K Stanley

Combining her degree in computer mathematics with her success as a bestselling, award-winning author and fiction editor, Kristina Stanley founded Fictionary and is the CEO. Fictionary helps writers and editors create better stories faster with software, an online community, and training. From idea to final draft: Navigate your whole writing journey with powerful story structure software and live guidance from StoryCoach Instructors. Her novels include The Stone Mountain mystery series and Look the Other Way. Her first novel Descent was nominated for the 2014 Arthur Ellis Unhanged Arthur for excellence in crime writing. Blaze was shortlisted for the 2014 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger. The Secrets to Editing Success, Secrets to Outlining a Novel, Secrets to Writing a Series, Secrets to Writing a Fantasy Author’s Guide to Selling Books to Non-Bookstores, and Your Editing Journe are her non-fiction books. Her short stories are published in The Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Voices from the Valleys. Her short story When a Friendship Fails won the Capital Crime Writers award