Laurell K. Hamilton's writing is characterized by vivid prose, erotic sensuality, complex characters, and detailed world building. She is a regular on the New York Times Bestseller List through titles in her two series Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry: Fairy Princess/Private Eye.

The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, published by Penguin Group under the Berkley Books imprint, spans 16 novels,, including Blood Noir, released earlier this year. With over 7 million copies in print worldwide and available in over 17 languages, there is no end in sight for Anita, the professional necromancer and licensed vampire executioner.

Marvel Comics has worked closely with Hamilton to adapt her books in the Anita Blake series into comic book medium with a stunning amount of success. The first installment of the graphic novel, Guilty Pleasures, was released in July 2007 and was the number one best selling graphic novel for that month.  The medium also allowed Hamilton—writing for the first time with her husband, Jonathon Green—to give Anita fans the prequel they have been clamoring for in the form of a special two-issue limited series entitled First Death.

The Meredith Gentry series published by Ballantine Books features Meredith Gentry as a part-human, part-fey private investigator. Under orders from her aunt Andias, Queen of the Unseelie Court, Meredith is in a race to become pregnant and ascend the throne before her cousin Cel does. The cost of failure will be her own life and that of those who follow her.  The next Merry book, Swallowing Darkness, will debut late 2008.

Laurell Hamilton resides in St. Louis County, Missouri, with her husband and partner Jonathon Green, her daughter, Trinity, and their three dogs. For more info on either series or Laurell herself, please visit Laurell's website at www.laurellkhamilton.org or read her blot at blog.laurellkhamilton.org.