Seanan McGuire lives and works in Washington State, where she shares heridiosyncratic home with her collection of books, creepy dolls, and enormous cats. Whennot writing--which is fairly rare--she enjoys travel, and can regularly be found anyplace where there are cornfields, haunted houses, or frogs. A Campbell, Alex, Hugo, and Nebula Award-winning author, Seanan's debut novel (Rosemary and Rue, the first entry in the New York Times-bestselling October Daye series) was released in 2009, and she has published more than fifty books since. Seanan doesn't sleep much. Keep up with her at seananmcguire.com