Carrie Vaughn

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Carrie Vaughn
Image:CarrieVaughn.jpg
Born January, 1973
California
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Writing period 1999 - present
Genres Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal romance
Official website

Carrie Vaughn is an American author who writes the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series. She has published more than 30 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as short story anthologies and internet magazines. She is on the list of authors for the upcoming Wild Cards books. She graduated with a BA from Occidental College (during the course of which she also spent a year at the University of York) and later graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with an MA in English Literature. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.

She has a number of "Best Scifi" and "Best Horror/Fantasy" honorable mentions to her credit, but has yet to win an award in any category.

While the Kitty Norville books are published as fantasy, they have been popular with romance readers as well. In 2005, Kitty and the Midnight Hour won Romantic Times' Reviewer's Choice Award for 'Best First Mystery'.[1] Vaughn has said she welcomes the attention, but that it was unexpected.[2]

“ I emerged from the world of science fiction and fantasy, but I'm being promoted as a romance writer. It's kind of like Jerry Lewis becoming popular in France, I guess.[2] ”

Contents

[edit] Novels

[edit] Kitty Norville (Werewolf)

  1. Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005)
  2. Kitty Goes to Washington (2006)
  3. Kitty Takes a Holiday (2007)
  4. Kitty and the Silver Bullet (2008)
  5. Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (February 2009)[3]
  6. Kitty Raises Hell (March/April 2009)

Carrie Vaughn said in an online interview that there are three more books after Kitty and the Silver Bullet planned for the Kitty series[4].

[edit] Omnibus Editions

  1. Long-Time Listener, First-Time Werewolf (2007) Collects Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Kitty Goes to Washington, Kitty Takes a Holiday, and "Kitty Meets the Band."

[edit] Short Stories

Vaughn offers a number of short stories on her website if you want to sample some of her work.

[edit] Kitty Norville (Werewolf)

  1. "Doctor Kitty Solves All Your Problems" Weird Tales 324, Summer 2001
  2. "Kitty Loses Her Faith" Weird Tales 333, Fall 2003
  3. "Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned" Weird Tales 338
  4. "Winnowing the Herd" Strange Horizons, October 16, 2006. A non-Kitty tale of the radio station.
  5. "Looking After Family" Realms of Fantasy, February 2007. A tale of Cormac the assassin.
  6. "Kitty's Zombie New Year" ''Weird Tales 345

[edit] Other Stories

  1. "The Girl with the Pre-Raphaelite Hair" Talebones 17, Fall 1999
  2. "The Haunting of Princess Elizabeth" Sword and Sorceress XVII, May 2000
  3. "A Riddle in Nine Syllables" Talebones 20, Fall 2000
  4. "In Time" Talebones 21, Spring 2001
  5. "Silence Before Starlight" Talebones 23, Winter 2001
  6. "The Librarian's Daughter" Realms of Fantasy, August 2002
  7. "The Heroic Death of Lieutenant Michkov" Polyphony 1, Fall 2002
  8. "Strife Lingers in Memory" Realms of Fantasy, December 2002
  9. "A Hunter's Ode to His Bait" Realms of Fantasy, February 2003
  10. "After the Golden Age" Dogtown Review 1, May 2004
  11. "This is the Highest Step in the World" All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, October 2004
  12. "Peace in Our Time" Futurismic.com, December 2004
  13. "The Bravest of Us Touched the Sky" Talebones 29Winter 2004
  14. "Danae at Sea" TEL: Stories, Fall 2005
  15. "Draw Thy Breath in Pain" Paradox #8, December 2005
  16. "The Whimsical Lives of Bean Counters" Talebones 31,Winter 2005
  17. "Real City" Futurismic.com, June 2006
  18. "Last Moments of a Doomed Race" Son and Foe #4 2006
  19. "For Fear of Dragons" Weird Tales, Oct/Nov 2006
  20. "Of Swords and Horses" Realms of Fantasy December 2006
  21. "Crows" Talebones 34, Winter 2006
  22. "A Princess of Spain" The Secret History of Vampires, April 2007
  23. "Marrying In" Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007
  24. "Swing Time" Baen's Universe, June 2007
  25. "Free Space" Baen's Universe, August 2007

[edit] References

  1. ^ =2005&type =book&level =2 Romantic Times 2005 Reviewers' Choice Award Winners.
  2. ^ a b Evans, Clay. "Love at first bite", The Denver Post, July 2. 
  3. ^ Carrie Vaughn Official Group. Yahoo!Groups.
  4. ^ Adventures in Scifi Publishing Radio Show. BLOGSPOT.

[edit] External links