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Kathryn Atwood
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Kathryn Anne Ptacek was born on 12 September 1952 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, but was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her B. A. in Journalism, with a minor in history, from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where she was graduated with distinction in 1974. While attending the university, she was a student of award-winning mystery writer Tony Hillerman and well-known YA writer Lois Duncan. Afterward, she worked briefly for a political party best left unnamed, was a telephone solicitor for the New Mexico Assn. of Retarded People, and spent two years as an advertising lay-out artist for a regional grocery warehouse co-op, and then worked for the University of New Mexico first as a secretary in the Dept. of Speech and Hearing, then for the University's Computing Center as their only technical writer and editor.
After the sale of her first novel, an historical romance, in July 1979, she quit to become a full-time novelist. As Les Simons, Kathryn Atwood, Anne Mayfield, Kathleen Maxwell, Kathryn Ptacek, and Kathryn Grant, she has written an historical fantasy series, numerous historical romances, and five horror novels. Her dark fantasy have won the Silver Medal and Gold Medal awards given by the West Coast Review of Books. She has also edited three anthologies, the critically acclaimed Women of Darkness and its companion Women of Darkness II (both Tor), and Women of the West (Doubleday). Editions of her books have appeared in England, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Germany. Her short stories have appeared in Greystone Bay, Doom City (Greystone Bay II), Fantasy Tales, the Post Mortem anthology, Pulphouse 5, The Horror Show, Freak Show (HWA anthology), A Confederacy of Horrors, Into The Fog, The Ultimate Witch, and Phobias. She is a member of Horror Writers Association, Mystery Writers of America, the International Women Writers Guild, and the Police Writers Club. She also prepares a market report for Hellnotes, is the editor of the Horror Writers Association's monthly newsletter, and publishes a market newsletter, The Gila Queen's Guide to Markets, which goes to writers and artists around the world.
On 1982, she married to dark fantasy novelist Charles L. Grant, who died in 2006. She shares a 116-year-old Victorian clapboard house with five cats in Newton, New Jersey. Her hobbies include gardening, jewelry making, and various needlework. She also has a large collection of gila monster memorabilia, and collects unusual teapots and cat whiskers.
Book List in Order: 5 titles
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Satan's Angel
- Dec-1981
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FROM WILD CHILD TO WAYWARD BEAUTY -- HER WILL KNEW NO MASTER, HER HEART BUT ONE... Raised in the wild, the unwanted child of a noblewoman, silver-haired Angel is found by two wayfaring scoundrels who rename her Jackie, train her in the roguish way...
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Renegade Lady
- Sep-1982
- / Historical Romance
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THE MAN WITH THE EMERALD EYES A victim of her brother's gambling debts, lovely Theone Danvers had been left to choose between the hell of debtor's prison -- and the lecherous arms of the Marquis de Juliers. But Theone was a fiery beauty wi...
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The Lawless Heart
- Nov-1984
- / Historical Romance
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By day she was a paragon of virtue. By night, a seductive enchantress As Irenee Carleton, she was a modest, eminently respectable lady of London society. As Lady Ardis, she was the mysterious, bewitching queen of London's decadent demimonde, des...
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My Lady Rogue
- Sep-1986
- / Historical Romance
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THE EMBRACE OF BURNING INTRIGUE... THE LURE OF REMEMBERED PASSION Ariel de Juilers Greystone... beautiful, clever...a woman of many talents, she was London's leading actress -- and she was about to assume the most important role of her life ....