Darcy Coates
Australian writer
Darcy Coates is an Australian author of horror, gothic horror, thriller, and suspense.
Career
Coates began self-publishing in 2013 with the novella Once Returned, after which she continued to self-publish novels through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing program. In 2015 Coates published The Haunting of Gillespie House, which sold better than any of her prior works. Sales of her books continued to increase and around 2019, Coates was contacted by Sourcebooks for a book deal. They obtained the rights to her prior titles, which they published through their imprint Poisoned Pen Press.
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