New + Noteworthy
New Thriller coming May, 2025!
Official title and gorgeous cover will be revealed soon!
Check out the announcement in Publishers Marketplace:
COMING SOONER: A vanity-project turned too-cute-not to share! Golly Molly and the Perfect Pony List - a story written to fulfill the promise that Casey made to her children to finally write something she'd actually let them read. Now, they want other kids to read it, too.
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Casey would like to confirm that rhyming for 32 pages is exponentially harder than getting away with murder.
Essays + Interviews
Reading Gillian Flynn's Women (CrimeReads)
Release Week Interview with BookPage
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How to go Beyond your Voice and Make your Novel Shine
Featured Writer on Wellness: Jadie Jones
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A Little Backstory
What's in a name - and why are two author names listed on this website?
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Casey Dunn began her career writing fantasy and chose to publish under a pen name that would honor her grandmother - an incredible literary talent who has devoted her long life to the care and dreams of others, and a good friend's mother, who left this world too soon. Combining their names, Jadie Jones became a published author, and a way to celebrate both life and motherhood, which is also emblematic of the Hightower Series as a whole.
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When Casey moved into the southern gothic suspense genre, she wanted to keep the brands separate (and her southern Baptist grandmother isn't one for crass language or scandalizing scenes,) so she chose to publish her thriller titles under her own name, as she is a fan of both crass language and scandal.
