Chicks Kick Butt (39 page)

RACHEL CAINE
is the internationally bestselling author of thirty novels, including the
New York Times
and
USA Today
bestselling Morganville Vampires young adult series:
Glass Houses, The Dead Girls’ Dance, Midnight Alley, Feast of Fools, Lord of Misrule, Carpe Corpus,
and
Fade Out,
with five more to follow through 2011. She also writes the bestselling Weather Warden series:
Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor, Windfall, Firestorm, Thin Air, Gale Force,
and
Cape Storm
. She recently launched a third series, Outcast Season (
Undone, Unknown, Unseen, Unbroken
). She has also published an original novel for the television show
Stargate SG-1
(
Sacrifice Moon
) under the pseudonym of Julie Fortune in 2005. She has had short fiction in several bestselling anthologies, including
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, Strange Brew,
and
Many Bloody Returns
. She and her husband, award-winning artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Fort Worth.

Artist, writer, editor, and traveler,
KERRIE HUGHES
would also like to be a paranormal investigator and a size 2 but it ain’t gonna happen, so she has dedicated her life to just being a Chick who can Kick Butt without having to be violent. (But she would love to go Cynthia Rothrock on some bad guys and win.) Kerrie has been editing anthologies since 2005, and in addition to
Chicks Kick Butt
has worked on the following volumes:
Love and Rockets,
2010
A Girl’s Guide to Guns and Monsters,
2010
Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies,
2009
Gamer Fantastic,
July 2009
Dimension Next Door,
2008
Fellowship Fantastic,
2008
Children of Magic,
2006
Maiden Matron Crone,
2005