Carrie Vaughn

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name = Carrie Vaughn


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birthdate = January, 1973
birthplace = California
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occupation = Novelist
nationality = American
period = 1999 - present
genre = Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal romance
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website = http://www.carrievaughn.com

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.

Carrie Vaughn was a 1998 graduate of the intensive 6-week Odyssey Writing Workshop, one of the top speculative fiction writing workshops in the USA. [ [http://www.sff.net/odyssey/grads98.html Odyssey '98 Graduates ] ]

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'. [cite web| url = http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php?year =2005&type =book&level =2| title = Romantic Times 2005 Reviewers' Choice Award Winners] Vaughn has said she welcomes the attention, but that it was unexpected.cite news| url = http://www.denverpost.com/lifestyles/ci_6253962| title = Love at first bite| author = Evans, Clay| publisher = The Denver Post| date = July 2| year = 2007]

In January 2008 "Kitty and the Silver Bullet" was ranked 20 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction). [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/bestseller/0120bestpapermassfiction.html] New York Best Seller List, 20 Jan 2008]

Novels

Kitty Norville (Werewolf)

# "Kitty and the Midnight Hour" (2005)
# "Kitty Goes to Washington" (2006)
# "Kitty Takes a Holiday" (2007)
# "Kitty and the Silver Bullet" (2008)
# "Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand" (February 2009)cite web| url = http://groups.yahoo.com/group/carrievaughnnews/| title = Carrie Vaughn Official Group| publisher = Yahoo!Groups ]
# "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 seriescite web| url = http://media-c01m01.libsyn.com/podcasts/0e16a4e0737d5b5a8b4dc12481b14374/46057722/scifipublishing/AISFP_014_032007.mp3| title = Adventures in Scifi Publishing Radio Show| publisher = BLOGSPOT ] .

Omnibus Editions

# "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."

hort Stories

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

Kitty Norville (Werewolf)

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

Other Stories

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

References

External links

* [http://www.carrievaughn.com/ Carrie Vaughn's Official Website]
* [http://carriev.wordpress.com/ "Filling the Well"] – Carrie Vaughn's weblog