The Seers Table!

Linda Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community

May is Creative Beginnings month. Why not begin with checking out work by the following creators!

Ace Antonio-Hall recommends:

Dicey Grenor, the author of the Narcoleptic Vampire Series, explores dark, sexy stories of vampires and werewolves with her tough-as-nails protagonist, Sleepy Holly—much in the vein of Laurell K. Hamilton’s vampire/zombie novels featuring her Anita Blake character and sensual themes.

The stories center around the settings of supernatural fetish clubs. The first book in her series has a 4.4 star rating on Amazon with 60 reviews.

Recommended Work: Narcoleptic Vampire Series.

Contact: http://www.diceygrenorbooks.com/.

Janet Holden recommends:

Sara Crowe was born in Cornwall and raised all over England by her restless parents. She taught cinema and photography studies until 2012, when she and her partner bought a van and spent the next eighteen months traveling around the British Isles. She currently lives in a tumbledown cottage in Lincolnshire. Bone Jack, which has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal and the Branford Boase Award, is her first novel.

You can follow her on Twitter @dark fell.

About Sara Crowe’s book, Bone Jack: “Dark, magical, and mysterious, Bone Jack captured me and carried me away.”  — Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me and Goodbye Stranger.

Times have been tough for Ash lately, and all he wants is for everything to go back to the way it used to be. Back before drought ruined the land and disease killed off the livestock. Before Ash’s father went off to war and returned carrying psychological scars. Before his best friend Mark started acting strangely. As Ash trains for his town’s annual Stag Chase—a race rooted in violent, ancient lore—he’s certain that if he can win and make his father proud, life will return to normal. But the line between reality and illusion is rapidly blurring, and the past has a way of threatening the present. When a run in the mountains brings Ash face-to-face with Bone Jack—a figure that guards the boundary between the living world and the dead—everything changes once more. As dark energies take root and the world as he knows it is upended, it’s up to Ash to restore things to their proper order and literally run for his life.

Kate Maruyama recommends:

Walidah Imarisha is editor of Another World Is Possible: Conversations in a Time of Terror, a collection of personal reflections on the 9/11 attacks. She is also co-editor, with Adrienne Maree Brown, of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements, named after the legendary science fiction writer Octavia Butler.

Imarisha is the author of the poetry collection, Scars/Stars (Drapetomedia, 2013), and the forthcoming nonfiction book focused on criminal justice issues, Angels with Dirty Faces: Dreaming Beyond Bars. Her words have been featured in Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics of Hip Hop; Letters From Young Activists; Daddy, Can I Tell You Something; Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution; The Quotable Rebel; Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Butler; Joe Strummer, Punk Rock Warlord; Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R Delaney; and Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency.

Lauren Candia recommends:

Zoraida Córdova is the author of The Vicious Deep trilogy, the On the Verge series, and Labyrinth Lost. She loves black coffee, snark, and still believes in magic. She is a New Yorker at heart and is currently working on her next novel.

She often wishes her life were a cross between BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and SEX AND THE CITY. She is a contributing writer to Latinos in Kid Lit because #WeNeedDiverseBooks.

She has always loved stories about magic and impossible worlds. Other things she loves: Harry Potter FOREVER. She is always either sorted into Ravenclaw or Slytherin, so instead she pledges to the mermaids of the Black Lake. Moon Prism Power. Five by five. Orlando Bloom’s Face. Daughter of Poseidon. I love you/I know.

Recommended Reading: Labyrinth Lost.

“Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives.

I fall to my knees. Shattered glass, melted candles and the outline of scorched feathers are all that surround me. Every single person who was in my house—my entire family—is gone.”

Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation … and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she can’t trust. A boy whose intentions are as dark as the strange markings on his skin.

The only way to get her family back is to travel with Nova to Los Lagos, a land in-between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland …

Beautiful Creatures meets Daughter of Smoke and Bone with an infusion of Latin American tradition in this highly original fantasy adventure.

Linda Addison recommends:

Lori Titus is a Californian with an affinity for dark fiction. Her work explores mysticism and reality, treading the blurred line between man and monster. She thrives on coffee and daydreams when she isn’t writing or plotting out her next story.

Her latest releases are The Art of Shadows (The Marradith Ryder Series, Book 2), and Blood Relations, a paranormal tale of religious fanaticism and murder in a small town.

Her work includes The Bell House, Hunting in Closed Spaces (The Marradith Ryder Series, Part 1), The Moon Goddess, and Marradith, Darkly. Short works include “Lazarus,” “Green Water Lullaby,” and “Hailey’s Shadow.”

She is also the co-author of two post-apocalyptic books with horror alum, Crystal Connor, under the pen name Connor Titus: The Guardians of Man and The End is Now.

You can keep up with Titus through her blog: https://loribeth215.wordpress.com