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Fallon Raynes
Fallon Raynes is a paper pusher by day, writer by night. Writing has been in Fallon’s blood for as long as she can remember. Short stories and poems kept her mind at ease earlier on. Life’s adventures have swirled in her mind to create some exaggerated stories that she’s excited to put to paper and share with the world. To relax, Fallon enjoys watching the ID and Hallmark channels, reading, and the outdoors.
Fallon resides in lower Michigan with her husband and fur-baby.
Andrew Harrowell
Andrew self-published three very different books (a clash of immortals and management consultants, dystopian whodunnit and a very-young-coming-of-age tale) before having short stories featured in three horror anthologies. This success inspired him to start letting more darkness out of his finger tips and he self-published his first horror novel in 2025. He’s now editing the sequel and you can keep up to date on this, and all his other mad raving,on Threads and Bluesky (@harrowellandrew)
Natalie Layng
Natalie Layng is a Canadian Adult-Fantasy author. Natalie has been writing for most of her teenage and adult life but started publishing those stories in December 2019 with her first book, Love and Pain in Zion. Natalie’s faith as a polytheistic witch leads her to many storylines involving the gods which surround her. She lives with her husband and stepson in Bowmanville, Ontario. They hope to one day open their own Pagan store together.
Maria Vickers
Maria Vickers is a bestselling and award-winning author who currently resides in St. Louis, MO with her pug, Hunny. She has always had a passion for writing and after she became disabled in 2010, she decided to use writing as her escape. She believes that life is about what you make of it, you have to live it to the fullest no matter the circumstances.
Getting sick changed her life forever, but it also opened doors for her that she thought would always be out of reach.
Ivy Penn
Ivy Penn is a cozy-dark, multi-genre romance author who has a macabre sense of humor and loves horror movies. Growing up as a single child, she was often lonely and began creating characters to entertain herself. Now she shares her stories with her readers. Dark, morally grey, sweet, or dirty. Her belief is that all stories bloom in their own way. She lives in the midwestern United States with her husband and daughter. Her hobbies include drinking coffee, resin art, and video games.
CJ Landry
CJ Landry writes stories for readers who like their fiction a little dark, a little strange, and occasionally covered in blood.
An indie author with an enthusiastic disregard for staying in one genre, CJ writes everything from psychological thrillers and feminist revenge to paranormal romance, dark comedy, and whatever other questionable idea refuses to leave her alone.
Her stories tend to orbit complicated women, morally flexible decisions, monsters who may or may not be the actual monsters, and the deeply satisfying consequences of underestimating the wrong person. She firmly believes happily-ever-after is negotiable, villains deserve good dialogue, and sometimes murder really does solve the plot.
Based in East Tennessee, CJ spends an unreasonable amount of time creating fictional problems for fictional people, collecting new projects before finishing the old ones, and insisting that sharks will eventually evolve to breathe on land and kill us all.
When she isn’t writing, she’s usually building something else—because apparently having one creative obsession at a time would be too easy.
