Sam Muller

Sam Muller loves dogs and books. Ideal combo? Not really - for some of her dogs also love her books. Page edges and spines of old hardbacks for preference – a mystery she hopes to resolve, someday. The dogs in her stories never chew on books. Spooky, the daemon-dog in her first book, helps his human partner Allii uncover the killer of her beloved stepmother. Spooky also gives the novel its tagline: How dangerous it is to live among humans, even for humans. I will Paint the Night, a YA fantasy cum murder mystery, is published by Fractured Mirror Publishing, an all female (and all animal-lover) press. It is the story of Allii (Albalia of Sallonia, 17, unwanted princess, self-trained herbalist) who is framed for her stepmother’s murder. As a reviewer said, Allii has to “brave her family’s history to discover the pain they inflicted on a nation and learn how to undo it.” Sam believes words can help or harm. The choice is ours. Pegala, the world she created, has its share of bad happenings and characters you wouldn’t want to spend a second with, but in the end, animals are saved, children protected, the worst is prevented, and the underdog has a fighting chance. In between finishing her first novel and writing its sequel, Sam also penned many short stories along those lines and even got several published.