WRITER MIA DALIA JOINS JJLA
Mia Dalia, an internationally published, Crime Writers Association-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange, has joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Dozens of her short stories have been featured in anthologies, literary journals, magazines, online, and narrative podcasts.
Her new novel, Perforated Sky, is set on a remote island at the edge of the world, where an ancient nightmare has been awakened. Now that the light is going away, can you fight the darkness and survive the endless night beneath the perforated sky?
As an archaeologist by training, Tim Prentice was excited to learn of a new discovery on Paradise Island, touted to rewrite the course of human history. But he hadn’t been a scientist for a long time. In the war-torn, climate-wrecked world, Tim Prentice was lucky to get a janitorial gig at the new research facility. Now, the longer he spends on the island, the more he finds himself descending into madness. Is it the darkness and isolation, or is something eldritch watching him—watching all of them—with a menacing eye and whispering of nightmares to come?
Mia’s work has been selected as one of Tales to Terrify‘s top ten best stories of 2023, shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association’s Short Story Dagger Award 2024, and praised by authors and editors such as Michael Marshall Smith – “One of the best novels I’ve read in years”, Stephen Jones – “horror tour-de-force”, Clay McLeod Chapman – “every flip of the page leads its readers deeper into uneasy dream”, Neil Sharpson, Edward Ashton, M.R. Carey, A.C. Wise, and more.
She is the author of the novels Estate Sale and Haven, novellas Alakazam, Tell Me a Story, Discordant, Arrokoth, Do You Know The Muffin Man? and the collection Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness.
Her upcoming work will be featured by Lethe Press, Earthling Publications, PS Publishing, Crystal Lake Publishing, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and more.
“From the first page I loved this,” said John Jarrold. “The voice, the story, the characters and the setting all drew me in as I read on. Mia has a very special talent. And I love cosmic horror!”