Beginning with DARKER STILL, an American Booksellers Association INDIE NEXT list. It’s my hope that sharing my love of the classics, using them as the building blocks of my storytelling as a modern Historical Fantasy author, keeps me tethered to my earliest inspirations, the closest fires to my muse. View Leanna Renee Hiebers profile on LinkedIn, the worlds largest.

My goal in life is to be a “gateway drug to 19th century literature”. My books all pay homage to classic novels in one way or another. You are what you read as a writer, and the most formative novels, the ones I connected to on the viscerally dramatic and soulful level in a way I found only Gothic fiction could really do, are what defines me today. by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes Published by: Kensington Imprint: Citadel 352 Pages, 5.42 x 8.19 x 0.90 in ISBN: 9780806541587 On Sale: HISTORY / Women 16. The historical context of the classics allowed for another fantasy world to be taking place delving into another time entirely. ) And while being a Goth girl doesn’t necessarily correlate with being a Gothic novelist (Gothic literature having its own separate definition and trajectory than “Goth” culture), there are most certainly parallels.īooks like THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, FRANKENSTEIN, and DRACULA were books that excited my keen flair for the dramatic, my interest in the supernatural and satisfied my craving for rich vocabulary. Read reviews and buy A Haunted History of Invisible Women - by Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes (Paperback) at Target. DARKER STILL: A Novel of Magic Most Foul, hit the Kids/YA INDIE NEXT LIST as a. I’ve been a Goth girl ever since, at least in spirit. Browse Leanna Renee Hiebers best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. I felt like he and I saw stories with the same eyes his ability to weave the macabre with the beautiful defined my earliest style. I was entranced by his stories, enraptured by his poetry. The first author I can recall having a profound effect on me as a pre-teen was Edgar Allan Poe.

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