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✍️ Author of YA fantasy, paranormal & science fiction books
📚 Genre-hopping reader
💻 Engineer
✈️ Traveler
📍 Minnesota
🔜 THE GHOSTS OF GUNFLINT BAY
We're nearing the release date for my YA paranorma We're nearing the release date for my YA paranormal mystery THE GHOSTS OF GUNFLINT BAY, so it's time to assemble the ARC team!! 👻🌻 Make your spooky season extra spooky with a haunted lighthouse, shipwrecks, murder mysteries, Great Lakes lore, creatures of the deep, a girl who can speak to ghosts, and a ghost who insists he isn't dead. 👻🖤🎃 If you'd like to be one of the first to read it and you're willing to leave an honest review, apply for an eARC! Copies will be sent out around September 10th, and I'm hoping most of the ARC team reviews will be posted by the end of October (although before the release date is always a plus)! Application 🔗 in b!o 🖤🕯️ Thanks in advance to anyone interested! Shares appreciated 🫶 Feel free to DM with any questions! (PS rest in peace Dolly Parton, our bookish queen!)
As usual, a bit late to the trend, but I wanted to As usual, a bit late to the trend, but I wanted to recommend some excellent, talented artists that I've commissioned for cover illustrations or character art in the past! 🎨🖼️ Even if a commission isn't in your budget, I highly recommend attempting to create your own art. Even stick figures are so much better than AI, which steals from artists and harms the environment! 🚫 Do you have a favorite character artist or art you've commissioned? I'm always looking for more artists to follow on insta! #indieauthors #authorlife #characterartists #characterart #authorsofinstagram
Convincing you to read The Ghosts of Gunflint Bay Convincing you to read The Ghosts of Gunflint Bay (out Sept 29) through my favorite beta reader comments! 🖤🌻 I had the best beta readers, who really helped shape and refine the story... And who were also hilarious with some of their reaction comments! 😂 Ebook is available for preorder at a discounted price of $2.99. There's a preorder incentive character art postcard up for grabs, and you could win a book box full of goodies! If you're an arc reviewer, stay tuned because ARC signups are coming soon! 📚 Which one is your favorite comment? If you beta read for me, do you recognize any? 😂 #betareaders #yamystery #2026books #booksofinstagram #indieauthors
I’m so excited to be part of the cover reveal team I’m so excited to be part of the cover reveal team for The Memory Shells, @charityrau's upcoming Little Mermaid x Peter Pan retelling! 🐚✨🌊 If you love: 🐚YA fantasy 🌊Fairytale retellings 🐚Cinnamon roll MMCs 🌊Animal companions 🐚Ocean Magic This one is for you!🩵 #yafantasybooks #2026books #fairytaleretellings #indiebooks #coverreveal
Tropes you'll find in my upcoming novel, The Ghost Tropes you'll find in my upcoming novel, The Ghosts of Gunflint Bay! 🌻👻 Now is a great time to preorder, as the book is priced at $2.99 but will go up to the regular price of $3.99 after release. All preorders can also receive a free character art postcard and will be entered to win a book box full of goodies (to be revealed soon)! Releasing Sept. 29, 2026 🦋 What's your favorite mystery or Gothic trope??
Happy National Book Lovers Day!! 📚🫶 I've been hea Happy National Book Lovers Day!! 📚🫶 I've been heads down on editing Ghosts, but I did want to take a minute to wish everyone a happy book lovers day from me and my four books (photographed together for the first time here!). We love all book lovers of course, but especially those who love books enough to write them for us to read 🔥💕 #nationalbookloversday #bookloversday #shelfiesunday #indieauthors #yabookstagram
Working on edits! ✍️ #amediting #authorlife #indi Working on edits! ✍️ #amediting #authorlife #indieauthors #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram
They're 10s but they have some issues... You can They're 10s but they have some issues... You can meet these characters - Evangeline, Arthur, Jonah and Lucy - in my upcoming novel THE GHOSTS OF GUNFLINT BAY. If you like haunted lighthouse, historical settings, Gothic vibes, family secrets, and slow burn romance, this one's for you! Preorder now for the discounted price of $2.99 🖤🌻👻 Portraits by the talented @lesyablackbird 💕 #characterart #hesa10but #gothicfiction #2026books #yamystery
It's always a treat to visit a new indie bookstore It's always a treat to visit a new indie bookstore, and at @posmanbooks, you can also grab an extra literal treat since ice cream is sold right inside! This was such a fun bookstore with great staff picks and a fun stationery and sticker selection too! Definitely stop by if you're ever in Pittsburgh. 💕📚🍦 It's located in the Strip district, not far from the main Primanti Bros location. I took home some new stationery, stickers, and a copy of The Death of King Arthur 👑⚔️ #posmanbooks #pittsburghbookstore #indiebookstores #bookshopsofinstagram #shelfiesunday
Freshly picked book recs!! 📚💐 Choose your summer v Freshly picked book recs!! 📚💐 Choose your summer vibe, get six book recs, whether you enjoy tropical settings 🏝️, romantic fun in the sun 💕, swashbuckling adventures 🏴‍☠️, spooky summerween books 👻, winter escapes ❄️, or summer camp vibes with a dark/mystery edge! 🗡️ Have you read any of these? What's your summer reading vibe? #bookrecommendations #summerreading #beachreads #booksofinstagram #bookrecs📚
As promised, I'm delighted to share this character As promised, I'm delighted to share this character art portrait by the talented @lana_banana_arts 🖤🌻 I love how she brought to life a romantic moment between Evangeline and Arthur, complete with the moody, Gothic feel of the story 😍👻 You can get your very own copy of this painting (and read Arthur & Evangeline's story!) by preordering THE GHOSTS OF GUNFLINT BAY and requesting a postcard at the form in my 🔗🌳. Open international. One lucky winner will receive a book box full of goodies as well! Now a little more about THE GHOSTS OF GUNFLINT BAY, coming Sept 2026... Minnesota, 1890. Newly orphaned and nearly penniless, seventeen-year-old Evangeline Greenslade and her sister Lucy leave Chicago, heading north to find their only living relative. They’ve never met their Great Uncle Amos, who tends a lighthouse on Lake Superior, but he’s their last hope of finding a safe and stable home. Their arrival in Gunflint Bay coincides with the disappearance of the Wiley siblings. Mystery turns to tragedy when Tabitha Wiley is found dead in the lake—by none other than Amos. Rumors have swirled around the hermit-like lighthousekeeper since the suspicious drowning of his sweetheart 40 years ago. Attempting to clear his name, Evangeline investigates Tabitha’s death. As she becomes entangled with the townsfolk, she encounters several suspects and two suitors, each with something to hide. Thirteen-year-old Lucy Greenslade just wants a friend, someone to confide in about her ability to speak to the dead. When she meets an unusual ghost claiming to be the missing Jonah Wiley, she laments that a friend should finally come along—and he’s not even alive. Jonah claims otherwise, and, hoping to help him rejoin the living, Lucy agrees to aid him in catching his sister’s killer. Amidst the townsfolk’s growing unease and strange happenings in the lake, the Greenslade sisters fight for their new home. They must uncover the truth about the fateful night the Wiley siblings went missing—and the mysterious death decades ago—without becoming the newest victims of Gunflint Bay. 🌊👻 #gothicfiction #characterart #2026books #booksofinstagram #yaparanormal
I have character art!! 😍 Specifically the characte I have character art!! 😍 Specifically the character art for the preorder incentive postcard! That's right, preorder my upcoming paranormal murder mystery THE GHOSTS OF GUNFLINT BAY and you'll receive a FREE character art postcard, plus be entered to win a book box full of goodies 💕 Just a quick sneak peek today, but come back tomorrow to see the full art reveal by the talented @lana_banana_arts 🌻 #booksofinstagram #murdermysterybooks #gothicfiction #2026books #indieauthors
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