Illustration by Luke Spooner of Carrion House.

J.R. Roper is the author of the Morus Chronicles, a fantasy series for middle grade readers. The Hunter Awakens, The Spirit of Steel, The Tower Below, and The Silver Spear are now available along with a collection of short stories titled Mel & the Black Rider. Roper’s work has appeared in Every Day Fiction, Eastern Iowa Review, Coffin Bell Journal, ChildGood Magazine, Families First Monthly, and in anthologies by Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing, Horrified Press, and Thirteen O’Clock Press. His essay, Over The Edge, was published in Imagine This! An ArtPrize Anthology Volume 3, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Awards include a 2017 Children’s Literary Classics Award, 2016 Moonbeam Award for best series, a FOREWORD REVIEWS’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist, a 2015 Children’s Literary Classics Award , 2015 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Award for Children’s Action, and the Best Children’s Novel of 2014: Preditors & Editors Readers’ Poll.

For inquiries, contact me at author at joerroper dot com.