Tag: Book Bloggers Novel of the Year Award

Anna Mocikat was born in Warsaw, Poland, but spent most of her life in Germany where she attended film school, worked as a screenwriter and a game writer for several years.

Her “MUC” novels have been nominated for the most prestigious awards for Fantasy and Science-Fiction in Germany.

In 2016 Anna moved to the USA where she continued her writing career.

“Shadow City” was her debut in English in 2019. She lives in Greenville, South Carolina, and is a proud dog-mom of three rescues who assist her when she’s writing.

Alan Gorevan is an award-winning thriller writer and intellectual property attorney. He lives in Dublin.

Patrick Samphire is the author of the adult fantasy novel SHADOW OF A DEAD GOD, as well as the middle grade novels SECRETS OF THE DRAGON TOMB and THE EMPEROR OF MARS. He has also published around twenty short stories and novellas.

Patrick has been writing stories since he was fourteen years old and thought it would be a good way of avoiding having to sit through English lessons at school. He was absolutely convinced that he would be famous by the time he was eighteen, but sadly, even infamy has eluded him.

He lives in Wales, surrounded by mountains, with his wife, their sons, and their cat.

When he’s not writing, he designs websites and ebooks.

I was born in Texas, spending the first half of my childhood outside Odessa and the last half outside Fort Worth. I started writing my first stories in letters to my grandmother, who lived in California. In my kindergarten print, I told her stories about rabbits and dogs and all sorts of other creatures.

My early childhood home was humble and isolated. I had my sister’s company, and as I grew, books. During the summer, my mother would drive us to the library in town once a week so I could exchange my large stack of borrowed books. After exhausting the entire children’s section of the Odessa Public Library, I began venturing into Adult Fiction. When we moved across the state, I dove even further into books, discovering Romance, Historical Fiction, Horror, and Westerns, in addition to the Biographies, Mystery, and Science Fiction I’d loved as a younger child.

I couldn’t wait to get out on my own, so I left home at the age of 17 and have been “adulting” ever since. I lived in Kansas City for several years, where I gave birth to my only child and also received a degree in Psychology from Rockhurst University. After graduating I spent nearly 22 years working as a civil servant for the federal government and raising my son. After launching my son into adulthood and exhausting my capacity for civil service, I decided to immerse myself full time in the stories that plead with me to bring them to life.

When I’m not writing, I serve in the royal court of King Crash the Tailthumper (“Crash” for short), my beloved dog whose internal dialogue I suspect is far more interesting than my own. Crash and I are based in Texas but are a bit nomadic at the moment. We spend most of our time traveling around in our RV visiting places that inspire me to write passionately, read avidly, tend to the land with care, and (occasionally) quilt with conviction.

G.V. Pearce is a mysterious being said to haunt the North York Moors, but is otherwise as yet unclassified by science.

Rumour has it that they can be summoned by leaving coffee in a faery circle at midnight.

G.V.’s books with Improbable Press include their Sherlockian mystery Ghost Story and Strangest Day So Far, an Eldritch Roads novel.

Zoe Ashwood writes sexy paranormal romance for women who believe in magic and true love.

While she’s always been a reader, Zoe’s writing used to be limited to diary scribbles and bad (really bad) teenage poetry. Then she participated in NaNoWriMo 2015 and never looked back.

Some 700,000 words later, she’s still in love with the art of making up stories – and making her characters fall in love. 

When she’s not writing, Zoe works as a literary translator. She’s happily married to her best friend and has two small boys who are as stubborn as they’re cute.

She’s always super happy to hear from fellow bookworms, so don’t hesitate to get in touch! Her newsletter is an especially great way to stay up-to-date with all the latest news (and get a free book).

She reads across genres, but some of her favorite authors include Molly Harper, Lauren Layne, Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy, Maggie Stiefvater, Victoria Schwab, Roald Dahl, Rainbow Rowell, J. R. R. Tolkien, Scott Lynch, Jill Shalvis, Juliet Marillier, and Patrick Rothfuss.

Wife, Mammy and Dental Hygienist by day, Lyndsey writes at any opportunity she gets. Her debut novel ‘The Seven Year Itch’ was inspired by the weekend she met her husband. She currently lives in the West of Ireland overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. She enjoys long walks, deep talks and the occasional G&T!

Lyndsey is an avid reader and an unashamed romantic, forever in search of the next Happily Ever After! Her second novel ‘The Midwife Crisis’ is now available to purchase on Amazon,and she is also currently working on a much requested sequel to ‘The Seven Year Itch’.

Alejandra Guibert has been writing since a young age. Following graduation as a literary translator, she worked as a freelancer, mainly for Spanish newspaper El País. Later she joined theatre company Arte Livre for an extensive European tour of three years with the play Olhares de Perfil (Sideways Glance) as co-writer. The play won a Special Fringe First Award in Edinburgh Festival and took part in international theatre festivals throughout Europe.

She moved to London in 1989 and produced and directed several documentaries with First Take whilst dedicating time to her writing.

She has written for both theatre and film and her works include both prose and poetry, always with a strong feminist voice.

In 1999, she specialized in subtitling and worked as a Latin American Spanish subtitler for more than ten years.

Since 2008, she has been working solely on her literary work. The speculative novel The Vatican Games is her fourth book of fiction and the first in English. She has been living and working in Brighton since 2009.