Dragon Dreams Authors - Draco Amethystus

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Maria Grace

Six time BRAG Medallion Honoree, #1 Best-selling Historical Fantasy author Maria Grace has her PhD in Educational Psychology and is a 16-year veteran of the university classroom where she taught courses in human growth and development, learning, test development and counseling. None of which have anything to do with her undergraduate studies in economics/sociology/managerial studies/behavior sciences. She pretends to be a mild-mannered writer/cat-lady, but most of her vacations require helmets and waivers or historical costumes, usually not at the same time.

She writes gaslamp fantasy, historical romance and non-fiction to help justify her research addiction.

Her books are available at all major online booksellers.

She can be contacted at: author.MariaGrace@gmail.com | Facebook | Random Bits of Fascination

Addison J Fulton

Addison Fulton was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico on the most beautiful sunsets. She has deep roots, like everything that grows in the desert. She believes all of life can be sorted into the following categories: the beautiful, the grotesque, and the mundane. In her work, she seeks to create art that exists at the intersection of all three. She has previously been published in the literary magazines, Homer Humanities, Scribendi and in the short story anthology Pretty Obscure. She has a series of urban-fantasy thriller novels titled Social Animals, debuting in 2024 with Far West Press.

Learn more about Addison at: Author Website| Instagram

Rachael Ikins

Rachael Ikins is a 2016/18 Pushcart, 2013/18 CNY Book Award nominee, 2018 Independent Book Award winner, & 2019 Vinnie Ream & Faulkner poetry finalist. 2021 Best of the Net nominee, 2023 2nd place winner Northwind Writing Competition. A Syracuse University graduate. Author/illustrator of nine books in multiple genres. Her writing and artwork have appeared in journals world wide from India, UK, Japan, Canada and US. She is associate editor for Clare Songbirds Publishing House.

Learn more about Rachael at: Instagram | Facebook | Facebook | Clare Songbird Publishing

N.M. Lambert

N. M. Lambert is a part-time writer, editor, avid reader and gamer, and a heavy metal enthusiast. She graduated from Northern Arizona University with a bachelor’s in both criminology and anthropology and with minors in both French and psychology. When not writing, she can be seen surfing the web, singing and sometimes trying to perfect her metal growls, and spending way too much time on Animal Crossing, Oblivion, and Skyrim. She currently lives in Pollock Pines, California with her family and a menagerie of dogs, birds, and a cat.

Charles Ta

Charles Ta is a writer, illustrator, and educator based in Union City, NJ. His short story “Tough Luck, Kid” was previously published as part of a short story anthology in the book BLAST by author Robert Blake Whitehill, the latest entry in his Ben Blackshaw action/thriller series. He has also had stories published in Sci-Phi Journal (“Xenogram: A Chronology Of The Global Erasure Of Vowel Number Three, And The Merger Of Man”), and 365 Tomorrows (“To the Bitter End”), as well as written freelance nonfiction pieces for clients on Linkedin. When not immersed in a good book or traveling to strange, often alien worlds, Charles teaches special education students in West New York, NJ.

Learn more about Charles at: Instagram | Author Website

Kyle Derek

Kyle is an award-winning poet and voice-over artist, a Toronto based actor, operatic bass, writer, digital composer, director, and producer. He’s also the co-founder of Indie Opera Hub, and the Managing Director for North American Operations at Octant Aerospace Consulting. His current claims to fame are voicing Drago on the animated series Bakugan, and Batman on the fan-made series, Batman: Just A Mortal.

As a writer, he’s been produced as a playwright (Macbeth’s Head, Don Juan: An Episode), and screenwriter (Street Smarts, This is Bill, Revenge for the Duchess of Malfi, Movies Matter, Actorapists, The Car, Gamers Anonymous), and has written libretti for three original operas, The Lion Heart, The Bat and the Bells, and Possession, and created the book and score for two new operas in pasticcio, James Bond: A Convenient Lie, and Conan and the Stone of Kelior. He was awarded the Winning Writer’s War Poetry award for The Rose Of Ilium (now called Achilles and the Queen), a poem composed in heroic couplets that tells of the doomed love between Achilles and Penthesilea, and, after a long break, he’s returned to poetry recently having completed the writing and recording of his novel length epic poem, The Blessed, a selection of which is featured in Dragon Dreams, and which is pending release. He’s currently assembling a chapbook of his love poetry called Ravenous.

Learn more about Kyle at: Author Websit e | YouTube | Instagram | Amazon

D.A. Schneider

D.A. Schneider is an author of horror and mystery who lives in Indianapolis, IN. After trying for some time to break into the comic book industry with his artwork, D.A. decided to focus on writing instead. A former NFL and entertainment columnist, D.A.’s most recent books include the cozy murder mystery Death of a Scholar (Holly Reynolds Mysteries Book 1) and the horror/crime novel Salvation. D.A. also writes fantasy under the name G.R.V. Stone.

Learn more about D.A. at: Author Website | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Audible | Instagram

Sophie St John

Sophie St John is an author based in Perth, Western Australia. She primarily writes short fiction that tests the boundaries and definitions of various genres. In her free time, Sophie enjoys reading, listening to classic 80s heavy metal, and spending time with her four pet rabbits.

Learn more about Sophie at: Author Website | Instagram

Emma Space

Emma Space is a recent graduate student of the UNC Charlotte’s Creative Writing Master’s program. She grew up in New England and developed her love of the outdoors underneath the changing colors of the leaves. Currently she enjoys working on farms and writing science fiction and fantasy.

Learn more about Emma at: Author Website | Instagram

Caolán Mac An Aircinn

Caolán Mac An Aircinn is a classicist, archaeologist, translator, editor and opportunistic zookeeper who writes primarily in his native Irish. Dragon Dreams represents Caolán’s first work published in English.

Farzana Nasrin

My name is Farzana Nasrin and I am a graduate in BA English and currently study a MA in Creative Writing. I like to write poetry and personal essays (particularly about my pet budgie).

Learn more about Farzana at: Instagram | X

Phillip Leavenworth

Phillip Leavenworth often says that he couldn’t find the book he wanted on a shelf, so he wrote it instead! He is a former Los Angeles Times employee. He received his B.A. in English Rhetoric and Composition with a Professional Writing certificate from California State University Long Beach (CSULB) in 2023. He has three A.A. degrees in English, Journalism, and Creative Writing from Long Beach City College (LBCC), with designs to collect more. He has been a participant in the LBCC Creative Writing community since 2011. He was accepted into the MFA in Creative Writing program at San Diego State University and intends to explore a Ph.D. in English Literature… eventually. He lives in Los Angeles County with his fiancée.

Learn more about Phillip at: LinkTree

KT Morley

KT Morley is an Eastern Pennsylvanian author. He spent twenty years conspiring to teach the youth of America about Algebra and the plight of a hopelessly lost X before advancing to manage his school’s Humanities department. He has published in several anthologies: Rogue Blades Entertainment’s Crossbones and Crosses and Death’s Sting, and the Dragon Soul Press Anthology Coffins and Dragons.His latest anthology work, 21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain by Konsensus Network, released in the fall of 2023.

Learn more about KT at: Facebook | Instagram | Author Website

Cassandra R. D’Alessandro

Cassandra R. D’Alessandro is a writer from a small town in Ontario. She writes short stories, poems, and novels across various genres such as fantasy, romantasy, thriller, and mystery. Her favourite subjects to write about include vampires, daring quests, werewolves, epic love stories, witches, magic, fae, and dragons. Outside of writing, Cassandra enjoys traveling, spending time outdoors, trying out new wellness trends, socializing, and reading.

Learn more about Cassandra at: Author Website | Instagram | Wattpad

Natalie Cooper

Natalie Cooper is a Child and Family Educator who spends her days working with families and her nights writing poetry and creating digital art. Natalie’s writing has appeared in Monash University’s 2023 Verge, Mudgee Valley Writers 2022 Anthology, Paper Road magazine and Positive Words magazine. Natalie’s photography has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Australian Photography (STAGES: Life in Lockdown) and the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre (Make A Fuss). Currently Natalie resides on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong country (Victoria, Australia) with her trio of mischief making children and partner in crime husband.

Learn more about Natalie at: Instagram

Karin Eaton

Karin Eaton is a writer, traveller and student of Ancient Egypt. Since retirement as an Arts Manager in Toronto, Ontario, she is enjoying the tranquility of country living, where she delights in observing the changing seasons. She particularly appreciates the metamorphosis of monarch butterflies in her garden and the migration of birds across the lake. When she is not indulging her love of travel and adventure, she spends her time experimenting with memoir, travel and poetry writing. She has won awards for her poetry and her work has been featured in a variety of publications including Common Tread – an online motorcycle magazine, the Persimmon Tree Short Takes and six Quillkeepers Press Anthologies.

Learn more about Karin at: Author Website | Instagram

Elisabeth Cherkas

Elisabeth is a university student completing her degree in Human Kinetics, but carries with her a childhood dream of becoming an author. As an avid reader and daydreamer, she is determined to share all about the worlds she has created in her mind. Elisabeth recently entered her first writing competition and was successful in making it to the top 60 writers in a field of over 3700 competitors. This success added fuel to her writing aspirations, and she is now pursuing her passion of filling the library shelves she used to empty each week.

Learn more about Elisabeth at: Author Website | Instagram

H.T. Schwartz

H. T. Schwartz is an English teacher with almost two decades of experience. She made speculative fiction her whole personality after her junior high librarian told her she should find something better than books about magic “and all that crazy stuff”. As a scholar, she researches literary genre, science fiction, and anthologies. In your face, Ms. Librarian! She now lives in Canada, where she moved to for her PhD, and where a husband, a cat, a dog, and a baby joined her party. She has a couple of articles in scholarly journals, but the short story “Rain Reverie Dance” is her first ever creative text to be published.

Learn more about H.T. at: Instagram

Ryan Askew

Ryan has always been fascinated by fantasy and fiction from a young age. Though he loves all visual mediums of storytelling, he grew up reading everything he could get his hands on, and was fortunate to have many books given to him over the years as gifts from his grandmother, herself an aspiring author, who encouraged his natural curiosity and proclivity for the written word. He later in life studied English literature and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley and hopes to one day share his passion for learning and reading by teaching literature with an emphasis on graphic novels. He is thrilled to have his first published poem featured in Dragon Dreams by Storm Dragon Publishing and looks forward to sharing more of his writing with the world. Ryan lives in San Diego, California and travels to Canada as often as he can to visit family.

Kimberly McAfee

Kimberly McAfee is a writer and poet residing in the US. She has authored/co-authored works in a variety of formats, such as websites, e-magazines, anthologies, and even a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Ms. McAfee has published the poetry collection, ‘The Savior and the Shadow Queen: A Fantastical Tale Told Through Sequential Poems,’ and the chapbook, ‘AmerAsian: My Journey to Becoming Whole as a Mixed Korean-American,’ with Quillkeepers Press; she has also self-published three chapbooks, available on Amazon. You can find more of her poetry on her Instagram page @writerpoetkim.

Learn more about Kimberly at: Instagram | LinkTree

Curtis Moore

Curtis Moore grew up in Bishop, California, where he spent his summers packing mules in the Eastern Sierra. He has published articles on scientific mediation in Nevada Lawyer and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Journal, as well as articles on horsemanship in Nicker News, and was shortlisted for The Milk House’s 2023 Best of Rural Writing contest for his essay Co-Parenting With Cormac McCarthy. In his spare time Curtis rides his horse, writes, and makes memes about underrated fantasy novels.

Learn more about Curtis at: Author Website | Instagram | Instagram

Chrystal J. Raven

Chrystal J. Raven is a Canadian, tri-racial poet and artist.
Canvasing sublime emotional landscapes and the inspired energy of nature through the written word and visual mixed media. Combining poetry and mystical philosophy, she shares her stories to connect to self and create a space for readers to explore both celebrated and difficult concepts
and experiences.
Her work can be found in The Poetry Institute of Canada’s Anthology volumes: Passages of the Heart and Island Shores; The Far-Shining One from Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Colonialism and Music Therapy from Barcelona Publishers.

Learn more about Chrystal at: Author Website | Instagram | Instagram | Facebook

Peter Devonald

Peter Devonald is widely published in magazines/anthologies including London Grip, Door Is A Jar, Bluebird Word, Metachrosis, Vipers Tongue, Visual Verse, Voidspace and the6ress. He won the Waltham Forest Poetry Prize 2022, Heart Of Heatons Poetry Award 2023 & 2021, joint winner FofHCS Poetry Award 2023, Forward Prize nomination 2023, two Best Of The Net nominations and shortlisted Saveas 2023 & Allingham 2023. He is poet in residence at Haus-a-rest. Won 50+ film awards, former senior judge/ mentor Peter Ustinov Awards (iemmys) and Children’s Bafta nominated.

Learn more about Peter at: Author Website | Instagram | Facebook | X

Michael Betancourt

Michael Betancourt is originally from the United States specifically the Rio Grande Valley in DEEP South Texas. When you reach San Antonio you still have 4 hours further South to drive before reaching the RGV. Which after that the only place to go is either the Gulf of Mexico or actual Mexico. Michael is a proud Geek that fell into writing by way of D&D, Saturday Morning Cartoons, and Comic Books. He currently creates events for a living when he is not talking to the voices in his head and writing down their misadventures. Michael holds a BA in Public Relations and Advertising, a MA in Communication from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is pursuing a PHD in Mythological Studies and Folklore by way of Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Learn more about Michael at: Instagram | Threads

Ryan Blaney

Ryan Blaney finished secondary school with record high marks in English Language & Literature. Twenty years later he decided to actually put that skill to good use. A longtime reader of fantasy novels and comic books, Ryan has written a number of short stories beginning with works of fan fiction on sites like Archive of Our Own & Deviantart before testing the waters with his original pieces on platforms like Novello. In the past Ryan has also written articles for pop culture websites such as Bad Haven and Comicbuzz, including a thought piece on how the Northern Irish Troubles have been reflected in comic book media. He lives in a quiet village in County Down with his wife, three kids and writing companion/dog Molly.

Learn more about Ryan at: Instagram

Emma T. Elias

Emma T. Elias is an Australian writer of Lebanese decent. She has been writing stories, poems and scripts, for as long as she could hold a pen and has never lost her passion for it. She has had a number of short stories and poems published in anthologies and literary magazines but is working on a novel that she is looking forward to publishing. When she’s not at work or writing, she’s probably doing some other random hobby such as archery.

Learn more about Emma at: Instagram

Lloyd Britton

Usually describing himself as an artist and poet, Lloyd Britton pursues many creative endeavours and has a wide variety of interests that shows his versatility and uniqueness as an artist and intellectual. As a writer of fiction, he explores the genres of fantasy, surrealism, experimental prose and the blend between prose and poetry. He also explores ideas of existentialism, philosophy, religion, psychology, sociology, linguistics, interpersonal and
intrapersonal dynamics of relationships and the symbiotic and emergent nature of reality.

In 2020 he started a series of fantasy stories under the main title of Tales from the Welkin Wanderers. In this series Lloyd applies an experimental approach to high fantasy storytelling, using a wide cast of characters with multiple narrators and story lines that cross over and link
in a variety of ways. Each character tells their story from their unique perspective, allowing the reader to visualize their internal world, while having to figure out the wider reality of the realm they exist in. This creates a complex tapestry of beliefs and perceptions that just like in
real life are sometimes contradictory, showing the innate eccentricities in the way every individual perceives the reality they are a part of.

The ideas and themes that are explored in the fantasy genre are particularly appealing to
Lloyd, with a strong emphasis on world building and creation of lore being prevalent in his
work.

Learn more about Lloyd at: Instagram

Shea’Mia Harrell

Shea’Mia Harrell learned to love reading and the English language from an early age. With many story elements chasing around in her mind, it was a natural progression to writing her own stories. Though her love is the novel, especially fantasy, and even more specifically the epic fantasy, her debut was a children’s book “Boys Will Be Boys.” Besides reading and writing, Shea’Mia enjoys the natural world of her Western Washington home, dancing, crafting, and playing with her inquisitive cat, Sherlock.

Learn more about Shea’Mia at: Author Website | Good Reads | Pinterest | Instagram

Kathryn Malcolm

Kathryn is a British YA fiction author with a passion for classical art, mythology and folklore all of which echo throughout her work. She has been writing stories since before she could hold a pencil correctly but started her publishing journey in 2022 with her upcoming debut novel The Shadow of the Scholar. She was born and raised in Southampton and holds a Bachelor of Art from the University of Southampton’s Winchester School of Art. She later completed a Postgraduate degree in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the University of Manchester. Kathryn now lives in Chester with her husband and, when she is not writing, works as a librarian.

Learn more about Kathryn at: Author Website | Instagram