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The Weird Girl

“Character-driven fiction with heart, guts, and grit.” —Literary Titan 5-star Review

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The Orchid Tattoo

Winner of the 2023 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Winter Competition; Winner of the 2023 Literary Titan Book Award; First Place Winner of the 2023 Firebird Book Award (Crime Fiction Category); Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for Suspense

Crime fiction that makes a difference: in The Orchid Tattoo, award-winning author Carla Damron delves into the disturbing world of human trafficking.

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Justice Be Done: A Caleb Knowles Mystery

Winner of the January 2024 Literary Titan Silver Book Awards!

A hate crime sparks protests.
Protests erupt into riots.
Downtown becomes a war zone.

Will justice prevail?

The Stone Necklace

The Stone Necklace named a 2017 STAR AWARD winner by the Women’s Fiction Writers Association.

Carla Damron Bio

Carla Damron believes fiction can make a difference. A social worker, advocate, and author of suspense, women’s fiction, and mysteries, Damron uses her writing to put a human face on issues like drug abuse, mental illness, and human trafficking. She’s won multiple literary awards, including the Women’s Fiction Writers Association Star Award for Best Novel and the NIEA award for best suspense. In her novel The Orchid Tattoo, Damron used suspense to spotlight the many forms of human trafficking and its impact on her home state of South Carolina. The sequel to this novel, The Weird Girl, picks up where Orchid left off—examining Tessa’s new life as a survivor of past traumas while social worker Georgia Thayer tackles the ravages of the fentanyl epidemic spreading across Columbia, SC.

Damron holds an MSW and an MFA in Creative Writing and teaches with Writers.com. Currently the VP for the Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, she lives in South Carolina with her husband and their family of entitled rescue animals.

Carla Damron

Social worker, Advocate and Author

What Readers Say

In The Stone Necklace, Carla Damron takes full ownership of Columbia, South Carolina, in a way no writer ever has, capturing the flawed soul of the historic capital city as the weight of its past still hangs albatross-like on the throat of the present. Damron’s masterful portrayal of misery giving way to empathy leads us toward a glimmering hope of redemption for families and a community on the cusp of bold rebirth. This a novelist to be read again and again.

In The Orchid Tattoo, Carla Damron creates that rare, superpowered thriller where a page-turning reading experience sheds important light on social justice. Georgia Thayer is a gem of a lead character — smart, sensitive, strong in her own struggles, driven to help others. I’d follow her wherever she goes next.

“This unputdownable book is not just exciting suspense, but a commentary on the attitudes that divide people, no matter where they live… As she does in most of her novels, the author, a social worker herself, weaves compassion through the pages to make the reader think about hard issues, without ever preaching or forgetting that readers like to be entertained. A winner on all fronts!”