Courtney Alameda

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Courtney Alameda is an American novelist. She is author of the novels Shutter (2015), Pitch Dark (2018), Seven Deadly Shadows (2020; with Valynne E. Maetani), and World of Warcraft: War of the Scaleborn (2023), as well as co-creator of the Sons of Anarchy comic book Sisters of Sorrow.

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Biography

Courtney Alameda was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, [1] daughter of a police officer. [2] She attended Brigham Young University, where she studied creative writing and obtained a degree in English. [3] She also worked at a Barnes and Noble and the Provo City Library, specializing in adult and teen services at the latter. [4]

Alameda made her debut with the 2015 young adult horror novel Shutter, [5] for which she was nominated for the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. [6] In 2018, she published another young adult horror novel, a sci-fi named Pitch Dark; [7] she was a finalist for the 2018 Cybils Award for Young Adult Speculative Fiction for that novel. [8] She and Valynne E. Maetani co-authored Seven Deadly Shadows, a 2020 fantasy horror retelling of the 1954 film Seven Samurai . [9] Silvana Reyes Lopez of Book Riot said: "You cannot not mention Courtney Alameda in a list of YA horror novels." [10]

Alameda co-created the Sons of Anarchy comic book Sisters of Sorrow, which premiered in 2017. [11] She authored World of Warcraft: War of the Scaleborn, a 2023 novelization of the video game's Dragonflight chapter. [12] She wrote a short story for Don't Turn Out the Lights, a collection of tales inspired by Alvin Schwartz. [13]

Alameda is Latina. [10] A resident of Salt Lake City, [14] She is married and owns a Welsh Corgi dog. [1]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ↑ Reviews of this book: [15] [3] [16] [17]
  2. ↑ Reviews of this book: [18] [19] [20]

References

  1. 1 2 "Courtney Alameda". Penguin Random House. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  2. ↑ "The Big Idea: Courtney Alameda". Whatever. February 9, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Loftus, Hikari; Markland, Cecily; Hovley, Margot (March 14, 2015). "3 YA authors spin paranormal, fantasy and horror tales". Deseret News. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  4. ↑ "BIO". Courtney Alameda. Archived from the original on August 25, 2014. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Shutter". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  6. ↑ "2015 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on August 10, 2022. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Pitch Dark". Macmillan. Archived from the original on November 30, 2021. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  8. ↑ "2018 Cybils Awards Finalists". Locus Online . January 3, 2019. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  9. ↑ Dumpleton, Elise (January 24, 2020). "Q&A: Courtney Alameda & Valynne E. Maetani, Authors of 'Seven Deadly Shadows'". The Nerd Daily. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  10. 1 2 Lopez, Silvana Reyes (July 17, 2019). "8 of the Best Horror Novels By Latinx Authors". Book Riot. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  11. ↑ Johnston, Rich (April 19, 2017). "Sons Of Anarchy Creator Kurt Sutter Has A New Comic About Vigilante Nuns, With Courtney Alameda - Sisters Of Sorrow". bleedingcool.com. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  12. ↑ Sheehan, Gavin (June 19, 2023). "Random House Worlds Reveals World Of Warcraft: War Of The Scaleborn". bleedingcool.com. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  13. ↑ "DON'T TURN OUT THE LIGHTS: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark". Kirkus Reviews. Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 14. July 15, 2020. ProQuest   2422650735.
  14. ↑ "Courtney Alameda | Authors". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  15. ↑ Hayes, Summer (October 15, 2014). "Shutter". The Booklist. Vol. 111, no. 4. p. 56. ProQuest   1614167901.
  16. ↑ "Children's Reviews". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 261, no. 53. December 22, 2014. ProQuest   1640343289.
  17. ↑ Shrum, Amanda (2016). "Shutter". Children's Book and Media Review. 36 (4).
  18. ↑ "Children's Reviews". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 266, no. 45. November 11, 2019. ProQuest   2312776490.
  19. ↑ Hartley-Kroeger, Fiona (2019). "Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda" . Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 73 (4): 157–157. doi:10.1353/bcc.2019.0824. ISSN   1558-6766.
  20. ↑ Syed, Mahjabeen (December 1, 2019). "Seven Deadly Shadows". The Booklist. Vol. 116, no. 7. p. 55. ProQuest   2321850669.
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