Jeanne C. Stein

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Jeanne Stein is the national bestselling author of the Urban Fantasy series, The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles. Her character, Anna Strong, received a RT Reviewers Choice Award for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist in 2008 and was nominated again for the 2011 book, Crossroads. Anna Strong was named one of Panaromal Fantasy’s Top ten Ass-Kicking Heroines by Barnes and Nobles’s reviewer, Paul Goat Allen in 2013. Jeanne also has numerous short story credits, including the novella, Blood Debt, from the New York Times bestselling anthology, Hexed (2011). Her series has been picked up in three foreign countries and her short stories published in collections here in the US and the UK. The ninth in the Anna Strong series, Blood Bond, debuts in August. Cursed, the first in a new series written with Samantha Sommersby under the S. J. Harper pseudonym, debuts in October.

Jeanne lives in Denver, CO where she is active in the writing community, belonging to Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (where she was honored by winning the Writer of the Year award in 2008 and is nominated again for 2011), Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and Horror Writers of America. She has taught at numerous conferences and on-line academies.