Jeanne Stein is the national bestselling author of the Urban Fantasy series, The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles. Anna Strong received a RT BookReviewers Choice Award for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist in 2008 and was nominated again for the 2011 book, Crossroads. Jeanne also has numerous short story credits, including the novella, "Blood Debt," from the New York Times bestselling anthology, Hexed (2011). Her series has been picked up in three foreign countries and her short stories published in collections here in the US and the UK. The ninth in the series, "Blood Debt," debuts in August. Jeanne lives in Denver, CO where she is active in the writing community, belonging to Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (where she was honored by winning the Writer of the Year award in 2008 and nominated again in 2012), Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and Horror Writers of America. She has taught at numerous conferences and on-line academies, and been a guest at Dragon*Con since 2007.