MIDNIGHT TIDE PUBLISHING
Our Authors
Elle Beaumont
Young Adult & New Adult & Adult
Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance
Elle Beaumont is a writer who loves creating vivid fantasy and science fiction worlds. She lives in southeastern Massachusetts with her husband and two children. When not writing or chasing around her children she can be seen crocheting, candle-making, and taking care of her animals. More than once she has proclaimed that coffee is lifeblood and it is how she refrains from becoming a zombie.
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Christis Christie
New Adult and Adult
Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
Christis Christie lives on the east coast of Canada, in Nova Scotia. She gets most excited about diving into a new fantasy world while writing, but also loves a good supernatural plot. Tiss, as she is affectionately called by her friends, enjoys being creative in any way she can, so if she’s not writing then she’s crocheting or she’s embroidering. Her favorite animal is the sloth, and her favorite retellings are anything Beauty and the Beast related.
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Lou Wilham
New Adult and Adult
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal, LGBT+
Born and raised in a small town near the Chesapeake Bay, Lou Wilham grew up on a steady diet of fiction, arts and crafts, and Old Bay. After years of absorbing everything there was of fiction, fantasy, and sci-fi she was left with a very serious writing/drawing habit. Leading to a need to tell stories through art and writing. These days when not daydreaming up new characters to write or draw, she can be found crocheting, making bookmarks, binge-watching whatever catches her eye, and chasing her Basset Hound named Sherlock.
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Candace Robinson
Young Adult & New Adult
Dark Fantasy
Candace Robinson spends her days consumed by words and hoping to one day find her own DeLorean time machine. Her life consists of avoiding migraines, admiring Bonsai trees, watching classic movies, and living with her husband and daughter in Texas—where it can be forty degrees one day and eighty the next.
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Amber R. Duell
New Adult
Dark Fantasy
Amber R. Duell was born and raised in a small town in Central New York. While it will always be home, she’s constantly moving with her husband and two sons as a military wife. She does her best writing in the middle of the night, surviving the daylight hours with massive amounts of caffeine. When not reading or writing, she enjoys snowboarding, embroidering, and snuggling with her cats.
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Kristin Jacques
New Adult
Fantasy
Kristin Jacques is speculative fiction author and content creator from New England. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Wells College. Her award-winning dark fantasy Marrow Charm was released from Parliament House Press in October 2019. In November 2019, Marrow Charm won the Fantasy Fiction category at American Bookfest. In 2020, she signed a four-book deal with City Owl Press for the paranormal series Midnight Guardians.
When not writing, she is juggling two rambunctious boys, spoiling her cats, and catching up on a massive TBR pile. She is currently working on projects full of magic, mystery, and delight.
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Jenny Hickman
Young Adult + New Adult
Fantasy & Romance
Jenny grew up in Oakland, Maryland and currently lives in County Tipperary, Ireland with her lilting husband and two tyrannical children. Her love of reading blossomed the summer after graduating high school, when she borrowed a paperback romance from her mother during the annual family beach vacation.
From that sunny day forward, she has been a lover of stories with Happily-Ever-Afters. In early 2008, she wrote her first novel, The Mirrors at Barnard Hall. But it was not until she moved to Nashville, TN and met her mentor, Billy Block, that she was encouraged to self-publish the work in 2012.
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Natalie Murray
Young Adult
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance
Natalie Murray is the author of Emmie and the Tudor King (March 2021), Emmie and the Tudor Queen (July 2021), and Emmie and the Tudor Throne (2022). Published by Midnight Tide Publishing, the YA time travel romance series follows a high school graduate to a reimagined Tudor England where she meets a doomed, but utterly dreamy, Tudor king who she must save from a dreadful fate. The Hearts & Crowns series has received acclaim from Foreword Reviews, InD’Tale Magazine, YA Books Central, and popular YA authors Brigid Kemmerer (A Curse So Dark and Lonely) and CJ Flood (Infinite Sky), among others. Emmie and the Tudor King was a finalist in the 14th Annual National Indie® Excellence Awards in the New Adult Fiction category. Natalie is currently penning her next angsty romance from beautiful Lake Macquarie on Australia’s east coast, where she lives with her husband, two children, and hangry miniature schnauzer, Otto.
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Nancy O'Toole
Adult
Fantasy, Retellings
Nancy O’Toole is an author of fairy tale retellings and superhero fiction. Her body of work includes The Red and Black Series, The Lady of the Watchtower, and the upcoming Twin Kingdoms series. She is the co-host of One for All: A My Hero Academia Podcast. When not writing, or working as a librarian in Central Maine, she spends her time reading, watching anime, and taking far too many pictures of her cat, Coraline.
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Gianne Rabena
Young Adult
Fantasy, Superhero, Science Fiction
Gianne is a writer of heroes and rom-com and an artist of character and comics from Lipa, Batangas, Philippines. Gianne has been interested in making her own stories with illustrations since her mother gave her little scrapbooks to fill in when she was in Gradeschool. She has never stopped writing and creating since. She is also a lover of all things superhero, from the compelling origins to the dramatic and tragic love between fellow caped crusaders. There are enough Batman-themed items on her bookshelf, but admittedly Robin and Batgirl have her heart. Her favorite book genres are Fantasy and Romcom and everything in between. She is also interested in sharing Philippine Mythology with the world.
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R.J. Garcia
Young Adult
Suspense
RJ is a wallflower, and mom of two smart kids. She earned her MSW and has worked with foster children. Writing has been her other great love. Yet growing up with dyslexia, she had a love/hate relationship with books. She loved the covers and the idea of escaping into them. Learning to read didn’t come easy. A lot of her classmates bullied her. Nevertheless, she wanted it enough and eventually became a proud bookworm.
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H.R. Truelove
Young Adult
Science-Fiction
H.R. Truelove lives with her family in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Her stories give classic ideas a unique twist, and she loves to read and write books that fall in between genres. Who says science and magic can’t be the same thing?
She developed a thirst for reading during her long bus rides to school, and has been writing poetry, song lyrics, and short stories most of her life.
When she’s not writing, H.R. enjoys collecting vinyl records, playing the drums, and watching reruns of 90s shows.
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Brindi Quinn
New Adult Fantasy Romance
Brindi Quinn is a fantasy/paranormal author from Minnesota specializing in world-building and romance. She is an advocate of quirky love and firmly believes that banter makes the heart grow fonder.
Since 2011, Quinn has written over a dozen young adult and new adult novels beginning with her debut epic fantasy series, Heart of Farellah. Her works often blur the lines between paranormal romance, science fiction, and fantasy, and her series have been hailed as unique, addictive reads by reviewers across platforms.
Quinn has a bachelor’s in general communication studies and is published through Never & Ever Publishing. She considers herself an avid fangirl, indulging heavily in video game lore and all things swoony.
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Stephanie Donohue
Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
As a child, Stephanie Donohue roamed Narnia with the Pevensie siblings and rode the Hogwarts Express with Harry and his friends. She never tired of discovering new and magical worlds through the pages of a book. And, when the yearning to explore still wasn’t satiated, Stephanie turned to writing. With a pen and a few sheets of paper, she learned to craft new worlds, and create vibrant characters to explore with.
That passion has never died. Stephanie still enjoys writing stories that take readers on exciting, and sometimes dangerous, adventures.
When she’s not writing, Stephanie can usually be found cuddling with her two cats, obsessively re-watching The Office, or rocking out to a Pound Fitness class.
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Heather Kindt
Young Adult Fantasy
Heather Kindt is the author of Not Quite Dorothy: A Modern Day Wizard of Oz Romantic Comedy and the New Adult Paranormal Romance, The Weaver Trilogy published through Parliament House Press, the YA Fantasy series, The Eternal Artifacts, and the soon to be released YA Fantasy series, the Vradian Academy.
Heather lives in the mountains of Colorado with her husband and two children. She enjoys hiking, skiing, teaching, reading and cheering for the best team on earth: the Denver Broncos. Traveling to new places with her husband is on her bucket list.
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Adina Chiles
Young Adult Fantasy
Adina Chiles is a fantasy author who loves taking her readers on whimsical adventures. She adores stories with endearing friendships, people who possess unique powers, and witty banter.
Adina lives in Northern California with her family. When she is not writing, she is buying books she knows she doesn’t need or experimenting with new baking recipes.
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Nicole Northwood
Adult
Paranormal Romance
NICOLE NORTHWOOD writes romance with a little spice: paranormal, contemporary, and fantasy stories for adults set in lush worlds that feature strong protagonists, deep emotions to dig into, and frequent appearances by supernatural beings. She has also previously published middle grade, young adult, and new adult fiction as NICOLE BEA. Nicole and her husband share their home in Eastern Canada with a collection of multi-colored cats, a cupboard stuffed with tea, and a lifetime’s worth of books.
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Alexis Menard
Fantasy Romance
Alexis Menard is a fantasy romance author and happily ever after enthusiast. She lives in Hammond, Louisiana with her husband, toddler, and two dogs. She graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University in nursing.
She enjoys long walks through the Renaissance Fair, reading smutty romance into the dark hours of the night, and wine nights with her "Finer Things Club." She hopes to enrich the lives of her readers with worlds they can both escape in and take with them long after the final chapter.
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Hailey Jade
Adult
Fantasy Romance
Hailey Jade has tried to quit writing, but the characters who live in her head will not stop yammering. She’s hoping that building them ink-and-paper homes will make them pipe down long enough for her to get some sleep. She likes creating fantasy worlds populated by complicated, morally-grey characters who try to resist their attraction to other complicated, morally-grey characters, but who inevitably fall in love, because everyone needs a Happily Ever After.
Hailey has completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Teaching at Flinders University, and spends her daylight hours trying to convince reluctant teenagers to love books. She lives in regional South Australia with her partner, bouncy baby boy, and feline overlord.
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Morgan Gauthier
Young Adult
Fantasy
Born to two book-loving parents, Morgan was raised on a healthy diet of The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Nancy Drew, and any fantasy book she could get her hands on. She started writing her own stories at eleven years old and hasn’t looked back.
Morgan Gauthier lives in East Tennessee with her husband and best friend, Brad, with their three children, Remi, Archer, and Roux (who are 4 years old and younger!). If five people wreaking havoc in the same house wasn’t enough, Morgan also has three dogs, Potter, Skye, and Bubba.
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Devon Thiele
Adult
Supernatural Fantasy
Devon Thiele's love of reading began early. As a child, she was commonly found reading books out loud to her horses. As a freshman in high school, she took her first foray into writing fantasy, which involved King Arthur fanfic and a notebook meant for class.
She currently resides in a small Iowa town with her dog and two cats. When she's not writing, Devon spends time with her family, binges true crime podcasts, and watches cooking shows.
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Whitney Spradling
Adult
Fantasy
Whitney Spradling is a full time Occupational Therapist and autism mama, who has had a dream to write and publish a novel since she was a little girl. She lives outside of Cincinnati with her husband, son, and cat. When she is not writing she can be found in her craft room making custom tumblers, or curled up with a good book and a cup of coffee (or a glass of wine).
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Jason Bustard
Adult, Young Adult
Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Jason grew up (mostly) in central California, surrounded by rolling hills, wheat fields and grapevines. He has been creating worlds for himself and his friends for decades, and is a gigantic nerd for everything sci-fi and fantasy related. He enjoys creating stories with diverse voices, intricate details, humor and humanity. He has a BAS in Web Development, which pays the bills, but his heart has always been with his AAS in Film and Television production. Telling stories, visual and written, is his passion.
He currently lives a stone's throw from Portland, OR, with his lovely wife, two crazy children, two very patient in-laws, and a neurotic bernadoodle. When he's not writing or reading, he enjoys role-playing and boardgames, video games, RVing with his family, video editing, and of course, cooking.
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