W. L. Hawkin writes the kind of books she loves to read from her home in the Pacific Northwest. Because she's a genre-blender, you might find crime, mystery, romance, suspense, fantasy, adventure, and even time travel, interwoven into her stories. If you like "myth, magic, and mayhem" her Hollystone Mysteries feature a coven of West Coast witches who solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. The LGBTQ urban fantasy books-To Charm a Killer, To Sleep with Stones, To Render a Raven, To Kill a King, and To Dance with Destiny-follow Estrada, a free-spirited, bisexual magician and coven high priest as he endeavors to save his family and friends while sorting through his own personal issues. Her latest release, Lure: Jesse & Hawk, was a recipient of a National Indie Excellence Award, a Crowned Heart Review from InD'Tale Magazine, a Gold Reader's Choice Award from E-connections Magazine, and was a finalist in The Wishing Shelf UK Book Awards. Lure is small-town romantic suspense story set in the American Midwest in the fictional town of Lure River and is layered with Indigenous mystery and spirituality.Watch for an upcoming book where she teaches her intuitive writing process. Writing with your Muse: a Guide to Creative Inspiration. Wendy completed a BA in Indigenous Studies at Trent University, and later, Post-Baccalaureate Diplomas in Humanities and a Teaching Certificate at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Fascinated by her Celtic and Tuscarora ancestry, she explores history, myth, and spirituality in her work. She's a published blogger, a regular reviewer with the Ottawa Review of Books, and an Indie publisher with Blue Haven Press. She loves myth and magic, so when she's not writing, she's studying Druidry, shamanism, and mediumship. Although she's an introvert, in each book, her characters go on a journey where she has traveled herself.