About CJ Dotson, Dark Speculative Fiction Author

C.J. Dotson is a Northeast Ohio native who now lives with her family upstate New York. She studied English with a creative writing focus at Cleveland State University and now daydreams about having the time and resources to go back to school to study history and mythology instead. She lives in a house that has more shadows than working lights, along with her husband, 9-year-old son, 5-year-old daughter, her grandmother-in-law, and with her teenage stepson over the school breaks. She loves reading sci fi, fantasy, and horror, but will read really anything that catches her eye (her favorite book is none of those genres — it’s The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien). In what spare time she has, C.J. likes to paint and draw (mostly with acrylics and charcoal respectively) and she’s teaching herself to decorate cakes. C.J. is primarily a writer of novels and short stories, and occasionally flash fiction. She loves to write dark genre fiction, and is an active member of the Horror Writers Association C.J. is represented by Chris Bucci at Aevitas Creative Management. Check out her newsletter here. Her twitter handle is @cj_dots, drop by and say hi!

photo credit: Amanda Farrenholz