Our Authors
Lindz McLeod
Preferred Pronouns: She/They
Hedone Release: Sunbathers, 6th September 2024
Bio: Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer and poet who dabbles in the surreal. Her short prose has been published by Apex, Catapult, Pseudopod, and many more. Her longer work includes the short story collection TURDUCKEN (Spaceboy, 2023), as well as her books BEAST (Hear Us Scream, 2023), SUNBATHERS (Hedone Books, 2024), THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET (Harlequin, 2025), WE, THE DROWNING (Android Press, 2026), and the collaborative anthology AN HONOUR AND A PRIVILEGE (Stanchion, 2025). Her work has been taught in schools, universities, and turned into avant-garde opera. She is a full member of the SFWA, the club president of the Edinburgh Writers' Club, and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing.
@lindzmcleod on Twitter and bluesky
Sapphire Lazuli
Preferred Pronouns: she/they
Hedone Release: Squirm, you precious thing.
Bio: Sapphire Lazuli (she/they), Author of 'Our Witchless Flesh' (Coming 2025 via Off Limits Press) and writer/director of 'Haunted Houses and Houses That Haunt' and 'Those Were The Days', is an artist whose brush is dipped in weird horror and perverted desires. Their prose is often described as beautifully poetic and adjacent to the reader; Sapphire does not write stories that will hold your hand. Be it cosmic entities appearing as places, gross and erotic explorations of the boundaries of form, deep dives into the darkest ridges of the mind and desire, or even video essays divulging the many mechanisms that construct fear, her horror is bound to allure you.
S. M. Hallow
Hedone Release: How to Survive this Fairytale
Bio: S. M. Hallow is a speculative fiction author whose short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction. Hallow’s short story “How to Stay Married to Baba Yaga” was included on the Locus 2023 Recommended Reading List and selected for inclusion in the Best of Fantasy, Vol. 3, edited by Paula Guran. Other short stories have appeared in Baffling Magazine, CatsCast, Seize the Press, and Taco Bell Quarterly, among others. Hallow is represented by Laura Zats of Headwater Literary Management. Connect on Twitter @smhallow, Instagram @smhallowink, and TikTok @s.m.hallow
Ashley Michele / Ash
Preferred Pronouns: She/They
Hedone Release: Forgive Me, Father. 2026
Bio: Ashley Michele is your neighborhood queer little witch. She likes snark, stuffies, and dark, fantastical things. She also enjoys writing about mixed latine plus-sized babies (such as herself) getting to live out their best lives with queer and kinky loving. She has a BA from Florida State University that she still hasn’t opened. When she’s not doing library things or sending hour-long voice notes to someone she loves, she can usually be found in her hammock between the trees of her swamp or listening to an audiobook while she paints and catches some sun. You can find them on all socials, Instagram, TikTok, Threads as AshleyMicheleLx or over on their website at Ashleymichelelx.com
William Sterling
Preferred Pronouns: He/Him
Hedone Release: Dead Men's Chests
Bio: William Sterling is a perpetually overwhelmed, constantly confused author, screenwriter, podcaster, and editor from the void that is Dacula, GA. He tends to write "popcorn flick horror" with big set pieces, absurd kills, and characters that make embarrassingly bad decisions. He doesn't typically write kinky horror, but he can appreciate a good hedonistic yarn along with the moistiest of them.
Twitter: @spooky_sterling
Insta: @spooky_sterling
Website: https://
Wendy Dalrymple
Preferred Pronouns: She/Her
Hedone Release: Feed the Tree, March 2025
Bio: Wendy Dalrymple loves to explore the beauty in horrific things. When she’s not writing femme-focused #pinkhorror, you can find her hiking with her family, painting (bad) wall art, and trying to grow as many pineapples as possible. Follow her at Instagram and TikTok @wendydalrymplewrites or her website, www.wendydalrymple.com
LB Waltz
Preferred Pronouns: they/she/he
Hedone Release: The Redamancy
Bio: LB Waltz has been publishing creative works for over 20 years under various pseudonyms. They enjoy taking walks, biblically accurate depictions of angels, and reading about botanical folklore. If you cannot find them on Twitter, try looking UNDERNEATH THE PERSIMMON TREE.
Shelley Lavigne
Preferred Pronouns: They/them
Hedone Release: Enamoured and The Flesh of the Sea (with Lor Gislason)
Bio: Shelley Lavigne is a fine purveyor of moist literature, usually queer horror. Their stories have appeared in The Dread Machine, Tales to Terrify, If There’s Anyone Left. They've been nominated for a Pushcart. When not writing, they wander their city on the lookout for cool bugs and haunted houses.
You can find them online at shelleylavigne.com
Twitter: shelleysghoul
Instagram: shelley_lavigne
TikTok: shelley_lavigne
Substack: shelleylavigne.substack.com
Dori LumpkinPreferred Pronouns: they/them
Hedone Release: Good Suffering
Bio: Dori Lumpkin is a queer writer and storytelling enthusiast born and raised in South Alabama. They are the author of the novella Antenora, and their short fiction has appeared in Demons and Death Drops, The Deeps, and more. They love all things weird, and especially enjoy lingering on the line between scary and sad. You can find them @whimsyqueen on most social media websites, or visit their website: https://dorilumpkin.carrd.co/