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Paula Schmidt

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Born

Kansas City, The United States

Website

https://www.eveningskingdom.com

Genre

Fantasy

Influences

Jim Harrison, Anne Rice, X Files

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February 2026

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Paula Schmidt lives in Charleston, SC with her husband and cat people, Gita and Goodboy. Her stories are published in The Art Mag and Sierra Nevada Review, and have won awards and scholarships, including residencies with the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and the NOEPE Center for Literary Arts.

Evenings Kingdom, her serialized epic fantasy, is available on Apple Music, Spotify and all major podcast platforms.

I also write as Pauline West ...more

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	Candlemoth: A Holy City Romance by Pauline West (Goodreads Author), Paula Schmidt (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2016 — 10 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
	Evening's Land by Pauline West (Goodreads Author), Paula Schmidt (Goodreads Author) 3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Stalker by Pauline West (Goodreads Author), Paula Schmidt (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Smoke & Honey: Book One it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 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
	Children: The Kids Are Not All Right by Pauline West (Goodreads Author), Paula Schmidt (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	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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Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, #5)

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Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

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