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Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell has always been fascinated with the darker side of things. Staying up late, alone, as a child to catch the Creature Feature on television. When Laurell was 13, she discover a short story collection titled "Pigeons from Hell". "It was the first heroic fantasy I'd read. It was fights, swords, monsters I decided not only did I want to become a writer, it was this I wanted to write". She chanced upon another book in the high school library " The Natural History of the Vampire". She read it so many times she nearly memorized it. When it's suggested that her choice of creepy films and stories were unseemly when her friends' companions were dolls: "I wasn't like most girls" she said.

Laurell does not shy away from sex or violence in her books. "I was a kiss to be so believable it give the reader shivers. Two things I do well are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence is only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot, world building or character development. Everyone [in the book] has someone to lust after, but Anita is like me. She doesn't see herself as a lust object."

Laurell K. Hamilton resides in St. Louis County in Missouri with her family.

Laurell's Favorite Vampire Movies Dracula 1931 Near Dark 1987 The Lost Boys 1987 Dracula 1979 Fright Night 1985 My Best Friend is a Vampire1994 Interview with a Vampire1994 Love at First Bite 1979 Count Dracula 1974 Vampire Circus 1971

Laurell's Favorite Vampire Books The Illustrated Vampire Vampire Book Melton - an encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Death -Avon reference The Cemetery Book Voodoo in Haiti Symbolic and Mythological Animals Some information for this biography were taken from a St. Louis Post Dispatch Newspaper interview in 1996.

Laurell K. Hamilton is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two series that mix mystery, fantasy, magic, horror and romance. Her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels from Berkley Books began with GUILTY PLEASURES (now a hugely successful graphic novel from Marvel - the first sexy paranormal comic ever!) and continues with the THE HARLEQUIN , number fifteen in the series, in which Anita's complex personal and professional relationships with a master vampire and an alpha werewolf continue to evolve. There are now more than 6 million copies of Anita in print worldwide, in 16 languages. Hamilton's Ballantine series features Fey princess and private investigator, Merry Gentry and there are now five novels exceeding one million copies in print. A LICK OF FROST, the sixth in the series debuted October 23, 2007. She lives in St. Louis County Missouri with her husband Jonathon Green, daughter, two pug dogs and one boxer/pug dog. She invites you to visit her website and message board at www.laurellkhamilton.org or catch her on MySpace at www.myspace.com/laurellkhamilton.

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