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ERA27 AUTHOR LINEUP
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Discover the authors joining us for a celebration of fantasy and romance.
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B. Nova Kardinalis
B. Nova Kardinalis is an urban dark fantasy writer who balances darkly magical storytelling with a handful of day jobs and a healthy dose of iced vanilla lattes – yes, even in winter. Nova shares her creative world (and naps) with Kasper, her feline companion.
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Charlize K. Kelly
Charlize K. Kelly writes dark paranormal romance featuring unorthodox characters and deliciously corrupt adventures. When she’s not creating fictional worlds, she can be found reading, spending time with her dog Satan, and dreaming of bringing eighties glam rock back.
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Demi Clorissa
Demi Clorissa is a proud Wiradjuri woman, who writes heart breaking dark romantic fantasy. You will find body diverse FMCs, men who YEARN, and emotional damage within the pages of her novels. When not writing, you'll find her at the cinema, reading BL, or binging her next favourite fantasy novel.
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E.J. Campbell
E.J. Campbell is an Aussie who lives in Melbourne, loves her caffeine and books, and spends most of her time in Romancelandia. She writes dark, irreverent why choose romance; stories filled with red flag harems, all of the heat, and none of the hard choices.
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Elsie Hawthorne
Elsie writes what she loves; soft sapphic romances filled with obsession and yearning, set in queernormative dark fantasy worlds. Her writing is steeped in gothic atmosphere, featuring morally grey nightmare love interests and the intense, often cursed objects of their affections.
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G.R. Thomas
GR Thomas is a Melbourne based author of urban fantasy, gothic, folk and cosmic horror. Bringing her nightmares and dreamscapes to life with relatable but complex characters, she likes to delight and fright her readers. Addicted to good coffee, she weaves her stories on her farm surrounded by many fur babies.
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Harley Jane Rose
Harley Jane Rose is a fantasy author exploring the light and darkness of the human condition through fantasy romance and dark fantasy. Inspired by world history, folklore and cultures, she creates stories designed to make readers laugh, cry, hope and swoon.
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Isabelle MacDowall
Isabelle MacDowall is a Melbourne-based writer whose debut novel, Unravelled, explores stolen memories, forbidden devotion, and the dangerous pull between duty and desire. When she’s not escaping into imaginary realms, she runs on caffeine and attempts to resist her two persuasive sausage dogs.
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Jonathan Maloney
Jonathan Maloney is an Australian author who writes grim murder mysteries with a monster and fae twist. His stories explore crime, found family, tragedy and triumph against the backdrop of Victorian London.
Pre-orders coming soonJL Skye
JL Skye is an Australian indie author who writes emotional rollercoasters that tear your heart out before putting it back together again. Her stories span contemporary sports romance, romantic suspense and queer romance, with a strong focus on mental health awareness and no third-act breakups.
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Lauren M Clark
Lauren M Clark is an Australian indie author from Sydney whose debut novel, Nights of Noctis, brings together her love of dark, spooky stories and swoon-worthy villains. Her fantasy world blends supernatural and gothic elements with an urban twist.
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Laura Catherine
Laura Catherine is an indie fantasy author specialising in cosy fantasy and YA fantasy with queer representation. Based in Melbourne, they balance writing with raising two children, camping outdoors, and curling up with their cats and a good book.
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Leila Thorne
Leila Thorne is a dark romance author who writes stories with wide-open-door spice and guaranteed happy endings. Expect plenty of heat, intense romance, and a happily-ever-after worth chasing.
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Lex Logan
Lex Logan is a queer and neuro-spicy author from Queensland writing a sweet and spicy monster romance series of interconnected standalones. When she's not imagining up more stories than she can physically write, she is working in her online indie romance bookstore - Tales & Tomes, or rotting in bed with a book.
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M.L. Jewell
M.L. Jewell is an Australian author of dark adult urban fantasy romance, crafting stories filled with haunting monsters, mythical beasts and tension-filled romance. Based in Brisbane, her debut novel Rise of the Witches combines flesh-eating creatures, buried secrets and elemental magic.
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Mandi Kontos
Mandi Kontos is a Melbourne-based urban fantasy writer who loves blending the supernatural with the mundane and turning mythology on its head. She is also a writing mindset mentor, podcast host, and author of The Nexus Series, including Faded Fragments and Fractured Pieces.
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Matt Mememaro
Matt is a fantasy, romantasy and romance author coming to you hot out of Brisbane, Australia. He excels in creating worlds and characters that leave you begging for more.
Pre-orders coming soonRebekah Bertram
Rebekah is a Melbourne based fantasy and romance author. Tropes that she included without fail in her books are slow burn, found family and sweetness without the spice.
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Roxy Leigh is an Australian author who writes sweet and spicy omegaverse and fantasy, with the occasional dip into darker stories. When she’s not lost in a fantasy world, she enjoys survival RPGs, crafting, baking with her daughters, and watching far too much reality TV.
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Shaina Veronica
Shaina Veronica is a Filipino-Australian author and certified hopeless romantic who brings her background in film production and love of visual storytelling to her writing. Her young adult romantic comedies celebrate Filipino storytelling, comfort characters, cosy places and unforgettable fictional crushes.
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Sommer-Lee Deaves
Sommer-Lee Deaves is a fantasy and romance author and mother of four who has always used stories as a portal into new worlds. When she’s not writing, she’s dancing, being a dance mum, enjoying a girls’ night, or planning how she’d survive the zombie apocalypse.
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TF Johnson
TF Johnson is the award-winning author of The Sharp Edge of Fate and its sequels, writing gaslamp fantasy filled with fierce women, strong friendships and green-flag book boyfriends. When she’s not writing, she can be found buying books, enjoying coffee and wine, or cuddling with her English Bulldog, Ellie.
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Thea Hawthorne
Thea Hawthorne is an artist and an author, she creates myth-steeped fantasy worlds full of found family, queernormative society, charming banter, and romance that is both heart-aching and heart-warming.
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