Karen E. Taylor is a horror/paranormal author, with eight published novels to date (seven of which comprise her Vampire Legacy series along with Twelve Steps from Darkness, a stand-alone ghost novel) and an eclectic assortment of short fiction which ranges from vampires to ghosts to telepathic, romantic dinosaurs. She claims she starts out to write a "normal" story, but then her characters turn spectral or grow fangs or fur or wings. So she writes what she loves and hopes her readers love it too. She started writing her first novel (Beauty Like the Night) in 1988. It was that novel, published in 1993 under the title of Blood Secrets, that started Karen's career. She has been nominated twice for a Bram Stoker award; the first for her short story, Mexican Moon, and the second time for her collection of short fiction entitled Fangs and Angel Wings. Kensington Books has been re-releasing her Vampire Legacy series in two-volume omnibus editions. The last of these will be published (title unknown) in the fall of 2013.