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A NOTE FROM JAMIE
"I grew up devouring dark, romantic stories that treated fantasy as a way to explore real emotions and humanity – grief, longing, loyalty, and most of all love. If it had vampires in it, I'd be there with bells on.
From Buffy to Anne Rice and across the gothic spectrum, every story taught me a little bit more about how human the supernatural world could really be – even at its darkest.
When I write, I try to carry that forward: creating atmospheric, character-driven books where readers can escape, connect, and (hopefully) really feel something."
Jamie Dalton writes contemporary gothic fiction where the supernatural is never quite what it seems – and falling in love won't make it any better.
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With a BA (Hons) in English with Creative Writing and an MSc in Psychology, she crafts stories that explore grief, violence, and all the things that make us human – even if the characters aren't.
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A lifelong devotee of vampire fiction – from Buffy to Anne Rice – Jamie brings her own perspective to the well-trod genre: so long as it's atmospheric, morally all over the place, and refuses the easy answer. Her family roots from Edinburgh to Orkney influence both her storytelling and some of her readers' favourite characters.
Based in Sheffield, UK with her husband, daughter and more books than she has room for, Jamie draws inspiration from the city's unique location and spends much of her time devouring vampire literature, getting lost in unnecessarily accurate historical research, and trying to work out if immortality would actually be much fun.
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The Gloaming is her debut novel and the first in the Blood of the Revenants series. Michael (Book 0.5), a standalone novella in the series, is available here.​