Candice Marley Conner loves swampy settings and lives with her husband, two children—Mermaid Girl and Dinosaur Boy—and two tiny-but-ferocious tiger-cats at the bottom of Alabama where the antebellum lady rests her feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

The kidlit haint at a haunted indie bookstore and a Local Liaison for SCBWI, Candice is represented by the Jill Grinberg Literary Management. Her work is found in Babybug Magazine and Highlights Hello, and collections such as Mardi Gras Pieces: A Mobile Writers’ Guild Anthology, Under the Full Moon’s Light, Chicken Soup for the Soul and Cabinet of Curiosities which contains a Bea Pearl short story.

About her book:

Sixteen-year-old Bea Pearl knows her brother isn’t dead. Even if her parents don’t agree. Even if the entire town doesn’t believe her. She knows it’s true. When orders came to evacuate Lake George due to rising floodwaters, Bea Pearl saw Jim head toward the river. She followed him. Only she returned.

Bea Pearl’s insistence that Jim is alive and her quest to figure out what happened takes a toll on her shattering family. But she must unearth the truth surrounding her presumed dead brother. Otherwise, the rumors are true and she has killed him. Because if Jim can stop existing, could she too?