Since we’ve switched over to a new host with our monthly updates, I’ve decided to separate the monthly author spotlight into its own post! I’d really like the featured authors to get the recognition they deserve without being at the bottom of my newsletter.
So, without further ado… June’s Author Spotlight belongs to the amazingly talented Jessica McHugh!
Jessica McHugh is a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet, a multi-genre novelist, & an internationally-produced playwright who spends her days surrounded by artistic inspiration at a Maryland tattoo shop. She’s had twenty-nine books published in fourteen years, including her Elgin Award-nominated blackout poetry collections, “A Complex Accident of Life" and "Strange Nests,” her sci-fi bizarro romp, “The Green Kangaroos,” and her cross-generational horror series, “The Gardening Guidebooks Trilogy.” Explore the growing worlds of Jessica McHugh at McHughniverse.com.
She wakes up in a 1973 Volkswagen Kombi, naked and afraid . . .
An aspiring singer/songwriter, Sophie Francis is searching for inspiration, pining for connection, and desperate to know why she feels so different from everyone else. Maybe it’s the ghosts whispering in the apartment above her, or the chilling thoughts writhing in her mind when the ghosts are quiet. Maybe she’s a reincarnated saint abducted as an infant and raised by a former serial killer.
Or maybe she’s just sixteen.
Upon meeting an intoxicating musician named Liam LaSalle and an enigmatic community of misfits known as the Choir of the Lamb, Sophie scampers down a rabbit hole of music, martyrs, and madness. There, she discovers her link to a dangerous legacy and a fiery little girl named Avery Norton.
From 2x Bram Stoker & Elgin Award nominee, Jessica McHugh, Hares in the Hedgerow leads Sophie Francis on a disturbing and transformative journey to expose and harness the darkness in the roots of her family tree.
Absolutely enthralled? So am I! Here’s where you can follow Jessica McHugh and grab all of the books in the series so far. (Be on the lookout for Book 3 coming soon…)
Hares in the Hedgerow: https://perpetualpublishing.com/product/hares-in-the-hedgerow/
Gardening Guidebooks Bundle: https://perpetualpublishing.com/product/gardening-guidebooks-bundle/
Website: www.McHughniverse.com
IG: @thejessmchugh
Twitter: @thejessmchugh
Tiktok: @thejessmchugh
Until next month,
Kat
