Award-winning author, editor, and publisher Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked in publishing for over thirty-five years, been a published author for twenty-five years, and a publisher for eleven years. She is also a book and cover designer, having worked on hundreds of books in one capacity or another.
Her other superpower is crowdfunding, with approximately fifty successful campaigns under her belt for both her own projects and building and managing campaigns for others.
Her published works include eight novels,
Yesterday’s Dreams, Tomorrow’s Memories, Today’s Promise, The Halfling’s Court, The Redcaps’ Queen, Daire’s Devils, The Play of Light, and
Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo collections
Eternal Wanderings, A Legacy of Stars, Consigned to the Sea, Flash in the Can, Transcendence, The Kindly Ones, Dawns a New Day, The Fox’s Fire, Between Darkness and Light, Echoes of the Divine, and the non-fiction writers’ guides
The Literary Handyman, More Tips from the Handyman, LH: Build-A-Book Workshop, and
The Literary Handyman Library omnibus edition. She is the senior editor of the
Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series,
No Longer Dreams, Heroes of the Realm, Clockwork Chaos, Gaslight & Grimm, Grimm Machinations, A Cast of Crows, A Cry of Hounds, Other Aether, The Chaos Clock, Grease Monkeys, Side of Good/Side of Evil, After Punk, and
Footprints in the Stars. Her short stories are included in numerous other anthologies and collections. She is a former member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and a current member of the Horror Writers Association.
In addition to her literary acclaim, she makes homemade flavor-infused candied ginger and other confections under the brand of Ginger KICK! at literary conventions, on commission, and wholesale.
Danielle lives in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail and four extremely spoiled cats.
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