Laurell K. Hamilton's writing is characterized by vivid prose, erotic sensuality, complex character and world building. Laurell K Hamilton is a regular on the New York Times Bestseller List with both her series: Anita Blake -Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry - Fairy Princess/Private Eye series.

The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series published by Penguin Group (USA), under the Berkley Books imprint span 16 novels, including the release of Blood Noir earlier this year. With over 7 million copies in print worldwide and available in over seventeen languages, there is no end in sight for 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 graphic novel of Guilty Pleasures, in July 2007, was the number one selling graphic novel for that month. And the comic medium also allowed Hamilton (writing for the first time with her husband, Jonathon Green) to give fans the Anita 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 Merry's own life and that of those who follow her. The next Merry book, Swallowing Darkness will debut late 2008.

Author Laurell K. Hamilton resides in St. Louis County, Missouri with her husband and partner Jonathon Green, 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