Rachel A. Brune graduated from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts in May 2000, and was immediately plunged into the low-stakes world of entry-level executive assistant-ship. Her unexpected journey out of that world and into the military is chronicled in her self-published book Echoes and Premonitions. Rachel served five years as a combat journalist, including two tours in Iraq, and a brief stint as a columnist for her hometown newspaper. After her second tour, she attended graduate school at the University at Albany in NY, where she earned her MA in Political Communication, and her commission as a second lieutenant in the military police corps. She returned to the Army Reserve in November 2014. Rachel continues to write and publish short fiction, and currently works as a freelance journalist, her "full-time job that pays part-time wages." She published her suspense thriller, Soft Target, in April 2013. Her werewolf urban fantasy novel, Cold Run, launched from Untold Press August 2, 2014, and is currently available on Amazon. She is currently working on a several non-fiction projects, as well as the sequel to Cold Run.In addition to continuing to work on her fiction and freelancing, she blogs her adventures, writing and otherwise, at The Infamous Scribbler. You can also follow her on Twitter, where she goes by the handle @rachelabrune.