Rachel Caine: Chicks Kick Butt

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CHEYENNE McCRAYhas a passion for writing suspense and urban fantasy novels. Among many other awards, Chey has won the prestigious RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award twice and has had her books nominated four times. A University of Arizona alumnus, Cheyenne McCray has been writing ever since she can remember, back to her kindergarten days, when she penned her first poem. She began to pursue publication seriously after starting her first young adult novel in January 2000. For two years Cheyenne wrote primarily young adult paranormal fiction under a pseudonym. While she loved writing young adult fiction, she found herself wanting to explore adult relationships and started writing paranormal romance and romantic suspense, also branching out to suspense/thrillers and urban fantasy. She has written eleven novels and two novellas for St. Martin’s Press. In 2009 her thrilling new Lexi Steele suspense novels debuted with The First Sin. Then Demons Not Included kicked off her exciting urban fantasy Night Tracker series. Both series debuted to acclaim by readers and reviewers, and landed on multiple bestseller lists. Be sure to go to http://cheyennemccray.com to sign up for her private book announcement list and to get free, exclusive Cheyenne McCray goodies. Please feel free to e-mail her at chey@cheyennemccray.com. She would love to hear from you.

LILITH SAINTCROWis the author of the Dante Valentine, Jill Kismet, and Strange Angels series. She currently resides in Vancouver, Washington, with her children, cats, and assorted other strays.

JEANNE C. STEINis the bestselling author of the urban fantasy series the Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles. Last April, her character, Anna Strong, received an RT Book Reviewers Choice Award for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist. The sixth in the Anna Strong series, Chosen, will be released in August.

ELIZABETH A. VAUGHANis the author of The Chronicles of the Warlands series, Dagger-Star, and Destiny’s Star . She still believes that the only good movies are the ones with gratuitous swords or lasers. Not to mention dragons. At the present, she is owned by two incredibly spoiled cats and lives in the Northwest Territory, on the outskirts of the Black Swamp, along Mad Anthony’s Trail on the banks of the Maumee River.

RACHEL VINCENTis the author of the urban fantasy series Shifters and the young adult Soul Screamers books. Rachel has a BA in English and an overactive imagination, and consistently finds the latter to be more practical. She shares her workspace with two black cats (Kaci and Nyx) and her number one fan. Rachel is older than she looks—seriously—and younger than she feels, but remains convinced that for every day she spends writing, one more day will be added to her lifespan.

RACHEL CAINEis the internationally bestselling author of thirty novels, including the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Morganville Vampires young adult series: Glass Houses, The Dead Girls’ Dance, Midnight Alley, Feast of Fools, Lord of Misrule, Carpe Corpus, and Fade Out, with five more to follow through 2011. She also writes the bestselling Weather Warden series: Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor, Windfall, Firestorm, Thin Air, Gale Force, and Cape Storm . She recently launched a third series, Outcast Season ( Undone, Unknown, Unseen, Unbroken ). She has also published an original novel for the television show Stargate SG-1 ( Sacrifice Moon ) under the pseudonym of Julie Fortune in 2005. She has had short fiction in several bestselling anthologies, including My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, Strange Brew, and Many Bloody Returns . She and her husband, award-winning artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Fort Worth.

Artist, writer, editor, and traveler, KERRIE HUGHESwould also like to be a paranormal investigator and a size 2 but it ain’t gonna happen, so she has dedicated her life to just being a Chick who can Kick Butt without having to be violent. (But she would love to go Cynthia Rothrock on some bad guys and win.) Kerrie has been editing anthologies since 2005, and in addition to Chicks Kick Butt has worked on the following volumes: Love and Rockets, 2010 A Girl’s Guide to Guns and Monsters, 2010 Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies, 2009 Gamer Fantastic, July 2009 Dimension Next Door, 2008 Fellowship Fantastic, 2008 Children of Magic, 2006 Maiden Matron Crone, 2005