Stuck at home? Check out these e-books by Dayton-area authors

Now might be a great time to explore checking out e-books if you haven’t already, and try local authors. I’m excited to share a list of Dayton-area authors with e-books in the Dayton Metro Library system.

(Please note: there are many other Dayton-area authors who have print books, such as poets, or whose books are not available as ebooks at this time. Additionally, I only checked the Dayton Metro Library system, so other area authors, and other titles, may well be available in other library systems.)

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Where available, I’ve also included the authors’ websites, so you can learn more about them and their work.

Here you go — happy reading!

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• Mindee Arnett (www.mindeearnett.com), young adult fantasy, science fiction and horror — "The Nightmare Affair," "Shadow & Flame," "Avalon."

• Heather Blake (www.heatherblakebooks.com), mysteries — "A Witch Before Dying," "It Takes a Witch," "Ghost of a Potion."

• Molly D. Campbell (mollydcampbell.com), literary — "Crossing the Street."

• Linda Castillo (www.lindacastillo.com), mystery — "Shamed," "A Gathering of Secrets," "In Dark Company."

• Allison Dickson (www.allisonmdickson.com), domestic thriller — "The Other Mrs. Miller."

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• Erin Flanagan (erinflanagan.net), short story collection — "It's Not Going To Kill You."

• Tim Gaffney (www.goodreads.com/author/show/83785.Timothy_R_Gaffney), nonfiction and history — "Dayton Beer: a history of brewing in the Miami Valley."

• Cathy Guisewite (www.Cathyguisewite.com), humorous essays — "Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays From the Grown-Up Years."

• Kameron Hurley (www.kameronhurley.com), science fiction — "The Mirror Empire," "Empire Ascendant," "The Light Brigade," "The Stars Are Legion."

• Simon Jacobs (www.simon-jacobs.com), literary dystopian — "Palaces."

• Katrina Kittle (www.katrinakittle.com), adult literary and young adult — "Reasons to Be Happy" (young adult), "Traveling Light," "The Kindness of Strangers," "Reasons to Be Happy," and "Two Truths and a Lie."

• Lorie Langdon (www.lorielangdon.com), young adult novels — "Olivia Twist," "Doon," "Shades of Doon," "Forever Doon," "Destined for Doon."

• Nita Leland (nitaleland.com), nonfiction how-to books on art — "New Creative Collage Techniques: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Original Art Using Paper, Color and Texture: 60 Projects, 62 Artists."

• Jessica Lemmon (www.jessicalemmon.com), romance — "Fighting for Devlin," "Can't Let Go," and numerous other romance novels.

• Kristina McBride (www.kristinamcbride.com), young adult — "One Moment," "The Bakersville Dozen," "A Million Times Goodnight."

• Jess Montgomery (www.jessmontgomeryauthor.com), historical mysteries — "The Widows." (Full disclosure: this is yours truly's pen name!)

• Rachel Eve Moulton (www.rachelevemoulton.com), literary horror – "Tinfoil Butterfly."

• M. Ruth Myers (mruthmyers.com), historical mysteries — "Tough Cookie," "A Touch of Magic," "No Game for a Dame," "Maximum Moxie."

• Leslie Nagel (www.leslienagel.com), mysteries — "The Antique House Murders," "The Advice Column Murders," "The Codebook Murders," "Book Club Murders."

• Helen Klein Ross (www.helenkleinnross.com), literary fiction — "The Latecomers," "What Was Mine."

• Moriel Rothman-Zecher (thelefternwall.com), literary fiction — "Sadness is a White Bird."

• Andrew Seiple, fantasy — “Threadbare.”

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• John Scalzi (whatever.scalzi.com), science fiction — "The Consuming Fire," "Zoe's Tale," "Redshirts," "Agent to the Stars."

• Sharon Short (www.sharonshort.com), humorous mysteries — "Death of a Domestic Diva," "Death by Deep Dish Pie," "Death in the Cards," and others.

• Joanne Smith (www.13thgift.com), memoir — "The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle."

• Jessica Strawser (www.jessicastrawser.com), domestic thrillers — "Not That I Could Tell," "Almost Missed You," "Forget You Know Me."

• T.J. Turner (www.tjturnerauthor.com), alternative historical fiction — "Lincoln's Bodyguard."

• Tim Waggoner (www.timwaggoner.com), science fiction and horror — "Dream Stalkers," "Grimm: The Killing Time," "Resident Evil," "The Final Chapter: The Official Movie Novelization."

• Andrew Walsh, (www.andrewjwalsh.com), local history — "Lost Dayton, Ohio."

• Ann Weisgarber, (annweisgarber.com), literary historical — "The Glovemaker," "The Personal History of Rachel DuPree," "The Promise."

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