We have finalized our impressive list of authors to be featured in our middle grade horror anthology project, FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. This collection of 13 tales, from 13 different authors, will knock the stockings off your fireplace this Christmas season. FRIGHT is set to launch in November. Be sure to watch for the cover reveal soon!
And so we give you the FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS anthology author roster (authors listed in no particular order):
Richard
Ankers
Richard is a former authonomy.com gold
medalist. He has featured in Third Flatiron Publishing’s ‘The Time It Happened’
anthology and also in The New Accelerator digital imprint. Richard lives for
writing and his love of the great outdoors.
Jackie
Horsfall
Jackie Horsfall is the author of 20 books
and hundreds of short stories and articles. She lives deep in the woods of
upstate New York, awaiting a Bigfoot sighting.
Boyd
Reynolds
Boyd Reynolds is a freelance writer and
educator living in Vancouver, Canada. He has published short stories for
children, teenagers and adults. His other published works include newspaper
articles, educational non-fiction pieces and pop culture commentary. Boyd holds
a Master of Arts in Children’s Literature and enjoys all things scary.
Lea
Storry
Lea Storry (her real name) is a writer who
owns a memoir writing business. She loves creating fiction too and has a kids’
book out about a raven learning to fly. Besides being a writer, Lea’s a pilot
and a traveller who lives with her husband in Alberta, Canada.
Ally
Mathews
Ally lives in Texas with her husband, three
kids, four dogs, a cat, a rabbit, and assorted reptiles. She used to be a
children’s librarian, but now spends her time writing middle grade and young
adult books, and is particularly fond of fairy tale retellings.
Laura
Pauling
Laura Pauling writes about spies, murder,
and mystery. She’s the author of the young adult Circle of Spies Series, the
Prom Impossible Series, and the Holly Hart Cozy Mysteries for adults. She
writes to entertain…and work in her jammies and slippers.
Ty Drago
Ty Drago is the author of several published novels, including the critically acclaimed YA series, THE UNDERTAKERS, which has been adapted for a feature film. His short fiction and articles have appeared in numerous magazines, e-zines, and anthologies, including WRITERS DIGEST. He and his wife Helene live in New Jersey.
Jessica
Bayliss
Jessica Bayliss's love for reading goes all
the way back to the 6th grade book bin, and it's never faded. She writes across
genres and age groups, but Jessica's dearest dream is to dazzle the hearts of
young readers.
Judith
Graves
Judith Graves loves tragic romance,
werewolves, vampires, magic and all things a bit creepy. A firm believer that
teen fiction can be action-packed, snarky and yet hit all the right emotional
notes, Judith writes stories with attitude. She lives in northern Alberta and when
she’s not writing, she works in a school library.
Andrea
Stanet
A freelance writer from upstate New York,
Andrea Stanet has been published online and in print since the late 90s. While
she typically writes contemporary and urban fantasy, her reading interests span
all genres. Other published middle grade work includes “Nelita and the Shadow”
in the anthology Wild Cards.
Patrick
Hueller
Patrick Hueller is the author of
several scary YA and middle grade books, including Wolf
High, The Wish, and (under the pen name Paul Hoblin) Foul.
Dax
Varley
Dax Varley writes the kinds of stories
and books she wishes were around when she was a kid. She’s the author
of Sleepy Hollow, Return to Sleepy Hollow, Bleed,
and Nightmare House. Dax enjoys reading and writing horror and loves all
the eerie bumps in the night.
Medeia
Sharif
Medeia Sharif was born in New York City and
now lives in Miami. She received her master’s degree in psychology from Florida
Atlantic University. Published through various presses, she writes middle grade
and young adult short stories and novels. In addition to being a writer, she’s
a public school teacher.
We recently updated our middle grade line's name from FROLIC to SEEK because we noticed our books' protagonists don't do a lot of frolicking--but they certainly seek out adventure and answers.
Kelly Hashway has been carefully editing books for Leap for more than a year and has been an invaluable member of our freelance staff. So it was a tremendous stroke of luck that we could bring her aboard to play a larger role.
