John Kachuba is the award-winning author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. His first novel for middle-grade reader, "Haycorn Smith and the Castle Ghost," will be released June 14. John’s most recent work of nonfiction, "Shapeshifters: A History," was published in June 2019 and was a finalist in the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction.