Front covers for The Shoemaker's Magician, featuring a tophat, mustache and goatee(?) with Chicago highlights, and for Children of Chicago with paper dolls with Chicago highlights, by Cynthia Pelayo, the Bram Stoker Award-Winning author

Back covers for The Shoemaker's Magician and Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo (paperbacks). The same photo of the author appears on both books. SM features a tophat, mustache, and goatee. CoC features paper dolls. Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award-winning and International Latino Book Award-winning author. Her body of work includes Loteria and Children of Chicago and The Shoemaker's Magician. She holds an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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#VanishingDaughters sounds captivating. I love the horror, history & mystery genres. Can’t wait to get it and read it. #CynthiaPelayo

We break down Cynthia Pelayo’s Vanishing Daughters—grief, murder, fairy tales, and horror collide in a chilling take on Sleeping Beauty. True crime meets the supernatural. Tune in now. Link in bio.
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headshots of cynthia pelato, laura blackwell, maggie tokuda hall, and caroline m yoachim and text overlay about the panel

We have locked in another special event for Locus Awards Weekend, June 18-21, in Oakland! Come attend Drawn to the Dark: Writing the Strange and Beautiful w/ #CynthiaPelayo #LauraBlackwell #MaggieTokudaHall #CarolineMYoachim

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