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion, and Feathered Quill book awards and received the Grand Prize for Chanticleer’s Clue Award for Best Suspense/Thriller. 
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Julie Moffett
Comedy | Cozy Mystery | Historical Fiction | Paranormal/Supernatural Romance Short Fiction/Anthology | Suspense/Thriller Action Young-Adult Fiction Website Julie Moffett is the bestselling author of the long-running, geeky Lexi Carmichael Mystery Series that USA Today says: “…runs a riveting gamut from hilarious to deadly, and the perfectly paced action in between will have you hanging on to Lexi’s every word and breathless for her next geeked-out adventure.” Julie also writes the young adult White Knights spin-off series featuring a cool, teenage hacker girl. Julie's been publishing books for 25 years, but writing for a lot longer. She writes in the genres of mystery, young adult, historical romance and paranormal romance. 
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K.L. Murphy
Historical Fiction | Traditional Mystery/Detective Website K.L. Murphy is the author of The Great Forgotten (November 2025) as well as the award-nominated Her Sister's Death, a January 2023 Once Upon a Book Club Pick. Of Her Sister's Death, Publishers Weekly said, "Murphy keeps the tension high..." and "readers will eagerly turn the pages" and Library Journal called the book "[A] riveting tale..." In addition, she is the author of the Detective Callie Forde Mysteries: Last Girl Missing and The Murderer's Girl (August 2025) as well as the Detective Cancini Mystery Series featuring A Guilty Mind, Stay of Execution, and The Last Sin. 
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Katharine Schellman
Historical Fiction | LGBTQIA | Traditional Mystery/Detective Website Katharine Schellman is an award-winning author of historical crime fiction, including the Nightingale Mysteries and the Lily Adler Mysteries. Her novels, which reviewers have called "worthy of Rex Stout or Agatha Christie," have been named one of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of the Year, a Library Journal Best Crime Fiction of the Year, and a New York Times editors' pick. A former actor, onetime political consultant, and graduate of William & Mary, Katharine lives and writes in the mountains of Virginia. 
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Kayla Rutherford
Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Young-Adult Fiction Website A passionate reader turned young novelist, Kayla Rutherford is inspired by a love for compelling storytelling and the wonder of imagination, debuting an enthralling YA Fantasy/SciFi trilogy. Blood of Power introduces Ray Jackson, a grieving 19-year-old college student thrust into a supernatural conflict of refuge aliens and a race seeking their capture and return. The saga continues with Blood of Destruction, where Ray faces darker forces and deeper struggles as she navigates this perilous new life. The final installment, Blood of Revival, completes this trilogy with Ray's ultimate confrontation with destiny, teetering a line of morality for those she loves, and seeking an end of the injustice to the planet she now calls home. Kayla's journey began after graduating from James Madison University, finding the strength to self publish and navigate the rocky shores of marketing. She continues to dedicate herself to long nights of written words and stories that twine a piece of her soul to the heart of it's pages. Along with a passion for engineering and a day job that keeps her on her toes, it is in the dark where you would find her lost into a world of morally grey characters, siblings bonds, and a dozen manuscripts just waiting to be shared. Because she clearly doesn't have enough on her plate between time with friends, two crazy pups, kickball, work, and writing, she opened up a small business for all the bookies out there looking for something a little special. Enchanted Realms Co, LLC was founded in 2024 by Kayla Rutherford to provide her readers with an immersive experience within her stories, creating an online store selling soaps, candles, beaded jewelry, stickers, and bookmarks along with her published works. |