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About Me

I write paranormal romance for Tor and urban fantasy for Bantam Dell. My paranormal romance series is called the Guardians of the Night, and there are four books:

Watchers in the Night Secrets in the Shadows Shadows on the Soul Hungers of the Heart

My Morgan Kingsley series is about and exorcist who's possessed by the king of the demons! The first book, The Devil Inside, is available now

The second book The Devil You Know hits the stands on July 29.

My official bio:

Jenna Black is your typical writer. Which means she's an "experience junkie." She got her BA in physical anthropology and French from Duke University.

Once upon a time, she dreamed she would be the next Jane Goodall, camping in the bush making fabulous discoveries about primate behavior. Then, during her senior year at Duke, she did some actual research in the field and made this shocking discovery: primates spend something like 80% of their time doing such exciting things as sleeping and eating.

Concluding that this discovery was her life's work in the field of primatology, she then moved on to such varied pastimes as grooming dogs and writing technical documentation. Among her other experiences . . .

Ballroom dancing.
Traveling all seven continents. Yes, even Antarctica.
Becoming a Life Master in Bridge.
Singing in a barbershop chorus.

Visit me on the web! Read the first chapter of Watchers in the Night Read the first chapter of Secrets in the Shadows Read the first chapter of The Devil Inside Read the first chapter of Shadows on the Soul

My Interests

Romance novels, particularly paranormal romance; urban fantasy novels; ballroom dance; reading anything that holds still long enough

I'd like to meet:

Fans, book lovers, fellow authors--especially fellow Tor or Bantam Dell authors!

Music:

Anything a cappella Classic 70's and 80's

Movies:

The Princess Bride
Dangerous Liaisons
Sense and Sensibility
The Usual Suspects
The Shawshank Redemption
Miller's Crossing

Television:

Desperate Housewives, The Amazing Race, Lost, Survivor, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance

Books:

The Anita Blake series, Laurell K Hamilton
The Weather Warden series, Rachel Caine
The Black Jewel trilogy, Anne Bishop
The Women of the Otherworld series, Kelley Armstrong
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull
Nobody's Son, Sean Stewart
Strange Attractions, Emma Holly
Those Who Hunt the Night, Barbara Hambly
The Black Dagger Brotherhood series, JR Ward
This list could go on forever if I let it . . .

My Blog

I’m Alive!

I bet some of you were starting to wonder, based on my total lack of communication these last couple of months. I had a killer deadline to meet, and it just sucked up all my energy. I kept up with ema...
Posted by Jenna Black on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:05:00 PST

Interview with Jeri Smith-Ready

In a continuing effort not to have to think up my own blog topics, I'm posting an interview with my fellow urban fantasy author (and all-around cool person), Jeri Smith-Ready. I'm about halfway throug...
Posted by Jenna Black on Wed, 14 May 2008 07:38:00 PST

Brenda Novak’s Auction for Diabetes

Diabetes runs in my family. All of the women on my mother's side of my family--my grandmother, my mother, and all three of her sisters--have or have had it, and I have seen just how awful the disease ...
Posted by Jenna Black on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:25:00 PST

Hungers of the Heart out today!

Hungers of the Heart, the fourth book of my Guardians of the Night series, comes out today! For all of my fans who've been waiting for Drake's book ever since Watchers in the Night, now is your cha...
Posted by Jenna Black on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:05:00 PST

Interview with Tate Hallaway

Tate Hallaway is the best selling alias of the award-winning science fiction author Lyda Morehouse. Lyda wrote a four book trilogy about angels, computers and the end of the world all of which a...
Posted by Jenna Black on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:50:00 PST

RT Pictures

Usually, I try to put my blog posts up both on Blogger and on MySpace. However, it's not just a simple cut and paste when there are bunches of pictures involved, so this time, I'm just going to point ...
Posted by Jenna Black on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:17:00 PST

RT, Here I Come!

Tomorrow morning, I'll be off to Pittsburgh for the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention. Last year was my first time going to RT, and I had an absolute blast. I suspect I'll have a great time this ye...
Posted by Jenna Black on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:08:00 PST

Decisions, Decisions

Decisions, DecisionsJust about every author out there who hopes to make a living as a writer does some amount of self-promotion. They create bookmarks, hire publicists, create book videos, buy ads . ....
Posted by Jenna Black on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:21:00 PST

Anthology Cover

I received some new cover art yesterday--not for one of my novels, but for a short story anthology I have a story in. It’s called The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, and will come out in August...
Posted by Jenna Black on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:26:00 PST

Q&A with Maria Snyder

Today, I'm going to do my very first guest interview. (Partially because it's been too long since I've posted anything and this is easy; partially because I'm away from home at the Celebrate Romance c...
Posted by Jenna Black on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:37:00 PST