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Deborah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Deborah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Deborah Sheldon’s Followers (279)
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Deborah Sheldon
Goodreads Author
Born
in Melbourne, Australia
Website
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Member Since
September 2009
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/deborahsheldon
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Cretaceous Canyon
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Devil Dragon
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2016
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3 editions
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Thylacines
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2018
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2 editions
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Dark Waters
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2014
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8 editions
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Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories With Bite
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2023
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3 editions
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Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies
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Man-Beast
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Body Farm Z
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Perfect Little Stitches: and Other Stories
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2017
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4 editions
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Ronnie and Rita
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2013
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2 editions
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NIGHTMARE REEF is shortlisted for an Aurealis Award!
I'm thrilled to say that my novel Nightmare Reef (Severed Press) is shortlisted for the Aurealis "Best Horror Novel" Award!
You can see the full 2025 Aurealis Awards Shortlist here:
https://aurealisawards.org/2026/02/01...
The winners will be announced on Saturday 21 February 2026.
Back-cover blurb for Nightmare Reef:
The ocean is vast. The danger is ancient. And nowhere is safe.
For the Wagner family, Read more of this blog post »
You can see the full 2025 Aurealis Awards Shortlist here:
https://aurealisawards.org/2026/02/01...
The winners will be announced on Saturday 21 February 2026.
Back-cover blurb for Nightmare Reef:
The ocean is vast. The danger is ancient. And nowhere is safe.
For the Wagner family, Read more of this blog post »
Deborah’s Recent Updates
"Another fantastic anthology from Inky Bones Press!!!! So much variety in the stories. Something for everyone who enjoys horror. I love short stories, and I enjoyed taking this book around with me and reading it while waiting for appointments. A perfe"
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"I do have a short story inside, but it's one amongst 44 (forty-four!!!) others, so I'd be remiss if I didn't gush about how amazing this book is just a little.
Of Beasts & Bones is absolutely fantastic! I can't tell how you many times I finished readi" Read more of this review » |
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"Each of these stories describes a new unimagined horror! If you think you have read every creature horror story, think again. All of these authors are ridiculously talented, and I was blown away by each one. I think my favorite story was Courting the"
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Deborah Sheldon
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4 other people
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Cameron Trost's review
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Nightmare Reef: A Deep Sea Thriller:
"The adventure begins with the Wagners setting out from Port Phillip Bay, Australia, headed for San Francisco, but if you think this is a tale of smooth sailing, you don't know Deborah Sheldon... Oh, and anyway, the title and cover should have been en"
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Wise guys operating out of your father's candy store? That sounds pretty terrifying to me! I'm partial to Sicily too, mostly because of silly romantic
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Deborah Sheldon
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| I'm a short-story aficionado. My bookshelves groan under the weight of anthologies and collections, ranging in genre from literary to crime to horror, and more. I also love writing short stories, with many credits to my name and a few award nods. But ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Horror Aficionados :
June 2018 Group Read Nominations
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102 | 253 | May 18, 2018 01:04PM | |
| Around the World ...: Bianca's 2018 & 2019 (Tourist) | 29 | 93 | Jun 24, 2019 07:36PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : What Have You Read - 2020 | 629 | 396 | Jan 01, 2021 01:34PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : Track the Books You've Read: 2020 | 41 | 419 | Jan 27, 2021 02:32PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : 2021-Track the Books You've Read! | 41 | 306 | Jan 01, 2022 06:55AM | |
| Horror Aficionados : ABC Words Associated with Horror (including well-known authors' last names and famous characters) | 1537 | 445 | May 16, 2022 07:44AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: June 2022 Ugly Once a Month (Pretty the Rest of the Time) | 66 | 39 | Aug 12, 2022 07:59AM | |
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Crazy Challenge C...:
Murder Mystery
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1639 | 188 | Sep 25, 2022 09:42PM |
“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.”
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“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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