The Invitation:

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.

To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,

and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,

and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

                -- Wendell Berry, "To Know The Dark"

Author

Gothic Suspense/Dark Fantasy

Novel: Represented by Connor Smith, Hesperides Literary Agency

contemporary Gothic ghost tale

In Bardo House nothing ever sleeps - not really. Because to sleep would be to forget. And in Bardo House, nothing is forgotten ... ever.

JACQUELYN MITCHARD,

New York Times #1 bestselling author, THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN:

"I don’t read fantasy or horror, except the transcendent words of Hilary St. John Mandel and Shirley Jackson — but I made an exception for Maryn Boess’s BARDO HOUSE: A LOVE STORY, and I am grateful that I did. You will be too when you read this beautifully made and elegantly creepy story of a clutch of archetypes in the clutches of a house that … always dreams but never sleeps. Trust me. Most stories that purport to be chilling are actually not scary at all. But this is. This is. This is."

Novel: Represented by Connor Smith, Hesperides Literary Agency

upmarket Gothic suspense

What if the most maligned woman since the dawn of time stepped out of ancient myth and into the present, to claim her rightful place in the world at last?

Novel: In Development

dark psychological fantasy

Rosie's happy-hearted faith in the power of Disney magic opens a terrifying time-slip to Nazi Germany - and a generation of children all but lost to history

Novel: In Development

historical dark fantasy

A spirited but troubled young girl comes to suspect her estranged father is either a prophet executed as a political prisoner ... or the follower who betrayed him

Creative Collaboration - with Author/Illustrator Leo Gibson:

A rollicking romp through the multiverse featuring cultural icons Sponge Bob, Buzz Lightyear, Kang the Conqueror, and more - with a very meta surprise-twist ending

The author/illustrator at work

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