Lilith Saintcrow was born in New Mexico near White Sands and then transported to Britain, where she spent her formative years. After returning to the States as a military brat, she bounced from Wyoming to Washington State, writing all the while. Her first taste of writing success was a second-place fiction prize when she was ten, and she was hooked enough to keep writing for well over a decade. "I have my first novel locked away in a desk drawer." she laughs. "Nobody will ever see it. It's kind of like a deformed pet hidden in the attic."

Fortunately, she has written eight other books, mostly unpublished but gathering great rejection notes, which she reads to her two children as bedtime stories. Her work includes horror fiction, fantasy, and suspense. "My themes are pretty universal. Sex, death, redemption, hope—you know, the basic human stuff." Her first published work, Blood Angel, is due out on AnotherChapter.com on May 11.

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