Our Authors
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Ann Val
Author of an upcoming MG project.
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​Ann Val lives in the heart of saguaro country where she works as a freelance journalist & writes fiction/nonfiction stories & dabbles in poetry. She’s a wife, mother, travel-enthusiast, hiker, and amateur gardener. Follow her @thefreerangewriter on Instagram.
Anne J. Hill
Author of Thorn Tower, Bearers of Hope, The Forbidden Library, and is in every single Twenty Hills anthology to date.
Anne J. Hill is an author who enjoys writing fantasy for all ages. Her love of words has also led to her career as an editor and content writer. She runs Twenty Hills Publishing with the help of her circus-performing best friend, Lara E. Madden. She spends her days dreaming up fantastical realms, researching ways to get away with murder…for book research, arguing over commas at the kitchen table, talking out loud to the characters in her head while also promising her housemate that she isn't, in fact, crazy, and rearranging her personal library, which has been affectionately dubbed the “Book Dungeon.”
Thorn Tower is projected to publish the end of 2024, or early 2025.
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AudraKate Gonzalez
Author of The Adventures of Howard and Flop and is in several Twenty Hills anthologies.
AudraKate Gonzalez started writing horror stories when she ran out of Goosebumps books to read as a child. Her love for horror grew and now she has a BA in Creative Writing and is working on her MFA. Her YA/Horror Series, This is Noir, is available now wherever you buy your books. She lives in Ohio with her handsome husband, and her adorable furry bad boys, Zero and Scrappy Doo. When AudraKate isn't writing, you can find her reading, watching scary movies or sleeping.
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Beka Gremikova
Author of an upcoming NA project and is in several Twenty Hills anthologies.
Beka Gremikova writes folkloric fantasy from her little nook in the Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada. When she's not trekking across the globe, she plays video games, dabbles in art, or curls up in a cozy corner with a mystery novel. Her work can be found in various anthologies—including Tales From the Tower, Equinox & Solstice, Fantasea, and Tide & Scale—and her indie debut, The Other Cinderella, is now available in ebook and paperback from Amazon. Her first full-length book, a collection of fantasy and sci-fi tales entitled Unexpected Encounters of a Draconic Kind and Other Stories, will release with SnowRidge Press in Fall 2023. To keep up with all her writing mayhem, you can sign up for her newsletter at bekagremikova.com, follow her on Instagram @beka.gremikova, or join her reader group, "Beka's Books," on Facebook.
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Brooke J. Katz
Author of an upcoming NA project and is in several Twenty Hills anthologies.
Brooke J. Katz is a stay at home/homeschooling mom by day and author/poet by night. Jesus and Lyons tea fuel her. Writing and painting have been a way for her to step into another world and for her work to be an outlet for someone else to find encouragement, or just some time to themselves being lost in a story. She is known to always have a book on her and dropping what she's doing to pray. You can find her on IG/Goodreads @Brookejkatz or her website https://brookejkatz.wixsite.com/brookejkatz
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Hannah Carter
Author of Saltwater Souls and is in every single Twenty Hills anthology to date.
Hannah Carter is just a girl who still wakes up every day hoping to figure out she’s secretly a mermaid. Along with Saltwater Souls, Hannah has also written The Atlantis Trilogy (published through SnowRidge Press), which contains even more mermaids, magic, and murder. Her short stories and award-winning flash fiction pieces have been published in various anthologies, including all of Twenty Hills’s. She has also won Editor’s Choice Award from Havok Publishing twice, for her pieces in the Prismatic and World Tour anthologies. In 2022, her flash fiction piece, “A Home for Nova,” won a Realm Award. Hannah also won a competition with her short story, “Lara.” In addition to fiction, she also has had over a dozen devotionals published in various magazines, as well as six devotions published in Finding God in Anime. In her spare time, she’s probably either cuddling her cats, drinking tea, reading, or practicing for her imaginary Broadway debut. Connect with her on Instagram at @mermaidhannahwrites.
Kayla E. Green
Author of Project Scale and is in several Twenty Hills anthologies.
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Kayla E. Green is an award-winning author and poet who writes to remind others—and herself—that light always prevails over darkness. When she isn’t writing, reading, or spending time with her family, she loves singing loudly and off-key to KLove Radio and pretending she’s a unicorn. Kayla has stories, poems, and devotionals featured in various anthologies and magazines. Additionally, she has several flash fiction stories available online through Havok Publishing. Learn more and connect with Kayla at theunicornwriter.com and on Instagram @theunicornwriter93.
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Title reveal for Project Scale coming soon! Publishing in November.
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Lena Karynn Tesla
Author of upcoming YA project.
Lena Karynn Tesla has a passion for the written word, especially that which takes place in distant and fantastical worlds. She writes books in several speculative fiction sub-genres, including fantasy, dystopian, and science fiction. When she is not writing, she can be found pouring magic elixirs of caffeine for the masses, or exploring the woods with her two prowling cats.
Maseeha Seedat
Author of upcoming NA project and is in several Twenty Hills anthologies.
Born and raised in South Africa, Maseeha Seedat takes inspiration for her stories from the most memorable moments of her life. She’s a full-time student and a part-time writer, with her first novel, The Littlest Voices, published a year after her publishing debut with Twenty Hills. Her writing ranges from the fun and whimsical to the dark and serious, most of the time settling somewhere in the middle. When she’s not writing, Maseeha can be found surrounded by her family and friends, or clawing her way toward a degree in physiotherapy.
Morgan J. Manns
Author of upcoming YA project and is in several Twenty Hills anthologies.
Morgan J. Manns is a speculative fiction author nestled in the rural Canadian prairies. While her current occupation is that of middle school teacher, her dream job will always be dragon rider, soaring through the skies of her imaginings.
A wife and mother of two, Morgan enjoys crafting stories that bring light to the dark spaces. When she’s not writing—or lost in thought about writing—she can be found reading, sketching, or exploring the Canadian wilderness with her family. Her short fiction has appeared in Havok Publishing, The Order of the Pen Press, Twenty Hills Publishing, and Quill and Flame Publishing. Her flash fiction story Glaukopis, published by Havok Publishing, was long-listed for a Realm Award.
Moriah Chavis
Author of The Curious Case of the Midnight Specter and is in several Twenty Hills anthologies.
Moriah Chavis is the author of the 3-times Realm Makers finalist young adult fantasy, Heart of the Sea, and various short stories. Her next novel, a YA speculative mystery, is coming from Twenty Hills Publishers September 2025. She is a two-time graduate from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts and a Master’s in Library and Information Science. It's been said you can find her perusing bookstores, attempting to persuade strangers to read her favorite books, oscillating between watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy (her husband’s favorite) or Harry Potter (hers), and keeping her books from the clutches of her two feisty cats.
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The Curious Case of the Midnight Specter publication date is September 21, 2025!
