Lucy A. Snyder is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of several books:* Spellbent* Shotgun Sorceress* Switchblade Goddess* While The Black Stars Burn* Soft Apocalypses* Orchid Carousals* Sparks and Shadows* Chimeric Machines* Installing Linux on a Dead Badger* Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, In the Court of the Yellow King, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad 2, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5. She lives in Ohio and is a mentor in Seton Hill University's MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. You can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.You can learn more at her website: www.lucysnyder.com