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H.L. Bernabe

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HL Bernabe wrote her first story at age seven: a tale of horror and woe involving a nine-foot-tall stick of celery that followed her home and tried to eat her. She still doesn’t trust celery.

That early flair for storytelling eventually led to a filmmaking degree with an emphasis on screenwriting, and two decades spent GM-ing tabletop RPGs—training that turns out to be excellent practice for building fantasy worlds. When the pandemic hit, she channeled the extra time into writing, completing three books of her fantasy epic, The Dell Chronicles, in just sixteen months. Cooking Up Magick, Book One in the series, releases in October.

HL lives in the high desert of Central Oregon, where the mountains are tall, the summers are hot, and the winters ...more

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H.L. Bernabe liked litandcoffee's review of Cooking Up Magick (The Dell Chronicles, #1): "A cozy culinary quest grows into a high-stakes fantasy adventure in Bernabe’s spirited series opener in the Dell Chronicles. Halfling chef Paisley Dell sets out to explore foreign cuisines and bring new recipes home, only to discover a startling conn" Read more of this review »
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H.L. Bernabe liked BooksCoffee's review of Cooking Up Magick (The Dell Chronicles, #1): "Bernabe’s series opener in the Dell Chronicles serves up an ambitious blend of cozy fantasy, sprawling adventure, romance, and high-stakes epic fantasy, anchored by an endearing heroine whose greatest strengths are compassion and curiosity. Halfling " Read more of this review »
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H.L. Bernabe liked Victoria Snellings's review of Cooking Up Magick (The Dell Chronicles, #1): "What a wonderful opening to a series! I really enjoyed reading this book. I can't wait to find out what happens next. Cozy with epic adventures, found family, inclusive, and light versus dark. The writing was descriptive without being overly wordy. I" Read more of this review »
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