Deborah Riley-Magnus is an author and an author success coach. Her fiction is creative and magical, beginning with the Twice-Baked Vampire Series books 1 and 2, Cold in California and Monkey Jump. A fascination with the battle between good and evil plays out in fantastical worlds built for her specific stories, worlds that deliver childlike curiosity, dark explorations of human nature, and the struggle to remain strong in the face of danger and loss. Deborah lives in beautiful Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and writes in her quiet home office overlooking the sparkling city with three rivers. Seeing that view has spurred fantasies of mystical Native American peoples who lived along those rivers, the constant what if? and the occasional shifting vision of dragon tails whipping around the glass castle spires atop the PPG building. Are there trolls under the million bridges? Does a monster dwell in the fourth river beneath the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers? Does the ghost of a little girl really sing in the hundred-year-old hallway behind her as she writes? This is where real fantasy comes from. And it makes this author smile.
