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Halo Scot

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Dark Fiction Author

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Bio

Author, Troublemaker, & Void-Screaming Enthusiast

Halo Scot is an award-winning author of dark fiction book monsters, many of which bite. Reviews and press are available below. Halo has been featured in Publishers Weekly, BookLife, and TCK Publishing’s 2022 Readers Choice Award Winners. Also, as a founding member of QueerIndie.com, Scot has appeared at Brooklyn Book Festival and Pop Pride Week, an event hosted by ReedPop, BookCon, and New York Comic Con.

Edge of the Breach
Edge of the Breach

Chaotic Confessions

Halo Scot is a nightmare-dwelling beast who subsists on a steady diet of shadows. Prone to chaos, Halo aims to achieve galactic domination through a void-screaming expertise, dormant telekinesis, and aggressive cackling. Halo pretends to be cool, dark, and mysterious, when in reality, Scot is a rather clumsy and awkward creature with a severe distrust of ladybugs.

To summon this obscure and skittish writer, one must align the following items in a circle as an offering: three shots of whiskey, two bowls of jelly beans, something shiny or lit on fire, and a printed photo of Nicolas Cage as a duck.

Books

Rift Cycle

GRIMDARK SFF SERIES

★★★★★ Praise:
dark, thrilling, brutal, romantic, riveting

We all become monsters at the edge of the breach. In a post-apocalyptic world where season of birth determines power, interrealm war beckons two lost and fated souls. Book order: Edge of the Breach, Echoes of Blood, Eye of the Brave, Elegy of the Void.

Amazon Top 10 New Release:
LGBTQ+ Horror eBooks, LGBTQ+ Science Fiction

Amazon Top 25 New Release:
LGBTQ+ Fantasy

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The Heartbeat of a Million Dreams

The Heartbeat of a Million Dreams

SAPPHIC SFF NOVELLA

★★★★★ Praise:
stunning, brilliant, urgent, stellar, powerful

Mars has a shadow, a mirror world torn from chaos. When a girl comes along with the power to reunite Mars, worlds collide in cosmic war.

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I Will Kill You

PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER NOVEL

★★★★★ Praise:
shocking, stirring, delightful gore and villainy, makes you love a monster

“[A] sharp-edged satirical thriller. […] Astringent prose is a plus. […] Readers able to stomach gore will be entertained.”
– Publishers Weekly

After losing his wife, Alex drowns in crime to support his motherless kids. A new job offers freedom, but freedom demands sacrifice. Crime doesn’t commit itself.

Amazon Top 20 New Release:
Literary Satire Fiction, U.S. Horror Fiction, Horror Suspense

Amazon Top 100 New Release:
Contemporary Urban Fiction, Domestic Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers

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The Mortality Experiment

The Mortality Experiment

GRIMDARK SFF NOVEL

★★★★★ Praise:
a wild ride, masterfully written, Star Trek v. Alien on crack

Secrets are sentient. In the far, foreign future, a deep-space mission turns catastrophic when the crew’s personal demons become literal demons and seek revenge.

Amazon Top 5 New Release:
LGBTQ+ Science Fiction, Disaster Fiction

Amazon Top 15 New Release:
Colonization Science Fiction

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Girl of Dust and Smoke

DARK FICTION NOVELLA

★★★★★ Praise:
vivid and evocative, horrifying and riveting, an extremely dark fall into chaos

In the heart of America’s Second Dust Bowl, amid drought and raging heat, Isobel Walsh weaves a web to survive.

Amazon Top 5 New Release:
LGBTQ+ Horror eBooks, Disaster Fiction

Amazon Top 10 New Release:
LGBTQ+ Science Fiction

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Burn the Sun

Burn the Sun

SFF NOVEL

★★★★★ Praise:
brutality and betrayal is around every corner, on the edge of my seat from page one, swept into the cosmos

Five worlds compete in the Space Olympics to determine which should survive a supernova.

Amazon Top 5 New Release:
Disaster Fiction

Amazon Top 10 New Release:
LGBTQ+ Science Fiction

Amazon Top 20 New Release:
Colonization Science Fiction

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⚠ Content Warning

The Rift Cycle is a highly graphic series intended for mature audiences. There is on-page murder, death, torture, mutilation, rape, child abuse, substance abuse, self-harm, and suicide ideation, as well as triggers for mental illnesses (depression, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD). This list is not comprehensive. Please read at your own risk.

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⚠ Content Warning

I Will Kill You is a highly graphic psychological thriller intended for mature audiences, including on-page murder, death, torture, mutilation, sexual body horror, abuse, child abuse, substance abuse, violence, sex, and mental illnesses. This list is not comprehensive. Please read at your own risk.

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⚠ Content Warning

Girl of Dust and Smoke is a disturbing novella intended for mature audiences. It is a low-plot character study of a lonely and broken individual. As such, it includes murder, death, violence, sex, incest, rape, sexual assault, underage sex, child abuse, and prostitution. This list is not comprehensive. Please read at your own risk.

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⚠ Content Warning

The Mortality Experiment is a highly graphic novel intended for mature audiences, including on-page murder, death, torture, mutilation, abuse, child abuse, substance abuse, violence, sex, rape, incest, and mental illnesses. This list is not comprehensive. Please read at your own risk.

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