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Kelly Dwyer

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in Torrance, California , The United States

February 28

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Fiction, Horror, Mystery

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Hello! I'm Kelly Dwyer, and I'm the author of GHOST MOTHER, published by Union Square & Co., August 2024, as well as two other novels. GHOST MOTHER asks the question, "Is the house really haunted? Or is the narrator losing touch with reality?" (After you read the novel, please let me know what you think!)
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Oberlin College, I grew up in San Pedro, California, and now divide my time between Baraboo (near Madison) Wisconsin, and Los Angeles. Please visit
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"GHOST MOTHER is a moving, thrilling ride!"

From Mona Susan Power, author of numerous award-wining novels, including the recent A COUNCIL OF DOLLS:

"GHOST MOTHER is a moving, thrilling ride! I was so caught up in the mystery of the narrator's possible haunting, I couldn't stop reading until I learned the story's many secrets. I've read ALL the best haunted house novels, but none of them shocked me more at the conclusion than this mesmerizing Read more of this blog post »

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