TJ Perkins Author

TJ Perkins is a gifted and well-respected author in the mystery/suspense genre for young adults and the fantasy genre for teens and children. TJ has published eight young-adult mysteries through GumShoe Press and a five-book fantasy series "Shadow Legacy" with Silver Leaf Books. She published The Healthy Witch with Schiffer in 2019, as well as a pagan picture book in 2015 for ages zero to six, Four Little Witches, which won the 2016 COVR Visionary Art Award. Always a strong presence at Balticon, TJ conducts writer workshops for adults. Her short stories for young readers have appeared in the Ohio State 6th-Grade Proficiency Test Preparation Book, Kid's Highway Magazine, and webzine New Works Review, just to name a few. She's placed five times in the CNW/FFWA chapter book competition. Her short story of light horror for tweens, "The Midnight Watch," was published 2007 by Demon Minds Magazine. Adult short stories include Redemption, The Reading Place anthology (2014), The Sapphire Circle, Dark Luminous Wings (2017), Thief in the Night, FLASH (2017), Perfect Insanity, and Bad Assed Moms anthology (2019), just to name a few.