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About Me

I'm a dark-fantasy novelist living in Los Angeles. My first novel BLOODANGEL came out from Roc/Penguin last October, and I'm currently hauling ass to finish the sequel by August 1 (there will be at least a third book in the series as well).I also have a YA supernatural thriller called STRANGER coming out from MTV Books/Simon & Schuster. It's about a teenage girl trying to save her brother from the angelic/demonic leader of a highly unusual motorcycle cult.I grew up in Canada. Lived in Australia and Japan before settling down in California (first the Bay Area, now Los Angeles). Have a husband and young twin sons.My website is www.justinemusk.com. You can download fifty pages of my novel BLOODANGEL there and find my blog and a bit more information about me.

My Interests

fiction, movies, art, fitness, dance, fashion, cooking, dogs, clubs, restaurants, travel, cities, history, criminal psychology

I'd like to meet:

Michael Mann.David Bowie.China Mieville.T.C. Boyle.Stephen King. And Tabitha King, who wrote a book called SURVIVOR I just loved.Many others.

Music:

mostly alt-rock, dance & electronicafavorite standbys are Bowie, Blur, Dandy Warhols, Alabama 3, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Red Hot Chili Peppers, White Stripesthese days also liking (and writing to) Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Killers, Goldfrapp, Three Days Grace, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movies:

Empire Strikes Back. Silence of the Lambs. Exotica. Heat. Manhunter. Collateral. Usual Suspects. Seven. Mansfield Park. All About Eve. Notorious. Dangerous Beauty. White Nights. Black Widow. Terminator 2. Aliens. Jaws. Amadeus. Farewell My Concubine. Matrix. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Kill Bill.

Television:

24. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Angel. Rome. Top Chef; Hell's Kitchen; Project Runway

Books:

too many to listbooks I've loved recently: PERDIDO STREET STATION by China Mieville, WHAT I LOVED by Siri Husvedt, THE LAST OF HER KIND by Sigrid Nunez, George R.R. Martin's SWORD OF FIRE AND ICE series, Jacqueline Carey's KUSHIEL series, DROP CITY by T.C. Boyle, AFTER THE PLAGUE by T.C. Boyle