Heather Hutsell

Heather E. Hutsell began writing stories at age eleven. Her first—a murder mystery—won her an award through the Young Authors program, as did two more detective mysteries in as many years. Already set on becoming an author, she published her first novella, Awakening Alice—a sequel to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland—in the collaborative work Ghost on the Highway in 2006. She went on to self-publish an illustrated version of Awakening Alice along with its sequel, A Ticket for Patience, in 2007. A willing prisoner to her many muses, Heather has since written and self-published eleven more novels, two novellas, and four short story collections, with her newest book being the second volume of humorous and macabre short stories involving dolls, marionettes and automata. Her works include romantic horror, absurdist fiction, dystopian tales, fairytales gone awry, dark comedy, 1930's and 40's noir, and a steampunk mystery series, The Case Files. Heather has also written for two historical documentary series: The Indian Wars: A Change of Worlds, and Emancipation Road.