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Brooklyn native Steven Van Patten is the author of the critically acclaimed Brookwater’s Curse trilogy, about an 1860s Georgia plantation slave who becomes law enforcement within the vampire community. In contrast, the titular character in his Killer Genius series is a modern-day hyper-intelligent black woman who uses high-end technology as a socially conscious serial killer.
SVP’s short fiction includes contributions to horror anthologies like Hell’s Kitties, Shopping List 4, and the Stoker Award-nominated New York State of Fright. A collection of short horror and dark fiction stories entitled Hell At The Way Station, published by his company Laughing Black Vampire Productions and co-authored by acclaimed storyteller, Marc Abbott hit shelves in 2018.
Along with a plethora of other honors and accolades, SVP won three African-African-American Literary Awards in 2019, two for Hell At The Way Station (Best Anthology and Best In Science Fiction) and one for Best Independent Publisher. He’s also written episodes of the YouTube series, Extra Credit/Extra Mythology, and is currently a contributor for the Viral Vignettes, a charity-driven YouTube comedy series benefitting The Actor’s Fund.
He uses his full name on Facebook but goes by @svpthinks on Twitter and Instagram. When he’s not creating macabre literature, he can be found stage managing television shows primarily in New York City and occasionally on the West Coast. Along with being a member of the New York Chapter of The Horror Writer’s Association, he’s also a member of The Director’s Guild of America and the professional arts fraternity Gamma Xi Phi.
DL White is the oldest of three children to Marvin, a US Air Force, Retired and Angela White, a retired aircraft machinist. She grew up on various Air Force bases until the family settled in Spokane, Washington, where they remain today.
DL White began pursuing a writing career in 2011 after enjoying a lifetime of reading and hobby writing. In 2015, she published Brunch at Ruby’s, an upmarket contemporary fiction novel that explores the lives of three best friends and the soul food cafe at the center of their friendship. Since then, she has published ten Black romance and women’s fiction titles in eBook, print, and audio formats with more to come. Books can be purchased at booksbydlwhite.com/books.
A 1996 graduate of Eastern Washington University, DL holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interpersonal Communication Studies and minored in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. By day, DL is an Executive Assistant for a global beverage brand. By night, she writes, reads, and lives in the metro Atlanta area. DL has a legendary love for coffee, fried chicken, and brunch, especially on a patio. Her true obsession is water: lakes, rivers, oceans, waterfalls!
When not writing books, DL devours them. She enjoys romance, contemporary and historical Black fiction, mystery, thrillers, and suspense novels. She shares her thoughts on books and writing at booksbydlwhite.com/blog.
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