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Danielle Ackley-McPhail

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Award-winning author, editor, and publisher Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with husband Mike McPhail and friend Greg Schauer to form her own publishing house, eSpec Books (www.especbooks.com).

Her published works include seven novels, Yesterday's Dreams, Tomorrow's Memories, Today’s Promise, The Halfling’s Court, The Redcaps’ Queen, Daire’s Devils, and Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo collections Eternal Wanderings, A Legacy of Stars, Consigned to the Sea, Flash in the Can, Transcendence, Between Darkness and Light, The Fox’s Fire, The Kindly One, and the non-fiction writers ...more

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	Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author), Day Al-Mohamed (Goodreads Author), Ed Coutts (Illustrator) 4.20 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Ass Faeries by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeffrey Lyman (Editor) 3.96 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Halfling's Court (A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale Book 1) by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author), Linda Saboe (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Plain Bad by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author) (Editor), L. Jagi Lamplighter (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lee C. Hillman (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gaslight & Grimm: Steampunk Faerie Tales by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Diana Bastine (Editor), James Chambers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yesterday's Dreams (The Eternal Cycle #1) 3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon's Lure by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author) (Editor), C.E. Murphy (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Keith R.A. DeCandido (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daire's Devils 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Build-A-Book Workshop 4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eternal Wanderings 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bad-Ass Faeries (5 books)
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The Bad-Ass Faerie Tale Series (3 books)
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Ed Coutts (Illustrator)

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The Eternal Cycle (4 books)
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The Literary Handyman (3 books)
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Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

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An Excerpt from the Long-Awaited Sequel to Yesterday's Dreams (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

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Description: The prelude to Danielle Ackley-McPhail's newest novel, Tomorrow's Memories, book two in the Eternal Cycle Series

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