"Thrilling and endearing. Another success." - Kirkus Reviews
Diana Peterfreund
Diana Peterfreund has published seventeen novels for adults, teens, and kids, including the four-book Secret Society Girl series, the “killer unicorn novels” Rampant and Ascendant, For Darkness Shows the Stars (a post-apocalyptic retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion), and Across a Star-Swept Sea (inspired by the classic series The Scarlet Pimpernel). Her middle grade trilogy, Omega City, are contemporary adventure novels for younger readers set in a secret bunker city somewhere under modern Maryland. Her CLUE mysteries were written in partnership with Hasbro to bring the classic board game to life for the modern teen. Her most recent series, Ellen Poe, is a modern paranormal mystery perfect for fans of Enola Holmes or National Treasure.
Her books have been translated into fourteen languages and have been named to the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age list, the Capitol Choices (metro DC-area) reading list, the Texas LoneStar List, and the Sunshine State Young Reader Awards List, as well as having been named to Amazon’s Best Books of the Year. In addition, she’s written dozens of critically acclaimed short stories and a variety of non-fiction essays about popular children’s literature. Diana lives outside Washington D.C., with her family.
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Diana Peterfreund has published seventeen novels for adults, teens, and kids, including the four-book Secret Society Girl series, the “killer unicorn novels” Rampant and Ascendant, For Darkness Shows the Stars (a post-apocalyptic retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion), and Across a Star-Swept Sea (inspired by the classic series The Scarlet Pimpernel). Her middle grade trilogy, Omega City, are contemporary adventure novels for younger readers...
Announcing ELLEN POE, a contemporary paranormal mystery about a teenage girl who finds a coded journal in her family's basement that unlocks a world of adventure, and a few...
The first book in an exciting YA series about a teen girl, descended from Edgar Allan Poe, who must navigate the haunting legacy of her ancestor while learning to harness her own strength and intelligence, especially as she begins to commune with the dead.
What happens when your tell-tale nightmares turn into reality and the ghost of Edgar...
The thrilling sequel to Ellen Poe: The Forgotten Lore in which every mystery Ellen solves uncovers another buried secret about her family and the infamous poet, Edgar Allan Poe.
Ellen is no longer plagued by nightmares of scary, restless spirits, and she’s even come to a truce with the oft-annoying ghost of her ancestor: Edgar Allan Poe. But...
Diana Peterfreund dives deep in this hilarious yet poignant look at the wild world of book publishing, the choices we make in life, and how they can haunt us for years to come... literally. A whole new meaning to ghostwriting...
After having her idea stolen and turned into a blockbuster series by her ex-writing partner, Sutton St. Clair, all...
Join Diana Peterfreund for a discussion of her new book, ELLEN POE: FOR EVERMORE and how Poe's fascination with codes and cryptography has inspired generations of writers at Fountain Books on behalf of the Richmond Poe Museum.
