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Courtney Maguire

LGBTQ Contemporary/Dark Contemporary Romance and LGBTQ Historical Dark Paranormal Romance

"These conflicting emotions, conflating roles, saturate the pages of Bloodlaced. Whether it is a struggle with gender identity, a position in the master-servant relationship, or even the hierarchy among slaves, the story explores these challenges with as much realism as a memoir--but with vampires!" - Indies Today

Courtney Maguire is a University of Texas graduate from Corpus Christi, Texas, whose voracious appetite for music meant spending vast amounts of her young adult life in dark, divey venues, nursing a love for the sublimely weird. A self-proclaimed fangirl with a press pass, she combined her love of music and writing as the primary contributor for Japanese music and culture blog, Project: Lixx, interviewing Japanese rock and roll icons and providing live event coverage for appearances across the country. She's been Published with Nine Star Press and City Owl Press.
Blood Bound, book three of the Youkai Bloodlines series, releases Spring 2022 with City Owl Press.
You can find her on social media or at www.courtneymaguirewrites.com

A great read for those who love urban fantasy. - InD'tale Magazine (See full review here.)

Janet Walden-West lives in the Southeast with a pack of show dogs, a couple of kids, and a husband who didn’t read the fine print. A member of the East Tennessee Creative Writers Alliance, she is also a founding member of The Million Words craft blog. She pens inclusive Contemporary Romance and Urban Fantasy. As a two-time Pitch Wars alum turned Pitch Wars 2019 Mentor, Sherrilyn Kenyon scholarship recipient, and Golden Heart® finalist, she believes in paying it forward by supporting burgeoning Southern writers.
She is represented by Eva Scalzo of Speilburg Literary Agency.

Janet Walden-West

Inclusive Contemporary Romance/Urban Fantasy