About Us

 About Us

TopShelf2 is a creative duo made up of artist Ginger Hoesly and author Kara Dennison. After a decade of friendship and semi-regular collaboration, it's long past time to "make it official," as it were.

Together, the pair launched the paranormal romance light novel series Owl's Flower, and have since commenced work on the Incidents at Allingham Hall series. While these two series form the core of TopShelf2 (at least for now) look out for other collaborations—or call on them to make something for you!

Ginger Hoesly

Bio coming soon.

Kara Dennison

After a decade in mainstream journalism, Kara Dennison turned her attention to anime and pop culture. Her past experience includes localization for anime and visual novels, before becoming a regular news and features writer for Crunchyroll and Otaku USA. Kara also has bylines at Fanbyte, Mashable, and others, and served as the book reviewer for Sci Fi Magazine during its final years.

Kara's published work includes fiction in the Doctor Who expanded universe, including conceptualizing and writing for the "Hinchcliffe Doctor" for Obverse Books' popular Forgotten Lives charity anthology series. She has also penned stories for the publisher's Iris Wildthyme, Faction Paradox, and City of the Saved franchises, as well as a scholarly monograph on "Heaven Sent" for the award-winning Black Archive book series. Beyond the worlds of Who she has written Sherlock Holmes stories published by Titan Books and Chinbeard Books, as well as being a regular contributor to the many anthologies of 18thWall.

With Paul Driscoll, Kara also oversees Altrix Books, and is one of the creators of The Chronosmith Chronicles.