Slayer The Covenhouse - Karen Koehler's Website

Karen Koehler was born in 1973 in New Jersey. At a very young age she developed a deep interest in monster films and horror/SF  literature. She grew up on such authors as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Isaac Asimov, Dean Koontz, John Saul, Richard Matheson and Tanith Lee. She learned to love all the Universal and Hammer horror films prominent in the 1970s and 80s, and her popular Slayer series reflects her deeply rooted interest in subculture and dark secrets.

In 1991 she went out west to study pre-med but wound up drafting a rough novel entitled Slayer. After nine years and nearly 100 rejections by publishers and agents, both foreign and domestic, she returned to New England in 1999. Once more on her home turf, she released Slayer as a free downloadable novel in January 2000 and as a hardcopy in January 2001. Slayer has since garnered much public attention, generating a fan club, an RPG, and numerous reviews.

Recently, Karen released the follow-up to Slayer, Slayer: Dragon's Blood, in free "electronic dreadful" format. The novella will be included in a collection slated for hardcopy release in 2002. She is currently working on a comic adaptation of the series and has several other projects in the works, among them, Scarabus, a historical horror novel, The Maiden, an SF series, The Books of Bast, a young adult fantasy series, and Shredder, a Midwestern horror novel.

She is employed as a design specialist and a publishing consultant at KHP Publishers. Her hobbies include reading, sketch and computer art, baking, music and scary movies. You may write her at the_vampire_akisha@yahoo.com. Please note that due to the large volume of mail she receives, she can no longer read or critique submitted work.