Below is an ever expanding list of authors the Scribbling Lion has directed us to recommend, with links to their web sites when available. Several have been featured in The Irregular Update newsletter.
*Specific recommendations are noted after each name.
Ackley McPhail, Danielle (Bad-Ass Fairy Tales series; anthologies; short stories)
Addison, Katherine (The Goblin Emperor; The Witness for the Dead; more)
Allen, Becky (Bound by Blood and Sand)
Anne Perry (William Monk series)
Atwater, Olivia (Regency Faerie Tales series)
Barnhill, Kelly (The Mostly True Story of Jack; Iron Hearted Violet; more)
Bolander, Brooke (The Only Harmless Great Thing; short stories)
Bryant, Samantha (Menopausal Superheroes series; short stories)
Bueller, Emily (Bread Science, Forest Bride)
Bujold, Louis McMaster (Penric series, Sharing Knife series, much more)
Carriger, Gail (Parasol Protectorate series; short stories)
Charles, KJ (The Rat-Catchers Daughter; The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal; Green Men series, more )
Coe, David B (Time’s Assassin, more)
Connolly, Sheila (Orchard Mystery series)
Doyle, Tom (American Craftsmen; Wizard of Macatawa; more)
Federle, Tim (The Great American Whatever; Better Nate than Ever)
Frohock, T (Los Nefilim series)
Ettrich, Sarah (Salbine’s Embrace)
Freeman, A. A. (The Worth of Hair)
Goddard, Victoria (Hands of the Emperor; The Tower at the End of the World; more)
Hardinge, Frances (A Face Like Glass; The Lie Tree; Skinful of Shadows; more)
Harris, Joanne M.(The Testament of Loki)
Hartness, John (Quincy Harker series, Bubba the Monster Hunter series, more)
Ishiguro, Kazuo (Klara and the Sun)
Jansson, Tove (Everything Moomin, The Summer Book)
Kennedy, Darin (link to Falstaff Books page for The Mussorgsky Riddle) (Mussorgsky Riddle; Tchaikovsky Finale)
Khaw, Cassandra (Rupert Wong; Hammers on Bone; more)
Killjoy, Margaret (Danielle Cain series; short work)
Kimberling, Nicole (Grilled Cheese and Goblins)
Kingfisher, T (aka Ursula Vernon) (EVERYTHING.)
Kurtz, Nicole (Cybil Lewis series, more)
Lancaster, A.J. (Lord of Stariel series)
Lowell, Nathan (The Wizard’s Butler)
Lyons, Jenn (The Ruin of Kings)
Mardoll, Ana (No Man of Woman Born)
Martin, Gail Z (Deadly Curiosities series; more)
McGuire, Seanan (Almost everything)
Milan, Courtney (Ms Martin’s Incomparable Adventure; The Governess Affair; more)
Monroe, Jack (various eating-for-pennies style cookbooks)
Morris Jr., Edward (Crooked Man, short works)
Norfolk, Allison (author page on Amazon) (Everything)
Novik, Naomi (Spinning SIlver; Uprooted; Temeraire series; more)
Olson, Quenby (Miss Percy’s Travel Guide to Dragons series)
Oluo, Ijeoma (So You Want to Talk About Race)
Painter, Sarah (The Night Raven; The Silver Mark)
Pinsker, Sarah (Sooner or Later, Everything Falls Into the Sea; more)
Polk, C.L. (Witchmark)
Pratchett, Terry (EVERYTHING)
Pritchett, Angela (The Unofficial Dr Who Cookbooks, 1&2)
Risen, Alexandra (Unearthed)
Savage, Stephen (Fan to Pro; more)
Sebastian, Cat (Hither Page, London Highwaymen series, more)
Sim, Tara (Timekeeper series)
Schwab, V,E. (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)
Thich Nhat Hanh (No Mud, No Lotus; Fear; Anger; more)
Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth (The Dark Fantastic)
Thomas, Sherry (The Lady Sherlock series)
Valente, Catherine M. (Almost everything)
Vernon, Ursula (Dragonbreath series; more)
Wade, Angela P (Edward Red Mage series)
Wells, Martha (Murderbot series)
Whitley, Jeremy (Raven Pirate Princess graphic novels)
Wold, Allen (A Closet For A Dragon, Star God)