Laura Bickle has worked in the unholy trinity of politics, criminology, and technology for several years. She and her chief muse live in the Midwest, owned by four mostly-reformed feral cats.

Her work has been published in Midnight Times, Down in the Cellar, MicroHorror, Theaker's Quarterly Fiction,Ballista , Byzarium, New Myths,a Blog-O-Novella office soap opera for True Office Confessions,  and Aoife's Kiss. Her most recent project is the Embers series of urban fantasy novels for Juno-Pocket Books.

She also writes urban fantasy as Alayna Williams. Check out her other novels at www.alaynawilliams.com.

She can be e-mailed at: laura@salamanderstales.com. She's blogging on writing at: www.salamanderstales.blogspot.com.