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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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	Bad Ass Faeries by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeffrey Lyman (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 90 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
	Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author), Day Al-Mohamed (Goodreads Author), Ed Coutts (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 100 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
	Gaslight & Grimm: Steampunk Faerie Tales by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Diana Bastine (Editor), James Chambers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 44 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
	The Halfling's Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale (Bad-Ass Faerie Tales, #1) by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author), Linda Saboe (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 40 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
	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
	Build-A-Book Workshop 4.23 avg rating — 30 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
	The Literary Handyman: Tips on Writing From Someone Who's Been there by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author), Ty Drago (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	In All Their Glory (Bad-Ass Faeries, #3) by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeffrey Lyman (Editor), L. Jagi Lamplighter (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	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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AUTHOR NEWS – DANIELLE ACKLEY-McPHAIL

It is with great pleasure that we announce that eSpec Books author and publisher Danielle Ackley-McPhail has been invited to be guest of honor at this year’s Chessiecon. The event is scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend (November 26-28, 2021) at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

Danielle has been a long-time participant of the convention, going back nearly a decade when the convention

Series by Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Bad-Ass Faeries (5 books)
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Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author) (Editor),

Keith R.A. DeCandido (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

Jody Lynn Nye (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

John Passarella (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

D.L. Thurston (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

N.R. Brown (Contributor),

John L. French (Contributor),

Lee C. Hillman (Contributor),

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The Eternal Cycle (4 books)
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Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author)

4.07 avg rating — 101 ratings

The Bad-Ass Faerie Tale Series (3 books)
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Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author),

Ed Coutts (Illustrator)

4.20 avg rating — 74 ratings

The Literary Handyman (3 books)
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Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author)

4.27 avg rating — 60 ratings

RealmScapes (1 book)
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Kathy Tyers (Goodreads Author),

L. Jagi Lamplighter (Goodreads Author),

Wayne Thomas Batson (Goodreads Author),

James Chambers,

Steve Rzasa (Goodreads Author),

Paul Regnier (Goodreads Author),

Kerry Nietz (Goodreads Author),

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4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings

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Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

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Description: An excerpt from the upcoming novel by Danielle Ackley-McPhail and Day Al-Mohamed

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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