Awards
2024 Patterson Prize for Books for Young People, Winner, My Heart is Hurting
2024 Semi-Finalist Book Blogger of the Year Awards (on-going), My Heart is Hurting
2024 Adim: Four Walls Contest, Winner, The Thing About Bars
2024 The Writer’s Workout Fiction Potluck, 2nd Place Winner, It Looks Better On You
2023 Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal Winner, My Heart is Hurting
2023 Pushcart Prize Nominee, Summer Love Spell
2022 Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest, Everything She Heard was a Lie
2022 Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest, The Only Fairy Living in the Sea
S.E. Reed
S.E. Reed is an award-winning multi-genre author. She grew up in the Pacific Northwest, but longed to see the rest of America. After living in all five regions, she finally settled in Florida–nestled between the swampy Everglades and Atlantic Ocean. Many of her stories have a strong contemporary southern theme, but she also dabbles in the strange, bizarre, and fantastical.
As a busy wife and mom of three, S.E. enjoys being a member of the 5am writer’s club, when the house is still dark and quiet. Unless her little dog is pestering her for a sip of coffee and a biscuit. S.E. is obsessed with electronic music (she loves reminding her kids she was a DJ in college) so she’s always wearing headphones while she writes.
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Jinny Buffett is lonely…
She’s never had the comfort of a white picket fence with a loving family. Her subsidized apartment in Hollywood Florida echoes with the void of her dead Daddy, and the nights drag long into twilight while her Mama works the block outside the Margaritaville resort.
It’s idealistic Ms. Fleming, who’s brave enough to come knocking first. She wants to see Jinny rise up and use her ace scores to escape the wheel of poverty, convincing Jinny to start a school book club, where she finds the friends and boyfriend she never knew she needed.
But when her Mama spirals out of control and threatens her entire existence, it’s Jinny’s Everglade ancestors who arrive in a mist of magic, bringing the swamp and hope with them.
“I don’t care! I am NOT moving to Florida.”
Parent’s nasty divorce – Check
Dead relatives – Check
Moving 1,800 miles to the middle of nowhere – Check, Check, Check
Teen socialite Rian Callusa knows her privileged New York life is over as they drive down a backwoods road toward her new home. But instead of pulling up to a dusty shack, her jaw drops when her Mom parks in front of a stylish mansion. Maybe she doesn’t know as much about her Mom as she thought.
While Rian spends time in the Everglades with her cousins, Travis and Sam, and falls head over heels for vintage-loving Justine, she learns it isn’t just her Mom keeping secrets. They’ve all got secrets too. Until one fateful night, the dark, murky waters of the swamp decide to tell the story about what really happened on Old Palmetto Drive.
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Grace Everly might be a lot of things: podcaster, K-popster, sort-of-popular girl at Richmond Hill High in southern Georgia. But let’s get one thing straight, she is NOT friends with Gloria Sanchez. So when Gloria goes missing and the only clue leads back to Grace, tensions run high! Especially since the police can’t get it through their thick skulls that Grace had nothing to do with Gloria’s disappearance.
Then Seth, Grace’s boyfriend, goes missing, putting an even bigger target on her–and she starts experiencing stress-induced flashbacks of a kidnapping scene right out of some campy horror flick. The kind her and her friends spoof on their weekly podcast.
Confused and angry aren’t a great mix of emotions–but they fuel Grace into unlocking her memories. Armed with new clues, Grace and her friends race against time to find Gloria and Seth before the rotten-faced man from her memories turns Richmond Hill into a real-life horror movie, one they can’t spoof on their podcast.
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