Lucy A. Snyder Books In Order

Publication Order of Jessie Shimmer Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Collections

Publication Order of Gothic Fantasy Books

Publication Order of Unidentified Funny Objects Annual Anthology Books

Publication Order of Dark Tide Horror Novellas Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author.

She has written the Jessie Shimmer stories featuring Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess. She has also written the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide.

Snyder is also the author of the poetry collections Exposed Nerves and Chimeric Machines. She has also written story collections such as Halloween Season, Garden of Eldritch Delights, While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousels, Sparks and Shadows, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.

Her writing has been translated into many different languages including Italian, French, Russian, Czech, and Japanese. It has also appeared in many different publications such as Nightmare Magazine, Apex Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, In the Court of the Yellow King, Steampunk World, Shadows Over Main Street, Scary Out There, Seize the Night, and Best Horror of the Year Volume 5.

Snyder writes a column for Horror World. She has also written materials for the D6xD6 role-playing game system. For her day job, she edits college courses for universities all over the globe and occasionally helps out writing educational games.

Lucy is a mentor in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in writing popular fiction. She resides in Columbus, Ohio.

Spellbent is the first book in the Jessie Shimmer series by Lucy A. Snyder. If you have been looking for something new and interesting to read, check this out!

Jessie Shimmer is in the heart of Ohio and is caught up in hot, magic-drenched passion with her lover, Cooper Marron. He’s teaching her how to naturally tap into her supernatural powers. When the pair try to break a drought by calling down a rainstorm, a hellish portal opens.

Cooper is ripped from the world, leaving Jessie on her own fighting for her life against the demon that has been unleashed. In the aftermath, Jessie is branded an outlaw. She still knows so little about her own true nature.

She must survive by her wits and with the help of Palimpsest, a ferret familiar. Stalked by malevolent enemies, Jessie will not rest until she finds out what happened to Cooper. But when she moves heaven and earth to find her lover, she will be shocked by what she finds and what she must do to save all of them. Is she up to the task? Read this book to find out!

Shotgun Sorceress is the second book in the Jessie Shimmer series by Lucy A. Snyder. If you liked the first book, be sure and check out the second!

Jessie Shimmer had everything in her world change when she went to hell and back so that she could save Cooper Marron. After tangling with supernatural forces and killing a spirit lord, Jessie finds herself cursed or gifted with dark powers.

When she and Cooper make love now, her throes light the house on fire. What should a sorceress do in these scenarios? Jessie is about to find out about it all. The circumstances of her birth, the mystery father she never knew, and a ferret turned into a monster have made her a revolutionary in the magic realm.

Encountering portals stitched into air and a sexy soul harvester, Jessie has been rushing headlong among horrors, wonders, enemies and lovers to a place where she will either discover herself or initiate her own destruction. What will happen? Read this book to find out!