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Deborah Sheldon

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I'm a multi-award-winning author and anthology editor from Melbourne, Australia. I write poetry, short stories, novelettes, novellas and novels across the darker spectrum of horror, crime and noir. My latest titles are the novel Nightmare Reef and the poetry collection The Broonie and Other Dark Poems.
My award-winning titles include the novella Redhead Town and the collection Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories. My award-nominated titles include the novels Nightmare Reef, Bodily Harm, Cretaceous Canyon, Body Farm Z, Contrition and Devil Dragon; the novella Thylacines; and the collections Figments and Fragments: Dark Stories and Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories.
My short fiction has appeared in many well-respected magazines, been shortlis
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Deborah Sheldon I'm so glad you enjoyed Contrition! Thanks for your wonderful review (I've posted it on my website). Regarding a sequel to Contrition, I envisaged the…moreI'm so glad you enjoyed Contrition! Thanks for your wonderful review (I've posted it on my website). Regarding a sequel to Contrition, I envisaged the story as a stand-alone, but if enough readers expressed an interest, I would certainly consider exploring the story further. I have a great fondness for the characters!(less)
Deborah Sheldon James, I'm so glad you enjoyed Devil Dragon! No, I don't have any plans for a sequel. I explored everything I wanted to with those characters, that mo…moreJames, I'm so glad you enjoyed Devil Dragon! No, I don't have any plans for a sequel. I explored everything I wanted to with those characters, that monster, and their situation. I often get asked by readers of Devil Dragon - as well as my other novels and novellas - if I would consider writing prequels, sequels and spin-offs, but to revisit stories risks ruining them. If you like Devil Dragon, you might like my other creature-feature titles.(less)
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Poem in latest issue of ILLUMEN MAGAZINE

Illumen is a quarterly digest of science fiction, fantasy and horror poetry that showcases
traditional as well as minimalist forms, rhyming and free verse, and experimental forms.

Illumen Magazine Summer 2026 includes my poem "Gifts of Bone". The poetic form I used is the Welsh awdl gywydd.

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Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
"I read this in search for applicable poetry to writing my wedding vows. While her words are beautiful, they were a bit too flowery to work as part of a speech, but it was still fun to visit her poetry."
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This door-stopper anthology has 43 stories - plus my foreword! - so it's a smorgasbord to any lover of creature-feature horror. Kudos to editor Robin Knabel for curating such a vast and entertaining array of monster tales. ...more
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I've read a couple of Jackson's novels, yet didn't expect this to be so funny. In fact, I laughed out loud a few times. Jackson's dialogue in particular sounds every bit as witty and acerbic as Dorothy Parker, another of my favourite 20th-century aut ...more
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This is compulsively readable. It's no wonder Michener won the Pulitzer Prize; the writing style is engaging, the stories intriguing, and the characterisations are terrific. But now, I'm wondering how on earth Hollywood turned Michener's collection o ...more
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