Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Award-winning author, editor, and publisher Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with Mike McPhail and Greg Schauer to form eSpec Books.

Danielle has been Guest of Honor at both Heliosphere and ChessieCon. 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, Between Darkness and Light, and the non-fiction writers’ guides The Literary Handyman, More Tips from the Handyman, and LH: Build-A-Book Workshop. She is the senior editor of the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, Gaslight & Grimm, Side of Good/Side of Evil, After Punk, Footprints in the Stars, The Chaos Clock, and many other anthologies. Her short stories are included in numerous other anthologies and collections. Over her career, she has created such popular series as the Bad-Ass Faeries anthologies, the Systema Paradoxa cryptid novellas, and the Forgotten Lore steampunk anthologies.

She is a former member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and an active member of the Horror Writers Association.

In addition to her literary acclaim, she crafts and sells homemade flavor-infused candied ginger and other confections under the brand of Ginger KICK! at literary conventions, on commission, and wholesale, and has authored three cookbooks: Auntie D’s Recipes, Auntie D’s Sweet Treats, and The Ginger KICK! Cookbook.

Danielle lives with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail and four extremely spoiled cats.