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A review of If You Lie by Caleb Stephens

By Jeanne Davant | November 7, 2024

Olivia Miller claws her way to consciousness. Grabbed by an assailant while she’s on a morning run and strangled until she passes out, she has been stuffed into the trunk of a car. She manages to find a release, pops the lid and jumps out. Olivia takes off running, pursued by her captor who’s armed with a knife and obviously intends to kill her. When she slips and tumbles down an embankment, she thinks she’s a dead woman. But just in time, a police car arrives and shoots the man looming over her.

That’s the way If You Lie, Denver author Caleb Stephens’ third thriller, plunges the reader into Olivia’s story. There is much more terror to come. Read the rest here.

After an apocalyptic novel, Caleb Stephens sought a “straightforward” thriller

The author discovered with “The Girls in the Cabin” that creating human monsters can be even more challenging than imaginary ones!

Read it here!

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I’m excited to announce that I have a new novel on the way. My darkly-humorous urban fantasy novel Soul Couriers will be releasing in summer of 2025 via Dark Matter INK. It was an absolute blast to write. It's one of those books that just flowed. It's ridiculous and funny and full of heart, and I really love how it turned out. Seriously, I can't wait for you to read it.

I was just on The Creatives Getting Coffee Podcast. I really enjoyed chatting about world-eating monsters and writing perseverance with Joey Powell. It was a lot of fun. If you’re up for it, you can listen here.

I recently sat down with the wonderful Brett Mitchell Kent from the Cutthroat Queens Podcast. We chatted about horror books, my upcoming speculative horror thriller novel Feeders from Timber Ghost Press, and life in general. It was a great conversation, so pull up a chair and have a listen here.

So, this is pretty cool. I was recently nominated by a reader in the UK to curate my very first suggested book club list. Let me just tell you, it’s pretty much an impossible ask. There are so many incredible books out there, to even begin to name a few is overwhelming. But I took a shot. These were just a few of my favorites (with a couple of my own thrown in for good measure, of course).

Check it out here!

I chat with the We Bleed Orange and Black podcast about emotional drive-bys, broken characters, night terrors, skin-walkers and slide-rock bolters. It’s an episode you don’t want to miss.

So, I sold a novel to Joffe Books recently. This one is a psychological thriller full of family tension and wilderness survival. It has some serious Misery vibes as well. I’m really excited to get this book out there. I think (hope) the readers are going to enjoy this one.

Check out the announcement on Joffe for more information!

I had the pleasure of spending a few minutes with Antony Frost, who is a wonderful author himself, on his podcast show Terrify Me! Have a listen here. Extra bonus — he speaks in a rich, warm UK accent that is guaranteed to soothe your ears and lower your blood pressure.

I’ve been severely remiss in adding this post. Last month I sat down with cosmic horror author, PL McMillan to chat about my dark fiction collection If Only a Heart and Other Tales of Terror. We had a good time and discussed some of my inspirations for the stories. If you have a few minutes to spare, give it a listen here.