Check out The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck fantasy adventure book series:

Here is what they are saying:

--Move over Harry Potter, Hobart Hucklebuck is the new kid in the world of magic.

--Hobart's misadventures are winners.

--So much more than expected and very satisfying.

--Adorable, funny, and is a great tale of friendship and loyalty.

--My boys loved it and laughed a lot while I was reading it.

--My 4 year-old-asked would our bread butter itself? When I said no, he said why not!!!

--A fun book for both adults and children.

--If you’re a fan of MG books then I highly recommend this one.

--This one is absolutely worth picking up.

Comparable authors include Ridley Pearson, Liz Braswell, Jen Calonita, Serena Valentino, Amicus Arcane, Rick Riordan, C. S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle and J. K. Rowling.

Stan Swanson is a Bram Stoker Award finalist and author of several books including Horror High School: Return of the Loving Dead (co-written with Araminta Star Matthews), Wind Up Hearts (a romance novella with a hint of steampunk), Forever Zombie (a collection of short stories), Write of the Living Dead (a highly-praised writing guide written with Araminta Star Matthews and Rachel Lee) and Return of the Scream Queen (co-authored with Michael McCarty and Linnea Quigley).

Several more books in the Hobart Hucklebuck series are in the works including Pandemonium in Pennywhistle, Wacky Weather and Boneyard Bay.

(Art by Erik Wilson) Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of seven books: three novels—Disintegration and Breaker (Penguin Random House Alibi), as well as Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications); three short story collections—Staring into the Abyss (Kraken Press), Herniated Roots (Snubnose Press), and Tribulations (Cemetery Dance); and one novella in The Soul Standard (Dzanc Books). With over 150 stories published, his credits include The Best Horror of the Year (Volume Eleven), Cemetery Dance (twice), Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders (Bram Stoker winner), PANK, storySouth, Gargoyle, Weird Fiction Review, Midwestern Gothic, Shallow Creek, The Seven Deadliest, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad (numbers 2-4), PRISMS, Pantheon, and Shivers VI (with Stephen King and Peter Straub). He has won contests at ChiZine and One Buck Horror, has received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and has been long-listed for Best Horror of the Year six times. He was also the editor of four anthologies: The New Black and Exigencies (Dark House Press), The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers (Black Lawrence Press) and Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press) with Chuck Palahniuk. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Thriller awards. In his spare time he is a columnist at Lit Reactor. He was the Editor-in-Chief at Dark House Press and Gamut Magazine. His agent is Paula Munier at Talcott Notch. For more information visit www.whatdoesnotkillme.com.

Kevin David Anderson’s debut novel the geeky, cult zombie classic, Night of the Living Trekkies, from Quirk Books, the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is a funny, offbeat Zombie novel that explores the pop culture carnage that ensues when the undead crash a Star Trek convention. Publishers Weekly gave Night of the Living Trekkies a starred review and the Washington Post listed it as one of the top five Zombie novels of 2010.

Night of the Living Trekkies and Anderson’s follow-up, Night of the ZomBEEs were required reading in college courses, most notably a class designed for incoming freshmen, How to Survive Your Freshman Year by Studying the Zombie Apocalypse, at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania.

Anderson’s short stories have appeared in almost a hundred publications, from anthologies and magazines to podcasts and radio dramas. His work has appeared in multiple languages and on every continent, excluding Antarctica - mostly because penguins and polar bears don’t read. Anderson was the first American to be published in the award-winning South African Horror Magazine, Something Wicked. He has contributed to many award-worthy publications including the British Fantasy Award-winning Magazine Murky Depths, and the Bram Stoker nominated anthology, The Beauty of Death from Independent Legions Publishing. Many of Anderson’s stories have been turned into audio productions with voice talents like Jason Hill, Rish Outfield, and Mur Lafferty, on Parsec Award-winning podcasts like Pseudopod, The Drabblecast, The Dunesteef and on the very popular Simply Scary Podcast and the No Sleep Podcast.

When not writing horror, comedy, or horror-comedy, Anderson likes spending time at the beach with his family, attending horror conventions and book festivals, and writing and telling bad, corny, nerdy jokes. Dad jokes with a geeky twist are his specialty and with the help of his son, he published The Geektastic Joke Book for Kids under the pseudonym, Giggles A. Lott and Nee Slapper. Giggles & Slapper have followed with STAR WARS: The Jokes Awaken, and JURASSIC JOKES: A Book 65 Million Years in the Making. STAR WARS: The Jokes AWAKEN was named one of the top 10 Star Wars gifts for kids by Best Deals For Kids (dot) com in 2020.

Anderson was born in Indiana, and currently lives and writes speculative fiction in Southern California. Before becoming a writer and active member of the HWA (Horror Writers Association), Anderson earned a B. A. in Mass Communication (TCOM) with a focus on Media Production from CSUF (Fresno State). He worked as a marketing professional for more than a decade, during which he managed award-winning campaigns for both television and radio. Currently, he is doing something much more rewarding. Anderson is a high school special education teacher.

Kenneth W. Cain is an author of horror and dark fiction, and a Splatterpunk Award nominated freelance editor. He is also the publisher and editor-in-chief at Crystal Lake: Torrid Waters. Cain is an Active member of the HWA and a Full member of the SFWA. To date, he has had over one hundred short stories and thirteen novels/novellas, as well as a handful each of nonfiction pieces, books for children, and poems released by many great publishers such as Crystal Lake Publishing, JournalStone, and Cemetery Gates Media. He has also edited ten anthologies, with a new one coming in 2024. Cain suffers from chronic pain, and as such, likes to keep busy. He lives in Chester County PA with his family and two furbabies, Butterbean and Bodhi. His full publishing history is available on his website.

A lifelong fan of all things Horror and one of 3 winners of the Cemetery Dance Amatuer Writer's Contest, C.W. LaSart made her publishing debut in Dark Moon Digest Issue 1 in late 2010. She has since been published multiple times by Dark Moon Books as well as Cemetery Dance Publications, Eirelander Press, Evil Jester Press, Angelic Knight Press and more. Her premiere horror collection, AD NAUSEAM 13 Tales of Extreme Horror, was released by Dark Moon Books in March of 2012. Find more at CWLaSart.com

Tara Fox Hall’s writing credits include nonfiction, erotica, horror, suspense, action-adventure, children’s stories, and contemporary and historical paranormal romance. She is the author of the paranormal fantasy Lash series, the transgender contemporary erotic Grow A Pair series, the paranormal romantic suspense Unhallowed Love series and the paranormal romantic drama Promise Me series. Tara divides her free time unequally between writing novels and short stories, chainsawing firewood, caring for stray animals, sewing cat and dog beds for donation to animal shelters, and target practice. All of her published children’s stories to date are free reads on www.childrens-stories.net. A current list of her commentary on Animal Science articles can be viewed at https://animalstudiesrepository.org/

Max Booth III is a writer, publisher, editor, podcaster, and indie bookstore owner. They are the author of numerous works, including I Believe in Mister Bones, Abnormal Statistics, Maggots Screaming!, Touch the Night, and many others too spooky to name here. Their novella, We Need to Do Something, was adapted into a feature film from their own screenplay and distributed by IFC Midnight in 2021 after debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival. They co-run Ghoulish Books, a publisher/bookstore hybrid, with their wife Lori Michelle Booth. Together, the two of them also co-founded the annual Ghoulish Book Festival. Additionally, Max serves as the head editor and publisher of Ghoulish Tales. Born and raised in Northwest Indiana, they now live in San Antonio, TX.

Nicky has been published by Harper Collins, Canelo/ Hera, Simon & Schuster, Hachette and more. She co hosts a true crime meets thriller fiction podcast called The Red Rabbit Hole, and also runs a local writers' group to help new and established writers find their way in a turbulent publishing industry.

About her writing, Nicky says, ‘Entertaining readers is the best feeling in the world. Times are tough at the moment, so to be able to transport readers into someone else’s life and take them on a twisty journey makes all the time and effort I put into my books worthwhile.’

Nicky appreciates every review she receives and thanks all her readers in advance for taking the time to put fingers to keyboard and share their thoughts with other readers.

Nicky Peacock also writes as N V Peacock

Araminta Star Matthews is an academic with scholarly publications in instructional design for artists and integration of AI in education, an artist and writer, an art educator, a professor of both graduate and undergraduate courses in a variety of subjects, and a senior eLearning designer. Her Renaissance background is a perfect blend for her genre, wellness, and academic works alike. Formerly the Associate Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies at Maine College of Art and Design, she is presently serving in multiple roles in higher education leadership across a variety of institutions. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (a terminal degree in Fine Arts) as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the same discipline with minors in French and Gender Studies. She also holds certificates in instructional design, death doula services, life coaching, art-coaching, digital curation, career development facilitation, and teaching. In addition to writing, she has worked on countless online courses for both the private and public sector, developing and supporting the creation of instructional content for higher education courses. She also teaches Creative Writing, Introduction to Ethics, and Information Literacy for the University of Maine at Presque Isle online, Psychology for Kennebec Valley Community College, Graduate classes in Instructional Design and Project Management for the University of Maine and Methods of Teaching Art in the K-12 Classroom for the Maine Educator Consortium in collaboration with SNHU.

She began her writing career in the horror genre, writing young adult, supernatural fiction. While this genre still holds a place in her heart, she is moving toward more practical content, such as holistic wellness and personal development guides. She has coauthored with Stan Swanson and Dr. Rachel Lee to produce the alternative writing instructional guide, Write of the Living Dead, and she has recently worked with The Lune Innate to produce a crystal self-care and wellness book. Her most recent work focuses on applying folklore and myths of international goddesses to the work of self-healing and recovery, as well as genre works in the fields of supernatural romantic-mystery and historical fiction-mystery.

Because Araminta can't bring herself to sit still even for a moment, she spends the bulk of her time with her favorite human being (her child and kindred spirit ginger-mini) and the rest of her spare time (when she is not teaching or writing or editing) playing MMORPG's, reading (mostly classics), making art, serving nonprofits, and inventing. She is also a lifelong learner and routinely takes courses in disciplines that interest her, including priestess services, death doula services, art coaching, life coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, yoga teaching, crystal healing certification, Reiki, web development, animation, and digital curation.

I am the editor-in-chief for Dark Moon Digest as well as the co-owner of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. I am the single mother of two children and spend a majority of the time trying to keep my 11 year old from hitting the dog in the face. During my spare time (I really have some?) I dabble in graphic art and use that knowledge to make business cards. logos and flyers for people who need something more creative than the norm. I like to write short stories and have been published in several anthologies, including the Bram Stoker nominated Slices of Flesh and Qualia Nous.

My author website, which is very infrequently updated is www.lorimichelleauthor.com. My professional website is www.TheAuthorsAlley.com. I can typically be found roaming the wall of Facebook.