Kelly Hale

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Kelly Hale is an American author who lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, a magical land of great espresso and Powell's City Block of Books. Her first novel was the e-book Erasing Sherlock Holmes, which mixed Sherlock Holmes with a time-travel plot. Her next novel, co-written with Simon Bucher-Jones, was the BBC Books Doctor Who novel Grimm Reality. Her most recent short story publication was in the collection Modern Magic: Tales of Fantasy And Horror.[1]

Her Faction Paradox novel Erasing Sherlock, a re-working of Erasing Sherlock Holmes, was published in December 2006 after being rejected by TOR because it didn't neatly fit onto any particular genre shelf.^{[source needed]}