Award-winning author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for nearly fifteen years. Her works include the urban fantasies, Yesterday's Dreams, its sequel, Tomorrow's Memories (Mundania Press), and the upcoming novella, The Halfling’s Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale (Dark Quest LLC), the anthologies, Bad-Ass Faeries, Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad (Mundania Press), and No Longer Dreams, (Lite Circle Books), all of which she co-edited, and contributions to numerous anthologies and collections, including Dark Furies (Die Monster Die! Books), Breach the Hull, (Dark Quest LLC), Space Pirates (Flying Pen Press), and the upcoming science fiction anthologies So It Begins (Dark Quest LLC) and Barbarians at the Jumpgate (Padwolf Publishing).
Danielle is a member of The Garden State Horror Writers, the electronic publishing organization EPIC, and Broad Universe, a writer’s organization focusing on promoting the works of women authors in the speculative genres.
Danielle lives somewhere in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail, mother-in-law Teresa, and three extremely spoiled cats.
- Yesterday's Dreams
Danielle Ackley-McPhailHistory...Legacy...Destiny... Triggered by an act of self-sacrifice, all three converge upon Kara O'Keefe, transforming her simple life into one both magical and menacing. Overwhelmed by the expenses of her father's cancer treatments,... More
- Tomorrow's Memories
Danielle Ackley-McPhailHavoc...Destruction...Revenge… With triumph heavy on their hearts, Kara O'Keefe and the survivors from the battle atop Yesterday's Dreams rush to Ireland and Tír na nÓg, carrying with them a weapon feared by gods and men. There they seek... More
- Bad-Ass Faeries
Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Jeffrey Lyman and Lee C. HillmanClap Your Hands...NOW! Because you better believe the world is full of Bad-Ass Faeries! Toss out your childhood notions of faeries that are all goodness and light. No golden pixies clothed in gossamer, dancing on the wind, here to make the... More
- Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad
Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Lee C. Hillman and Jeffrey LymanDo you like to Dance with Danger? Well now's your chance! Don't worry about things that go bump in the night; count yourself lucky if these fae give you that much warning. In the finest tradition of the original Bad-Ass Faeries, the twenty... More
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Awards
Winner 2007 Dream Realm Award for Best Anthology (Breach the Hull)
Finalist 2007 Dream Realm Award for Best Anthology (Bad-Ass Faeries)
Winner 2009 EPPIE Award for Best Anthology Complete (Fiction) (Bad-Ass
Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad)