New York Times bestselling author SHERRILYN KENYON Biography St. Martins Press Werewolves Vampires Paranormal Romance Fiction

New York Times bestselling author, Sherrilyn Kenyon lives a life of extraordinary danger... as does any woman with three sons, a husband, a menagerie of pets and a collection of swords that all of the above have a major fixation with. But when not running interference (or dashing off to the emergency room), she’s found chained to her computer where she likes to play with all her imaginary friends. With more than six million copies of her books in print, in twenty-three countries, she certainly has a lot of friends to play with too.

Writing as Kinley MacGregor and Sherrilyn Kenyon, she is the author of several series including: The Dark-Hunters, Brotherhood of the Sword, Lords of Avalon and BAD. With an international, cult following, her books have appeared on the top ten of the New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly and USA Today lists.

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With over six million copies of her books in print in twenty-three countries, New York Times best-selling author Sherrilyn Kenyon burst onto the publishing scene with her crossover novel Born of the Night, an out of print novel that now, nine years after publication, is deemed the Holy Grail by her fans. On the rare occasions when it appears on eBay, it commands more than forty times its original cover price. The rarest of her books is the e-novel Born of Fire (one of the first e-books ever published in the mid 1990's and a launch book for Dreams-Unlimited) which commands well over $200.00 any time it appears at auction.

But it was her groundbreaking Dark-Hunter vampire novels that catapulted her into superstardom, making her series one of the most eagerly awaited in publishing history. Her books were an overnight sensation that have given her an international cult following with devout fans in more than forty-five countries and landed her on multiple bestseller lists including the top ten of the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly and USA Today. And many of her titles are perennial bestsellers in the US, Germany, Australia and the UK, under multiple genre listings. Her web site has had in the last two years alone over nine and a half million visitors total from more than forty countries. She averages just over 120,000 visitors a week (more whenever she has a new release).

A versatile, award-winning writer, Sherrilyn has carved out multiple bestselling series in numerous genres and subgenres (Science Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Horror, Contemporary, Historical, Romantic Suspense, Futuristic, Urban Fantasy, High Fantasy and Time Travel). Writing as Sherrilyn Kenyon and Kinley MacGregor, her series include: The Brotherhood of the Sword, Dark-Hunter, Hunter Legends, BAD, Lords of Avalon, Nevermore and the Sex Camp Diaries.

Along with her work in fiction, she is an accomplished nonfiction author who has contributed to such works as The Character-Naming Sourcebook, Everyday Life in the Middle Ages, The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference, and essays "The Search of Spike's Balls" in BenBella's Seven Seasons of Buffy, and others in Five Seasons of Angel. Her articles and short-stories have appeared in hundreds of large and small journals and magazines worldwide. She's also written for television, radio and was once a copywriter and SF/F editor.