I’m a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy, apocalyptic and cyberpunk-y science fiction and fantasy. I write paranormal mystery, alternate history, urban fantasy & supernatural suspense, often with a metaphysical bent.

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While it might seem like I have a (perhaps overly?) friendly relationship with my dark side, if you read my stuff, you’ll discover pretty quick that, at base and in my heart, I’m a big, sappy, pie in the sky idealist, and that I always want the light to win, love to win, the good guys to win, compassion to win, the bad guys to be redeemed or at least to find love… even if they have to crawl through mud and blood and crazy sex and betrayal and broken fingernails to get there.

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Of course, not all of them make it… but I always hope that they will.

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Other stuff: I have a background in journalism and political history, and a Master's degree in the latter. I love to travel and to interact with different cultures, and I’ve traveled a fair bit over my life. I've also lived in a lot of different places, including all over the United States where I was born, as well as stints in Europe, Australia and Asia, including a few years in India and around five years in Thailand.

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Currently, I live and work full-time as a writer in Los Angeles, California. I'm loving being back in the states and getting a huge kick out of living in Hollywood and learning all the history here.