Lisa's collection, Monsters Under the Magnolias: Haints, Howls, and Hospitality in a Small Southern Town is a first place winner in the 2025 CIBAs Collections and Anthologies category, which she considers a tremendous honor! Winners were announced in April 2026!
Armed with a PhD in microbiology and a veterinary degree, she writes cozy horror set in haunted Southern towns and sci-fi romances in faraway galaxies. Her stories blend warmth, wonder, and spookiness to keep readers glancing over their shoulders and peeking under the bed before climbing in.
Expect cryptids who aren't what they seem, cursed antiques, and antagonists who have no idea who they are dealing with. She believes every monster deserves a redemption arc and every reader deserves a little magic and happy endings.
The shadows and cryptids in her world have an abundance of personality and southern charm.
Lisa's collection, Monsters Under the Magnolias: Haints, Howls, and Hospitality in a Small Southern Town is a first place winner in the 2025 CIBAs Collections and Anthologies category, which she considers a tremendous honor! Winners were announced in April 2026!
Armed with a PhD in microbiology and a veterinary degree, she writes cozy horror set in haunted Southern towns and sci-fi romances in faraway galaxies. Her stories blend warmth, wonder,...
First place winner at the 2026 CIBAs conference for the Collection and Anthology category!
Welcome to Madison, Georgia, where magnolias bloom, tea is sweet, and monsters are very real.
In this cozy horror collection, the charming town of Madison hides secrets in its flowerbeds and shadows in its attics. Behind every wrought-iron fence and...
When autumn drapes itself over Madison, Georgia, the days shorten, the nights deepen, and something restless stirs beneath the magnolias.
In this Southern town, history lingers in the bricks of old houses and whispers ride the wind through quiet streets. Some say it is only memory. Others know better. Spirits have a way of keeping company in...
Summer in Madison, Georgia, brings long humid nights and the feeling that something out there is watching you.
In this newest collection from the Haunted South, familiar streets and historic homes become the stage for seven strange encounters where folklore, friendship, and the...
Alien warriors. Aquar'thyn heroines. One universe hanging by a thread.
Before they were taken, the Aquar’thyn women lived hidden among us, second-born daughters of the sea who walked the land and concealed their powers. But when they’re abducted...
Welcome to the Haunted South, a mosaic of cozy horror tales that breathe in candlelight and speak in whispers after dark. Each story stands alone yet threads into a shared community rooted in Madison, Georgia, a town of porch lights, magnolia trees, and southern grace. An...
I’m so excited to share that The Creatures of Madison: Monsters, Moonlight, and Southern Legends is now available just in time for your spring reading stack!
I’ll be honest, getting a one-star rating stings. It always does, no matter how many glowing messages or amazing reviews I’ve received. For a moment, it knocked the wind out of...
There are moments in an author’s life that feel a little unreal, even after the email arrives and you read it three times to make sure your caffeine-driven brain didn’t hallucinate the whole thing.
This week was one of those moments for me.
Monsters Under the Magnolias has officially won First Place at the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs).
I honestly do not have words big enough for what that means to me.
When I started writing stories about cryptids wandering around Madison,...
Monsters Under the Magnolias: Haints, Howls, and Hospitality in a Small Southern Town has been named a semi-finalist in the 2025 CIBAs Collections and Anthologies category.
When I started writing these stories set in Madison, Georgia, I didn't have awards in mind. I was wondering what would happen if a frightening cryptid showed up at an elderly woman's back door during freezing cold weather and thanks to her poor eyesight, she thinks it's a sphynx cat....
Every book in the Abrauxian Brides universe has its own heart, but this one sparkles with a special kind of winter magic.
Adeline’s Abrauxian Santa Claws began as a simple idea: What if an Aquar’thyn heroine decided to bring Christmas to a frozen alien moon? What if she brought cinnamon, hot chocolate, twinkling Christmas lights, and pure Earth whimsy to the stark icy moon of Roxus? What if she convinced her stoic, frost-blooded Abrauxian husband with albinism to wear a red velvet cape and...