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22/09/2025

Let's introduce the cast of characters for Death of the Party, starting with CECILIA “SISSY” WARDWELL

Cecilia, known to everyone besides her grandmother as “Sissy,” is starting 8th grade in a new school after moving into a not-so-new house. Her family has made the move to accommodate her grandmother, who has dementia.

Leaving her old school and friends behind, Sissy struggles to fit in with long-formed cliques at Calderon Middle School. Her younger super-jock brother Chuck seamlessly blends in and makes instant friends while Sissy spends her spare time working on a short story featuring duchess-turned-zombie Lovey Peaton.

Level-headed and “normal,” Sissy ends up befriending a couple of social outcasts in school, Marlow and Albany. Soon after, everything changes for Sissy once she discovers an old hair pin that used to belong to her grandma.

19/09/2025

Praise for Death of the Party by Thomas Kingsley Troupe.

"You can tell Thomas Kingsley Troupe is an experienced paranormal investigator-everything in this hauntingly-good tale feels authentic, from the spine-tingling chills to Sissy's horror at realizing she can SEE ghosts! Death of the Party will provide a great Halloween scare!"
—BLAKE HOENA, author of the Pillow-Man series

MiddleGradeHorror

18/09/2025

Death of the Party is available on Booksirens

If you're looking for a supernatural / horror book to read leading up to Halloween, Booksirens has several titles to choose from, including book 1 of the Hair-Raiser series.

You can download a free review copy at the link below.
https://booksirens.com/book/YW7INF7/HGK363D

16/09/2025

Death of the Party is available on Net Galley

You can download a free review copy at the link below.
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/716294

15/09/2025

We'd like to introduce you to a new a spine-tingling middle grade horror series by Thomas Kingsley Troupe.

In Hair-Raiser, meet Cecilia "Sissy" Wardwell—the new girl at Calderon Middle School who can see the dead.

Book 1: Death of the Party—Sissy discovers a family heirloom that will be perfect for her Halloween costume, a Victorian zombie, but when she picks up the eerily chilly hairpin, it opens hers eyes to a world of shadows and spirits

Perfect for fans of Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and anyone who's ever felt like the outsider at a new school.

Visit to link in our bio to learn more about our latest release.

12/09/2025

Received the printer proof of Death of the Party, book 1 in Thomas Kingsley Troupe's Hair-Raiser series, and just in time for its release.

It sure is looking mysterious and spooky!

Check out the link in our bio to learn more about our latest book.

29/08/2025

Meet author Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Thomas has been writing horror stories since he was in high school, is a paranormal investigator who's visited haunted houses, and has written many, MANY books for young readers. So we are excited to have him contracted to a four-book series: Hair-Raiser.

After eighth-grader Cecilia "Sissy" Wardwell discovers an antique hairpin—a family heirloom with a chilling secret—hidden in the attic of her family's new home, she starts seeing things. Scary things. Shadows come alive and the dead make themselves known as she is thrown into the world of the paranormal.

Book 1, Death of the Party, is set to release early September. To learn more, you can visit the link in our bio or click on the link below.

02/07/2025

Do you have a young mountain biker looking for a summer read (or listen) to get them pumped up to hit the trails this holiday weekend?

Then we have the book for you ... Chasing AlleyCat by Rebecca Fjelland Davis. It's part mystery, part heart-thumping ride.

Check the link in our bio for further details

30/06/2025

Last year, we re-released Chasing AllieCat by — the heart-pounding tale of Sadie and her mountain biking friends. This year, Davis's YA story is now available as an audio book.

Follow the link in our bio to learn more.

SUMMARY: When Sadie Lester is sent to stay with relatives in small-town Minnesota, she expects a boring few months away from home. But this is supposed to be her summer. The summer she starts mountain bike racing. And she is determined to do just that!

She meets Allie—a fearless mountain biker—and her friend Joe, and the trio becomes fast friends, but the joy of riding the local trails is threaten when they discover a priest, badly beaten and near death, in the woods.

Afterward, Allie disappears.

Sadie races to unravel the mystery surrounding Allie’s past. The closer she gets to the truth, the more perilous her summer becomes.

27/06/2025

Words of praise for , narrator of The Stray Pitch by Marilyn Bos.

"I can’t imagine anyone else voicing the character of Wendy Winkworth.

Sherri Slater did more than simply narrate The Stray Pitch. She brought the smart and sassy Wendy Winkworth to life, capturing her s***k, her sense of humor, and the young PI’s ingenuity as she worked her first case."
—Blake Hoena, Editorial Director

You can learn more about The Stray Pitch at https://www.audible.com/pd/B0F79ZN9PD/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-446865&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_446865_rh_us

13/06/2025

Meet Wendy Winkworth, protagonist of The Stray Pitch by Marilyn Bos

Wendy is hired to investigate the murder of Betty Jane Wadlow, star pitcher for the Burton City Hornettes women's baseball team. To do this, she goes undercover as a utility player on the team, despite having no baseball skills.

Age: 24 years old
Profession: newly licensed private investigator
Nickname(s): the dickless dick—a self-deprecating play on detective slang; Winkie—by teammates
Origins: a farm in Arkansas
Current Home: a trailer on the outskirts of Iowa City, Iowa
Family History: due to her father's criminal past as a small-time crook, Wendy has certain skills, like lock-picking

Overall, Wendy is a determined sleuth who uses her intelligence and resourcefulness to prove herself in a male dominated profession.

You can find out more about the books in the Wendy Winkworth trilogy at the link in our bio.

09/06/2025

Praise for The Stray Pitch by the audio book's narrator

I couldn’t help but fall in love with 24-year-old Private Investigator Wendy Winkworth tackling her first job as a PI. She’s funny, fearless, irreverent, determined, with natural investigative instincts. I’m quite certain she was channeling Phillip Marlow as she narrates her inner thoughts on each piece of the puzzle she encounters working undercover in the Star-Spangled Girls Baseball league, where the star pitcher is murdered. The story got me interested in the real All American Girls Professional Baseball league (AAGPBL) operating from 1943-1954, made famous again by the movie A League of Their Own, with Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and many others.

The Stray Pitch takes place in 1950 when girls professional baseball began showing signs of wear. Its heyday was during WWII when every able-bodied male went off to war giving space for girls to take the field and help to raise the spirits of war weary public. But by the 50’s the men were back and re-taking front stage on the field. The players Wendy encounters in the Star-Spangled Hornets are an extremely competitive bunch, fighting to keep their place in a game whose days are numbered, making the players edgy, defensive, and suspicious of any perceived underlying motives. This atmosphere makes Wendy’s job even more challenging and she is not welcomed with open arms into the league. But as you’ll see she doesn’t scare easy!

Wendy, grew up in the backwoods, on a dilapidated farm in Northern Arkansas, with two brothers, a rather absent Maw and a Paw she didn’t meet until age 12, who wasn’t known to be law-abiding. She learned quick the ways of outlawing and eventually decided maybe it was better to put this hard-earned knowledge to work on the right side of the law.

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