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J.R. Potter is the author and illustrator of the critically-acclaimed THOMAS CREEPER series about a reluctant mortician's apprentice turned detective for the dead. Booklist calls Potter's debut THOMAS CREEPER AND THE GLOOMSBURY SECRET "marvelously macabre!" The novel won the 2019 Kraken Prize for Middle Grade Fiction and has become a staff pick at libraries across the world from San Jose to Saudi Arabia. The second Gloomsbury mystery THOMAS CREEPER AND THE PURPLE CORPSE hits shelves 6/15/23 from Black Rose Writing. Potter's graphic novel work has been published by Image Comics (THE GLIMMER SOCIETY, first appearance in Issues #2 and #3 of VOID TRIP), and his short fiction has been collected in various horror, steampunk, and sci-fi anthologie ...more

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J.R. Potter I've had one mind-blowing supernatural encounter in the past ten years involving a ghost standing in our bedroom holding a baby or a doll. Not translu…moreI've had one mind-blowing supernatural encounter in the past ten years involving a ghost standing in our bedroom holding a baby or a doll. Not translucent or glowing, but real as you or me. I had the most intense sadness wash over me when I saw her and found out later after giving the description to my wife that one of her band members a few years earlier at seen the same woman at the top of the stairs! Certainly a mystery, and one that I might need to adapt into a future story. Great question!(less)
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All Books Build Bridges

There is something simple and wonderful and sensual about a book. You are most likely reading these words on a lighted screen, perhaps while your child is trying to grab hold of the tail of a dog or paint the hallway with chocolate milk.

A book is a refuge that smells of good pulpy-ness (if you've ever been downwind from a paper factory, you'll know what BAD pulpy-ness smells like).

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