J.R. Potter is the author and illustrator of the critically-acclaimed THOMAS CREEPER series about a reluctant mortician's apprentice turned detective for the dead. Booklist calls Potter's debut THOMAS CREEPER AND THE GLOOMSBURY SECRET "marvelously macabre!" The novel won the 2019 Kraken Prize for Middle Grade Fiction and has become a staff pick at libraries across the world from San Jose to Saudi Arabia. The second Gloomsbury mystery THOMAS CREEPER AND THE PURPLE CORPSE hits shelves 6/15/23. Potter's graphic novel work has been published by Image Comics (THE GLIMMER SOCIETY, first appearance in Issues #2 and #3 of VOID TRIP), and his short fiction has been collected in various horror, steampunk, and sci-fi anthologies. Potter's cyberpunk fairy tale RAGTAG: City of Ash and Fire comes out 9/7/23. When not writing about ghosts with unfinished business or teenage heroines with jet packs, Potter writes and illustrates teen fiction for educational publishers Pioneer Valley Books and Heinemann Publishing, helping to boost literacy, empathy, and wonder in schools across the world. For more information, head over to www.jamesrobertpotter.com Thank you for supporting indie creators!