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