author of celtic, medieval, gothic and fairytale inspired fiction
Author: staceyjaine
Stacey Jaine McIntosh is a USA TODAY Bestselling Author who hails from Perth, Western Australia where she resides with her husband and their four children.
While her heart has always belonged to writing, she once toyed with being a Cartographer and subsequently holds a Diploma in Spatial Information Services.
When not with her family or writing she enjoys reading, photography, genealogy, history, Arthurian myths and witchcraft.
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If you live and breathe paranormal romance, speculative fiction, or fantasy — come say hi. Drop your links, plug your latest project, tell me what you’re working on.
I’m here to follow, share, connect.
I’m a paranormal romance author with a soft spot for witches, fangs, and all things that go bump in the night. If that’s your vibe too, let’s link up.
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If you live and breathe paranormal romance, speculative fiction, or fantasy — come say hi. Drop your links, plug your latest project, tell me what you’re working on.
I’m here to follow, share, connect.
I’m a paranormal romance author with a soft spot for witches, fangs, and all things that go bump in the night. If that’s your vibe too, let’s link up.
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If you live and breathe paranormal romance, speculative fiction, or fantasy — come say hi. Drop your links, plug your latest project, tell me what you’re working on.
I’m here to follow, share, connect.
I’m a paranormal romance author with a soft spot for witches, fangs, and all things that go bump in the night. If that’s your vibe too, let’s link up.
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If you live and breathe paranormal romance, speculative fiction, or fantasy — come say hi. Drop your links, plug your latest project, tell me what you’re working on.
I’m here to follow, share, connect.
I’m a paranormal romance author with a soft spot for witches, fangs, and all things that go bump in the night. If that’s your vibe too, let’s link up.
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There’s a certain kind of story that stays with you long after you finish it.
The kind with characters who are a little broken, a little hopeful, and trying to survive worlds that don’t make things easy for them. Stories filled with magic, impossible choices, quiet grief, stubborn love, and the moments that change people forever.
That’s exactly why I’m excited to be part of this book bundle.
Inside, you’ll find stories from multiple authors featuring unforgettable heroines, emotional journeys, fantasy worlds, romance, danger, resilience, and all the things that keep us turning pages way too late at night.
My books The Winter Princess and Dandelions are included in the collection, alongside so many other amazing reads. If you love stories with atmosphere, emotion, and characters that feel real even in impossible situations, there’s a very good chance you’ll discover a new favourite here.
One of my favourite things about bundles like this is the chance to find authors you might never have stumbled across otherwise. Some books will break your heart a little. Some will heal it. Some will make you want to stay in their worlds forever.
That’s the magic of reading, honestly.
So whether you’re looking for your next fantasy obsession, an emotional read that lingers, or simply a stack of new books to escape into, this collection has something waiting for you.
If you live and breathe paranormal romance, speculative fiction, or fantasy — come say hi. Drop your links, plug your latest project, tell me what you’re working on.
I’m here to follow, share, connect.
I’m a paranormal romance author with a soft spot for witches, fangs, and all things that go bump in the night. If that’s your vibe too, let’s link up.
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red hair charming woman is lying on the grass in a wonderful emerald dress with a long train. turquoise grass under the frost. looking at the flower made of moon light. glares on the photo.
There’s a moment in almost every story I write where things stop being simple.
Where the line between right and wrong blurs. Where love isn’t soft or easy or safe. Where survival starts to cost something.
That’s usually the point where people ask—why go there?
Why not keep it lighter? Easier? Kinder?
Why paranormal romance… and why let it get dark?
The honest answer is: because that’s where the truth is.
Not the literal truth—wolves and fae and magic slipping through the cracks of the world—but the emotional kind. The kind that sits underneath everything. The kind that doesn’t always have neat edges or happy endings wrapped in a bow.
Writing, for me, has always been an escape.
So has reading.
A way to step sideways out of the world and into something quieter. Something that makes more sense. Something I can control.
I’ve spent a lot of my life in stories—sometimes because I wanted to be, sometimes because I needed to be. And if I’m being honest, I suspect a lot of that ties into the way my brain works. The way I process things. The way I’ve always felt just slightly out of step with everything around me.
Stories gave me a place where that didn’t matter.
Or maybe more accurately—they gave me a place to understand it.
And I think that’s why my characters end up the way they do.
Scarlett and Zooey both carry pieces of me.
Zooey came from the earlier parts of my life—the questions, the structure, the push and pull between what you’re taught to believe and what doesn’t quite sit right.
Scarlett is something else.
Another version of me, in a different shape. Harder. Sharper. Less willing to bend. The kind of character that takes everything that hurt and refuses to let it define her quietly.
Writing her wasn’t easy.
But it was… cathartic.
Because paranormal romance gives me space to explore all of that.
To take the things we don’t always say out loud—grief, anger, survival, identity—and push them just far enough into the unreal that we can actually look at them.
Because it’s easier, sometimes, to understand a girl who doesn’t belong in either world than it is to unpack what it feels like to not quite belong in your own life.
It’s easier to talk about monsters when they have fangs.
But the darkness in these stories isn’t there for shock value. It’s not there just to make things dramatic or intense.
It’s there because darkness shapes people.
It forces choices.
It reveals who someone is when everything else is stripped away.
And love—real love, the kind worth writing about—doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It exists in the middle of all of that. Messy. Complicated. Sometimes fragile. Sometimes fierce enough to survive things it probably shouldn’t.
That’s the version of romance that interests me.
Not perfect people finding each other at the perfect time.
But broken, complicated people standing in the aftermath of everything they’ve been through and choosing something anyway.
Choosing to stay.
Choosing to fight.
Choosing to feel.
Even when it would be easier not to.
I think that’s why I keep coming back to these kinds of stories.
The ones where magic doesn’t fix things—it complicates them.
Where the past doesn’t stay buried.
Where survival isn’t the end of the journey… just the beginning of something harder.
Because those are the stories that feel real to me.
The ones that ask not just what if magic exists?
But what if you had to live with the consequences of it?
And somewhere in all of that—between the shadows and the choices and the things that refuse to stay buried—that’s where the Eldritch Universe took shape.
That’s where the Eldritch Universe took shape.
If you want to step into that world, you can start with Zooey’s story HERE, or meet Scarlett HERE.
Anzac Day. It’s a national day of remembrance held every year on April 25th
It stands for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps And commemorates all the Australian and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts and peace keeping missions and was originally devised to honour those who had served in the Gallipoli Campaign, the first engagement of World War 1. (1914-1918)
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
We made it to the Dawn Service this year—so it feels like the perfect time to share a recipe for Anzac biscuits. And yes, biscuit, not cookie.
ingredients
1 cup plain flour
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup coconut
125 g butter
2 tbs golden syrup
1 tbs water
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
method
Sift the flour into a bowl. Add sugar, rolled oats and coconut.
Melt butter in a saucepan, then add golden syrup and water.
Stir the bicarbonate of soda into the liquid mixture.
Add liquid to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
Place walnut-sized balls of mixture on a greased tray and bake at 170 degrees Celsius for 12 minutes.
Biscuits will harden once cool.
For those of you reading this blog post and thinking: but I don’t have/can’t get my hands on any golden syrup there are substitutes, like honey, corn syrup and molasses.
Click here for more information about those substitutes and others that you can use in place of golden syrup.
For years, this story lived quietly with me — in messy drafts, late-night notes, and the stubborn voice of a girl who refused to be softened.
Today, she belongs to you.
And there’s a strange moment when a book stops being something you’re shaping and becomes something that exists without you.
Drafts, edits, proofs — all the versions where it still feels like it belongs to you.
And then suddenly, it doesn’t.
When I first imagined Scarlett, I didn’t start with magic.
I started with a question:
What if your mother was fey and your father was a wolf shifter?
What would that make you?
Not fully fey.
Not fully wolf.
Not fully welcome in either world.
And then there was the image I couldn’t shake — a dandelion pushing up through pavement.
Because that’s the heart of this story.
Something that should not have survived… growing anyway.
No softness. No permission. Just life forcing its way through what was meant to hold it down.
Scarlett was never meant to be a pawn.
She was shaped instead by grief, trauma, and a childhood that ended too early.
Magic didn’t save her.
It complicated everything.
It sharpened what was already there — anger, doubt, and a need to survive on her own terms.
Writing her became about more than a girl navigating two worlds.
It became about choice. About agency. About what it means to exist in a life that tries to define you before you even understand yourself.
And survival, for Scarlett, comes down to one moment.
The night she pulled the trigger on the man who raised her.
The world called it murder.
She called it survival.
After that, there is no version of her story that goes quietly.
Juvenile detention should have been the end of it.
A place where everything narrowed down until there was nothing left.
But what came after doesn’t care what she has already endured.
Not when wolves and fae were never meant to mix.
Not when Ash Grayson is still there — the boy who was meant to keep her safe.
Now he watches her like something slipping out of reach, carrying guilt he can’t put down.
But Scarlett doesn’t belong to anyone anymore.
Not the courts.
Not the pack.
Not him.
Because what she’s learned is not how to survive.
It’s how to stay standing when survival is no longer enough.
DANDELIONS is about resilience.
About what grows in places it was never meant to survive.
About what pushes through anyway — through cracks, through pressure, through everything built to keep it down.
I called it Dandelions because that’s what this story is.
Something that refuses to stay gone.
Something that always comes back.
Thank you for being here on release day.
Thank you for stepping back into the Eldritch Universe with me, where wild things are blooming.
One does simply not write without an outline… or do they?
Yes. They absolutely do.
I used to believe every story needed a meticulous roadmap. Color-coded notes. Character sheets. Timelines. Chapter breakdowns. I would spend weeks outlining, rearranging plot points, perfecting backstories no reader would ever see. By the time I finally started drafting, I was exhausted. Worse—I was bored. I’d already told myself the story.
Now, I spend far less time outlining and far more time writing. And for me, that shift has made all the difference.
Writing without an outline doesn’t mean beginning with nothing. It doesn’t mean wandering blindly across a blank page, hoping something coherent appears. It simply means beginning with something small. A spark instead of a blueprint. A question instead of a map.
For me, that spark often comes in the form of a what if.
What if Belle wasn’t the beauty in the fairytale—but the beast?
That single question became the foundation for my short story Stealing Beauty, published in 2019 by Iron Faerie Publishing in their FABLE anthology. I didn’t start with a three-act structure. I started with tension. With inversion. With curiosity. And as I followed that thread, scene by scene, the story revealed itself.
That same approach works for novels, too.
The idea for my forthcoming novel, Dandelions, began with an image: a yellow dandelion pushing stubbornly up through the grass beneath a wrought iron fence. Something fragile forcing its way into a place it wasn’t meant to grow. Something bright in a space meant to contain it.
My children used to love making wishes on dandelions when they were little. They’d close their eyes, blow the seeds into the air, and believe with their whole hearts that something magical might happen.
There’s story in that. Hope. Confinement. Resilience. Wishes. Loss. Memory.
I didn’t outline a plot first. I followed the feeling.
That’s the beauty of starting small. A single image. A single question. A single moment heavy with possibility. From there, you ask more questions. You explore consequences. You let characters react. You allow the story to surprise you.
Some writers thrive on detailed outlines. They build cathedrals before laying the first stone. And that’s wonderful.
But others—myself included—build as they go. We discover the shape of the cathedral while standing inside it.
Writing inspiration comes from anywhere: a childhood memory, a passing comment, a photograph, a fairytale turned sideways. You don’t need a long, elaborate outline before you begin. You need curiosity. You need momentum. You need permission to start before you feel fully ready.
Sometimes the best way to find your story is simply to begin writing it.
If you live and breathe paranormal romance, speculative fiction, or fantasy — come say hi. Drop your links, plug your latest project, tell me what you’re working on.
I’m here to follow, share, connect.
I’m a paranormal romance author with a soft spot for witches, fangs, and all things that go bump in the night. If that’s your vibe too, let’s link up.
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St. Patrick’s Day rolls around every year and suddenly everything turns green.
Shamrocks. Hats. Rivers. Beer.
And if you’ve spent any time reading Irish mythology—or writing it like I have—you start noticing something interesting.
The stories people know about Ireland?
They aren’t always the real ones.
Take the famous legend: St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland.
Great story.
Except Ireland never actually had snakes.
None.
Which means the story probably wasn’t about snakes at all.
Most historians believe the “snakes” were symbolic. A way of talking about the older pagan beliefs of Ireland fading as Christianity spread across the country.
Now whether that’s completely true or not…
That’s a debate for historians.
But here’s the interesting part.
Ireland never actually lost its mythology.
It just learned to live beside Christianity.
Ireland Did Something Different
Look at the history and you’ll see it.
Holy wells that used to belong to old gods suddenly connected to saints.
Ancient sacred sites with churches built right on top of them.
Stories about the Sídheand the faethat people still whisper about… even while going to Mass on Sunday.
Ireland didn’t erase its mythology.
It layered it.
And honestly?
That’s part of what hooked me.
Why Irish Mythology Shows Up in My Writing
If you’ve read the Eldritch series, you’ve probably noticed something.
Irish mythology is everywhere in it.
That wasn’t originally the plan.
But once I started digging into Celtic folklore, I got stuck there.
The fae.
The courts.
The strange overlap between the human world and the Otherworld.
It’s perfect for paranormal romance.
Because the whole genre runs on one simple question.
What if?
What if the stories weren’t just stories?
What if the things whispered in old folklore never actually disappeared?
And what happens when someone human ends up caught in the middle of it?
Zooey’s Problem
Zooey—the main character in the Eldritch series—grew up Irish Catholic.
Her dad made sure of that.
Faith. Structure. Rules.
But Irish culture has always had this strange duality.
Religion on one side.
Folklore on the other.
And sometimes the two overlap in ways that get… messy.
You can grow up believing in saints.
And still know not to mess with certain hills.
Zooey lives right in that space.
Between what she was raised to believe and the reality of a world that’s a lot older—and a lot stranger—than she ever imagined.
And once that door opens?
There’s no closing it again.
The Thing About Irish Stories
Irish mythology has always leaned a little darker.
The fae aren’t cute.
They’re dangerous.
Deals have consequences.
And love stories?
Well…
They tend to get complicated.
Which makes them perfect for paranormal romance.
Because the best stories happen when the human world and the supernatural world collide.
Preferably in the worst possible way.
If you want to see what that collision looks like in the Eldritch world, you can start here:
If you live and breathe paranormal romance, speculative fiction, or fantasy — come say hi. Drop your links, plug your latest project, tell me what you’re working on.
I’m here to follow, share, connect.
I’m a paranormal romance author with a soft spot for witches, fangs, and all things that go bump in the night. If that’s your vibe too, let’s link up.
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If your TBR pile isn’t tall enough already, I’m about to make it worse (you’re welcome 😄).
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been in a full-on escape into another world mood lately. The real world? Overrated.
Give me magic, danger, romance, and a little supernatural chaos any day.
So of course I went hunting for new reads… and I have these to share with you.
If you love paranormal romance, fantasy worlds, magical adventures, or bingeable box sets, keep reading.
This first one is basically a treasure trove if you’re into witches, shifters, vampires, fae, sci-fi romance — all the good stuff.
You can browse all the featured titles here and… BUY THEM NOW!
Now if you’re less of a sampler and more of a “hand me the whole series so I can disappear for three days” reader… this one’s for you.
There’s something deeply satisfying about downloading an entire series at once. No cliffhanger wait. No “Book 2 releases next year” heartbreak. Just story after story ready to go.
You can browse all the featured titles here and… BUY THEM NOW!
Clear your schedule accordingly and happy reading!
