Alabama Authors Directory

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Daco Auffenorde

Hometown: Huntsville, Alabama Lives in: Huntsville, Alabama

Contact Information

  • Email: dacoauffenorde@comcast.net

Address:

    • 18 Bluff View Dr SE
      Huntsville, Alabama 35803
      United States
  • Phone: (256) 430-6097
  • Preferred Contact Method: Any, Email, Phone

 

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About Daco Auffenorde

Genres: Fiction

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: Daco S. Auffenorde is an award-winning thriller author. Her third book, The Medici Curse, releases July 1, 2025. Her novel, Cover Your Tracks (October 2020), was selected as a Suspense Magazine “Best of 2020” Suspense Thriller and won Action Thriller of the Year with Best Thrillers Book Awards. Lee Child says, “Sensational―new, fresh, suspenseful . . . I loved this book.” Her psychological thriller, The Forgotten Girl (August 2022) won the Book of the Year with Best Thriller Book Awards. Daco’s …Read More works also appear in several anthologies, including her Jordan Jakes short story The Virgo Affair in the Killer Nashville Noir: Cold-Blooded. Her debut The Libra Affair (April 2013), a Jordan Jakes novel, was a #1 Amazon Bestseller. She is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Authors Guild, Novelist, Inc., Women’s Fiction Writers Association, Alabama Writers Forum, and Alabama State Bar.

Works: The Medici Curse (Penzler Publishers/Scarlet Imprint, July 1, 2025)
The Forgotten Girl (Inkubator Books, August 2022)
Cover Your Tracks (Turner Publishing/Keylight Imprint, October 2020)
Electromancer (S&S/F+W Media, Inc./Crimson Romance, January …Read More 2016)
Killer Nashville Noir: Cold-Blooded (Diversion Books, October 2015) includes my short story The Virgo Affair
The Prometheus Saga: A Science Fiction Anthology (includes my short story The Pisces Affair (September, 2015)
The Libra Affair (S&S/F+W Media, Inc., Crimson Romance, April 2013)

Awards: COVER YOUR TRACKS:
2020 Best of Suspense Thriller with Suspense Magazine
2021 Action Thriller of the Year with Best Thriller Book Awards
Finalist with Feathered Quill Book Awards
THE FORGOTTEN GIRL:
2023 Book of the Year with Best Thriller Book …Read More Awards
KILLER NASHVILLE NOIR: COLD-BLOODED (includes my short story, The Virgo Affair)
Multi-award winning anthology. Includes USA REBA Winner; NIEA Finalist; Beverly Hills Book Awards Finalist
ELECTROMANCER:
2016 Gold medal (first place) for Best of Fantasy/Contemporary with Global Ebook Awards
THE PISCES AFFAIR:
PW Pick of the Week
Royal Palm Literary Award Winner
Shelf Unbound Notable 100
2015 Gold Medal, Thriller Fiction, Global Ebook Awards
2015 Gold Medal, Science Fiction, Global Ebook Awards

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