K. G. McAbee has been writing full time since 1999. She sold her first short story to the perspicacious Canadian sf/f magazine Challenging Destiny, and shortly thereafter won first prize in the Writers’ Journal Fiction Contest. Her first book won the prestigious Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence from Reviewers International. Her books can be found at the following publishers:   Calderwood Books: THE DARK LEGACY, book one in a YA fantasy series. Book two, THE ISLAND PRISON, and the light fantasy CABBAGES AND KINGS, have also been contracted by Calderwood.   Double-Dragon Ebooks: ESCAPE THE PAST and FLIGHT TO MALMILLARD, both dark fantasies   Awe-Struck Books: A WILL OF HER OWN, Regency suspense. Coming soon, A DOLEFUL KIND OF SINGING, gothic suspense.   Moonstone Books: THE DOMINO LADY, pulp anthology.   Altus Press: TRIPLE DETECTIVE #2, pulp detective.   Uncial Press: THE PLAUSIBLE PRINCE, book one of the Urrathe Wars Series   Wild Cat Books: BEWITCHED BY DARKNESS, fantasy anthology. Also various shorts and novellas in the magazine STARTLING STORIES   Her short fiction has appeared in Challenging Destiny, Romance & Beyond, Classic Pulp Fiction, Startling Stories, The Eternal Night, Crimson, Dark Wisdom, Without a Clue and other magazines, and in Amazon Shorts.     When she’s not writing or reading, seeing movies or tutoring English and algebra at a local college, or teaching writing classes, she spends time with her husband and dogs in upstate South Carolina, in a log cabin built in 1818 surrounded by gardens and creeks.  

Winner, Eppie Awards
Winner, Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence
First Prize, Writer's Journal Fiction Contest
Finalist, Dream Realm Awards
Finalist, Derringer Awards
Finalist, Eppie Awards