Meet four authors courtesy of Dorchester Publishing dedicated to taking readers on adventures: Edgar Award-winner Charles Ardai, thriller writer Anna DeStefano, romantic fantasy author Leanna Renee Hieber and Stoker Award-winner Jack Ketchum.
Edgar and Shamus Award winner Charles Ardai is the creator and editor of the critically acclaimed Hard Case Crime imprint. His 2007 novel Songs of Innocence (written under pseudonym Richard Aleas) was called “an instant classic” by The Washington Post and was selected as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly.
Anna DeStefano is the past president of Georgia Romance Writers, a group of more than 300 published authors and aspiring writers. With nearly half a million copies of her books in print in over five different languages, she is the nationally bestselling author of 11 award-winning novels. Dark Legacy, her lightning-fast romantic thriller, combines Gothic overtones and secret government technology.
Prism Award winner Leanna Renee Hieber is a classically trained actress and award-winning playwright who has adapted works of Victorian literature, such as Rainer Maria Rilke's and Lewis Carroll's, for the stage. Her debut, a gothic Victorian fantasy titled The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, is a mix of Libba Bray and Emily Brontë.
Jack Ketchum is a four-time Bram Stoker Award winner and the author of 11 novels—four of which were recently adapted into feature films: The Lost, The Girl Next Door, Red and Offspring. A writer’s writer, he has long held a position of high esteem among his genre peers, including Stephen King, who selected Ketchum’s Old Flames among his 10 favorite books of 2008.
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