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.
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.
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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.
Holly Prinsen narrates The Heartbeat of a Million Dreams.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER NOVEL
★★★★★ Praise: shocking, stirring, delightful gore and villainy
“[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.
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VOID-SCREAMING NOTEBOOK
This is a rage journal, a void-screaming notebook, your own personal abyss in which to offer high-decibel sacrifices. Pour fury into its pages, and earn its loyalty through explosions of wrath.
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★★★★★ 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.
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URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY
★★★★★ Praise: a great showcase of talented authors, goosebump-raising, shiver-filled, creepy and macabre
From thirteen different authors, we bring you tales of those things that walk among us. The inexplicable, the strange, and perhaps deranged.
FREE BOOKThe 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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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.
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.
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.
