Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Introducing 2013 MCBF Author, Rachel Caine


Rachel Caine is the internationally bestselling author of thirty novels, including the New York Times and internationally bestselling Morganville Vampires young adult series: Glass Houses, The Dead Girls’ Dance,Midnight Alley, Feast of Fools, Lord of Misrule, Carpe Corpus, Fade Out, Kiss of Death, Ghost Town (2010), Bite Club (2011), Last Breath (2011) and Black Dawn (2012). The Morganville series has also been optioned for film, television and multimedia by prominent British producer Charles Armitage (Red Dwarf).

She also recently concluded the bestselling Weather Warden series: Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor,Windfall, Firestorm, Thin Air, Gale Force, Cape Storm, and Total Eclipse. The Weather Warden universe is continued in a third series, Outcast Season (Undone, Unknown, Unseen, Unbroken).
Rachel has also written paranormal romantic action/adventure for Silhouette Bombshell, and her most recent paranormal romance novel, Athena Force: Line of Sight, was a 2008 RT Reviewer’s Choice award winner. She also published an original novel for the television show Stargate SG-1 (Sacrifice Moon) under the pseudonym of Julie Fortune in 2005. She previously published under the names Roxanne Longstreet and Roxanne Conrad.
Also, Rachel is a contributor to a number of Dallas publisher BenBella Books’ SmartPop anthologies of nonfiction essays, and had short fiction in several bestselling anthologies, including My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, Strange Brew, and Dark and Stormy Knights (St. Martins) as well as Many Bloody Returns (Ace).
Until recently, she was Director of Corporate Communications and member of the Senior Management Team for a large multinational company based in Irving, Texas.  She has a Bachelors degree in business administration from Texas Tech University. Rachel Caine and her husband, award-winning artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Fort Worth, with their two pet iguanas, Popeye and Darwin.
Connect with her on the following social networks:
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