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Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Award-winning author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for nearly fifteen years. Her works include the urban fantasies, Yesterday's Dreams, its sequel, Tomorrow's Memories, and the upcoming novella, The Halfling's Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale, the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, and No Longer Dreams, all of which she co-edited, and contributions to numerous anthologies and collections, including Dark Furies, Breach the Hull, So It Begins, Space Pirates and the upcoming Barbarians at the Jumpgate, and New Blood.

Her non-fiction works include a chapter on writer's groups for Dragon Moon Press's The Complete Fantasy Writer's Guide: The Author's Grimoire, a chapter in their upcoming Elements of Fantasy: Magic, a chapter on self-promotions in Marietta Publishing's Profitable Publishing, and a standing column, If We'd Words Enough and Time, for the sadly defunct website, Fictionauts.

She is a member of The Garden State Horror Writers, the electronic publishing organization EPIC, and Broad Universe, a writer's organization focusing on promoting the works of women authors in the speculative genres.

Danielle lives somewhere in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail, mother-in-law Teresa, and three extremely spoiled cats.

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