Karen E. Taylor

American novelist

Karen E. Taylor
Born	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Education	Grove City College
Occupation	Novelist
Known for	The Vampire Legacy series

Karen E. Taylor is an American novelist who is known for The Vampire Legacy series of novels, which has been published by Kensington Books.^[1]^[2]

Formative years and family

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Taylor graduated from Churchill High School and Grove City College. She developed an interest in the theater before becoming a writer, later saying that she preferred writing because "You get to write all the lines and play all the parts."

After residing near Los Angeles, California with her husband and pets, she and her family relocated to Alexandria, Virginia in 2011. In 2019, they relocated to Vancouver, Washington.

Career

A reader of vampire/horror novels, Karen first started writing Blood Secrets in January 1988. She conceived of writing the novel while living across the street from a cemetery, but reportedly never intended to create an ongoing series. She subsequently embarked on the creation of a series in response to the success of her first book. That series now includes seven titles. Los Angeles Times contributor Robert Masello described her as the Los Angeles area's "own Anne Rice."^[3]

Taylor's short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including: Love Bites, 100 Vicious Little Vampires, 100 Wicked Little Witches, A Horror Story A Day, and Seductive Spectres. In 2001, she was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for best short story for "Mexican Moon."

Bibliography

The Vampire Legacy Series

Blood Red Dawn - 2004
Resurrection - 2002
The Vampire Vivienne - 2001
Blood of my Blood - 2000
Blood Ties - 1995
Bitter Blood - 1994
Blood Secrets - 1994

Collections

Fangs and Angel Wings^{[permanent dead link]} - (Wildside Press 2003)

NOVELS The Vampire Legacy—Published by Pinnacle Books

Blood Secrets

            as HUNGER July 2011

Bitter Blood

           as HUNGER July 2011

Blood Ties

         as CRAVE October 2011

Blood of My Blood

                as  CRAVE October 2011

The Vampire Vivienne Resurrection Blood Red Dawn

TWELVE STEPS FROM DARKNESS, Juno Books, April 2007

HUNGER, Kensington Books, July 2011

CRAVE, Kensington Books, October, 2011

SHORT FICTION

Fangs and Angel Wings

The short fiction of Karen E. Taylor

"Gestation"

Dark Fluidity

"Two's Company, Five's a Crowd"

Family Plots

"A Good Idea at the Time"

Women Writing Science Fiction as Men

"Happy Mother's Day"  (with Barbara J. Ferrenz)

Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox

"Freedom"

Brainbox: The Real Horror

"Mexican Moon"

Daughter of Dangerous Dames

"Forever"

Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories

"Romeo Falling"

Return of the Dinosaurs

"The Presence"

Seductive Spectres

"Obsession"

No Other Tribute

"The Mirrored Image"

Love Bites

"VampWare"

100 Vicious Little Vampires

"The Blood of the Rose"

100 Wicked Little Witches

Book of Dead Things

Best of Horrorfind II

Twilight Tales

References

^ Lamb, Joyce. "You're all alone in a dark cemetery: Time for new paranormals." USA Today, August 1, 2013.
^ Masello, Robert. "The skeleton crew makes things go bump in the night." Los Angeles, California: The Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2004, p. E1 (subscription required).
^ Masello, Robert. "A night gallery." Los Angeles, California: The Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2004, p. E6 (subscription required).