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Awesome New Authors I Discovered in 2024

Trying to decide on my favourite books of 2024 is too hard, so I'm listing the great new authors I discovered this year instead!

Christina Baehr - with her cozy Victorian fantasy series The Secrets of Ormdale. The series is complete at 5 books, and she's starting on a new series in the same world, set a little bit later.

Mel Harding-Shaw (also Melanie Harding-Shaw) - a New Zealand writer of New Zealand set fantasy, urban fantasy novella Against the Grain and post-apocalyptic fantasy series Soul Court Ascension. So strange (in a good way!) to read books set in places where I've visited/lived.

Linzi Day - her Midlife Recorder series was highly recommended by a number of people, prompting me to give it a try. Very interesting world building.

Jo Segura - Raiders of the Lost Heart was a fun rom-com adventure with an own-voices Latina archeologist with a great cover. I'm looking forward to her next book (out in mid Jan).

Kass O'Shire - starting with a scientifically minded heroine in a fantasy world, her Shades of Sanctuary series is smart fantasy romance with footnotes.

Mary Kingswood - in each book of her Strangers series, a stranger comes to town, hiding mysteries. I read the entire series in a row, I just couldn't stop myself from starting the next book, and then the next... Closed door regency-set romance mysteries, more realistic than most regency-set romances and mysteries.

Matt Dinniman - completely surprised me by finding some of the best books of the year in the game-lit genre (seriously, there are great books in every genre, never dismiss an entire genre out of hand!). The premise of Dungeon Crawler Carl is ridiculous, aliens have turned Earth into a reality show dungeon, where you play or you die. But Carl and his ex girlfriends prize winning cat, Donut, form a great team, and half-way through the first book, I realized this was no longer just frothy (violent) fun, but heart-wrenching (violent) social commentary, with trauma, character growth and a really interesting series arc. Highly recommended.

Li Chen - another New Zealand author, Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat is an adorable middle grade graphic novel. Li Chen is also the author of web comic Exocomics.

Meihan Boey - The Formidable Miss Cassidy seems to start as a standard 'white woman goes to early 20th century Singapore' book, but it's not that type of book at all. Miss Cassidy is more than she seems.

Beth Revis - Full Speed to a Crash Landing is the first of three space opera heist novellas. Apparently, she was initially motivated to write these by spite! These novellas are fun, action packed, with commentary that's getting more pointed in each installment. Can't wait to see how it all ends in April.

Em X Liu - If Found, Return to Hell was a really good urban fantasy novella. A wizard call centre employee goes out of their way to help a caller who has been possessed. Found family.

Itaru Kinoshita - Dinosaur Sanctuary is a realistic manga about dinosaur zoo keepers. One of the dinosaurs had gout!

Have you read any of these authors? What did you think? What awesome new authors did you discover in 2024?

I can't wait to find out what new authors I find in 2025!