BIOGRAPHYAward winning author Sam Stone began writing aged 11 after reading her first adult fiction book, The Collector by John Fowles. Her love of horror fiction began soon afterwards when she stayed up late one night with her sister to watch Christopher Lee in the classic Hammer film, Dracula. Since then she's been a huge fan of vampire movies and novels old and new. Sam's writing has appeared in many anthologies for poetry and prose. Her first novel was the fulfilment of a lifelong dream. Like all good authors she drew on her own knowledge and passions to write it. The novel won the Silver Award for Best Horror Novel in ForeWord Magazine's book of the year awards in 2007. In September 2008 the novel was re-edited and republished by The House of Murky Depths as Killing Kiss. The sequels, Futile Flame and Demon Dance went on to become finalists in the same awards for 2009/2010. Both novels were later Shortlisted for The British Fantasy Society Awards for Best Novel and Demon Dance won the award for Best Novel in 2011. Sam also won Best Short Fiction for her story Fool's Gold which first appeared in the NewCon Press Anthology The Bitten Word.In 2011 Sam was commissioned by Reeltime Pictures to write a monologue for their talking heads style Doctor Who spin-off, White Witch of Devil's End. She was also co-script editor with David J Howe. White Witch, starring Damaris Hayman, will be released on DVD in December 2013.Rights for Sam's first novel Killing Kiss were bought by Verlag Bucheinband lnes Neumann in March 2013 for translation into German. The novel, provisionally called KillerKuss, will be in print in December 2013. Since then Sam has sold an original novella, The Darkness Within to AudioGo for Audio and Ebook (release in September 2013). She was also commissioned by Telos to write a sequel to her hugely successful Steampunk Novella Zombies at Tiffany's and her much loved heroine, Kat Lightfoot, returned to the printed page in September 2013 in Kat on a Hot Tin Airship. The audio rights to Zombies At Tiffany's were subsequently bought by Spokenworld Audio and will be available for download for Halloween 2013. An eclectic and skilled prose writer Sam also has a BA (Hons) in English and Writing for Performance and an MA in Creative Writing, which means that she is frequently invited to talk about writing in schools, colleges and universities in the UK. She is said to be an 'inspirational' speaker.WRITING CREDITSNovelsKat On A Hot Tin Airship¸ (Telos Publishing - Aug 2013)Silent Sand: A Vampire Gene Novel (The House of Murky Depths - Sept 2012)Hateful Heart: A Vampire Gene Novel (The House of Murky Depths - Sept 2011)Demon Dance: Book 3 The Vampire Gene (The House of Murky Depths - Sept 2010)Futile Flame: Book 2 The Vampire Gene (The House of Murky Depths - July 2009)Killing Kiss: Book 1 The Vampire Gene (The House of Murky Depths - Sept 2008)Novels in TranslationTodeskuss: (Killing Kiss) (Verlag Bucheinband lnes Neumann, Germany - TBA 2013) NovellasThe Darkness Within, (AudioGo, Oct 2013) EbookZombies at Tiffany's, (Telos Publishing - Sept 2012) Paperback)CollectionsZombies in New York & Other Bloody Jottings (Telos Publishing - Feb 2011)AudioZombies At Tiffany's, (Spokenworld Audio, Oct 2013)The Darkness Within, Novella (AudioGo, Sept 2013)Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottings, Short Story Collection (AudioGo Oct 2012)Walking the Dead, Bonus Short Story in Audio on Zombies in New York, (AudioGo Oct 2012)ScreenplaysScript editor - White Witch of Devil's End, (Reeltime Pictures, Nov 2013)Writer - Prologue/The Inheritance, White Witch of Devil's End, (Reeltime Pictures, Nov 2013)Short FictionThe Last Resort, (Short Fiction Contribution) Fear the Reaper (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2013, TBA)Urban Wolf,(Short Fiction Contribution) Demonalogia Biblica (Western Legends Publishing, 2013 TBA)Imogen, (Short Fiction Contribution) The Best of British Fantasy 2013, (Salt Publishing, June 2013)Fallout, (Short Fiction Contribution) Atomic Age Cthulhu, (Chaosium,, 2013 TBA)The Puppet Master, (Short Fiction Contribution) Edge Of Sundown (Chaosium, 2013 TBA)Sonar City, (Short fiction Contribution) Eldritch Chrome (Chaosium, 2013 TBA)Imogen, (Short Fiction Contribution) Siblings Collection (Hersham Horror, Sept 2012)Chillers and Breathers, (Short Fiction Contribution) The Hammer Out Book of Ghosts (Fantom Films, Jan 2012)Immortal Monster, (Short Fiction Contribution) The Hammer Out Book of Ghosts (Fantom Films, Jan 2012)The Toymaker's House (Short Fiction Contribution) Full Fathom Forty (British Fantasy Society, Sept 2011)Walking the Dead (Short Fiction Contribution) BFS Journal Spring 2011 (British Fantasy Society, March 2011)Fool's Gold (Short Fiction Contribution) The Bitten Word (NewCon Press - March 2010)