H.L. Brooks writes dark fairy tales with dashes of  sex, romance, erotic short stories, cozy witchy mysteries, and women's literary fiction. Subjects range from star-crossed lovers who change into werewolves, feisty and powerful plus-size witches solving mysteries, to steamy erotic fiction.

H.L. places an emphasis on strong female characters of various ages and body types.  She originally hails from a dead steel mill Pennsylvania town, the daughter of a U.S. Marine Vietnam War veteran and an artsy mother. H.L. is feminist, sex-positive, body-positive, chatty, and is curious about oh just all sorts of things. She also has an affinity for 1970s and 1980s fashion and nostalgia, which is reflected in her stories.

She has a strong interest in photography and art spending the better part of her life drawing, painting, and taking photos. Past projects included fairy themes, erotic art, boudoir photography, body positivity and politics exhibits.

You can read her sensual observations and micro-fiction in the Sensual Sunday series at her blog, where she also muses about life and posts news about upcoming events.

H.L. is the founder of  The Write Women Book Festival,  and The Write Women Network group and author salons for women.

She is a member of Maryland Romance Writers, Maryland Writers' Association, Hampton Roads Writers, Women's Fiction Writers Association, and Pennwriters.

H.L. is a fan of cats, dogs, fun socks, love letters, chocolate, and tequila. She also enjoys old-house living in a small town, isn't sure if ghosts exist--but isn't ruling it out, and is the biggest fan of her editor and partner in all things William C. Hardy. She's also a proud momma and grandmother.

You can find her on Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Pinterest and Twitter as @hlbrookswrites