ROXANNE CONRAD has published more than thirty novels, including (as Rachel Caine) the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Morganville Vampires series, as well as the popular Weather Warden and Outcast Season series. She is also a contributor to several bestselling anthologies. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband, fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad.
“Wimpy” Gothic novel heroines sent CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS on a sixty-novel mission of creating strong women protagonists in genres from science fiction and fantasy to historical and contemporary-set mystery and romance. “The first woman” in several journalism areas while reporting for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, she became the first author to use a woman from the Sherlock Holmes stories as a protagonist, with the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Good Night, Mr. Holmes. Whether her woman characters have paranormal powers like Delilah Street, or run on brains and nerve like Irene Adler, they all enjoy being girls and showing the boys how it’s done. Publishers Weekly starred reviews for Dancing with Werewolves and Brimstone Kiss launched the Delilah Street noir urban fantasy series, which is set in an apocalyptic Las Vegas vastly different from the contemporary Vegas of Douglas’s long-running Midnight Louie feline PI cozy-noir series.
P. N. ELROD writes and edits, and is best known for The Vampire Files, where Bobbi Smythe hangs out with her undead boyfriend, vampire PI Jack Fleming. Elrod is a hopeless chocolate addict and cheerfully refuses all efforts at intervention. More about her toothy titles may be found at www.vampwriter.com .
NANCY HOLDER is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked series (with coauthor Debbie Viguie). Crusade: Damned, the second book in their new series, Crusade, will be out in August 2011. The first book of their new series, Unleashed: The Wolf Springs Chronicles, will debut in January of 2012. She is also the author of the young adult horror series, Possessions. The Screaming Season, third in the series, hit the shelves in March 2011. She lives in San Diego with her daughter, Belle, and their corgis, Panda and Tater, and two very hairy cats named David and Kittnen Snow Vampire.