Kim Harrison

Dawn Cook

Harrison during a Q & A at book signing event for A Perfect Blood, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Born 1966[1]
Pen name Kim Harrison
Occupation novelist
Nationality United States
Period 2002 to present
Genre Fantasy
Website
www.kimharrison.net

Kim Harrison is a pen-name of American author Dawn Cook. Under the name of Harrison, she is best known for her Rachel Morgan urban fantasy series set in an alternate history where a worldwide pandemic caused by genetically modified tomatoes led to the death of a large portion of the world's human population. Under the name of Dawn Cook, she is best known for her Decoy Princess and Truth series, published in the first few years of the 21st century.

Early life

Kim Harrison was born and raised in the Midwest. A self-proclaimed "former tomboy,"[2] she grew up the only girl in a family of boys. Despite her love of writing, she took an unorthodox approach to it, and claims to have avoided English courses beyond the basic requirements in high school and college.[3]

Career

Harrison began her career with writing traditional science fiction, but began writing contemporary fantasy after deciding to focus more on character development. She spent the better part of a decade struggling as an aspiring author before meeting her current agent at a writing convention. He then introduced her to Diana Gill, who became Harrison's editor. Together, they produced Dead Witch Walking, and her first book was published in paperback by HarperTorch in 2004. Since then, she has written twelve more books, two graphic novels, and extensive world book in the Hollows series, also called the Rachel Morgan series, (most with titles punning off Clint Eastwood movies) and contributed to multiple anthologies, with prequels to the Hollows books, and one with a young adult story.

After the success of her first novel, Harrison was able to resign from her day job, devoting herself to writing full-time. Her favorite author is Ray Bradbury. She references music as one of her strongest writing influences, providing song lists for several of her characters.[4] In her spare time, she communicates with fans via her self-maintained website and blog.

She is currently expanding her work into action thriller with the publication of The Drafter, 9/1/15, the first of a proposed trilogy in the Peri Reed Chronicles, published by Gallery Books at Simon and Schuster. Editor: Lauren McKenna.

Harrison is a member of the International Thriller Writers.

The first two Truth books were originally one book, which was split into two separate books for publishing.[5] That the two are the same, and that Cook was Harrison, was disclosed in a May 2009 Locus magazine article.[6]

"I'm glad it's out in the open, because it is hard to maintain these two separate identities, and remind your friends or family when you go out, 'I'm Kim today, so don't call me Dawn.' The division has served its purpose. I'm still going to be Kim, but now if somebody calls me Dawn I won't have to say 'Shut your mouth!'"[6]

Bibliography as Kim Harrison

Rachel Morgan / The Hollows series

Novels

Peri Reed Chronicles "The Drafter" (9/1/15, ISBN 978-1501108693)

Main article: Hollows (series)
  1. Dead Witch Walking (April 2004, ISBN 0-06-057296-5)
  2. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (January 2005, ISBN 0-06-057297-3)
  3. Every Which Way But Dead (June 28, 2005, ISBN 0-06-057299-X)
  4. A Fistful of Charms (June 27, 2006, ISBN 0-06-078819-4)
  5. For a Few Demons More (March 20, 2007, ISBN 0-06-078838-0)
  6. The Outlaw Demon Wails (Where Demons Dare in the UK) (February 26, 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-078870-4)
  7. White Witch, Black Curse (February 24, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-113801-0)
  8. Black Magic Sanction (February 23, 2010, ISBN 0-06-113803-7)
  9. Pale Demon (February 22, 2011, ISBN 0-06-113806-1)
  10. A Perfect Blood (February 21, 2012, ISBN 0-06-195789-5)
  11. Ever After (January 22, 2013, ISBN 0-06-195791-7)[7]
  12. The Undead Pool (February 25, 2014, ISBN 978-0-06-195793-2)[8]
  13. The Witch with No Name (September 9, 2014, ISBN 9780061957956)[9]

Graphic Novels

Supplement

Audio books

  1. Dead Witch Walking (July 2007, ISBN 978-1-4001-0471-0)—Tantor Media, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  2. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (November 2007, ISBN 978-1-4001-0472-7)—Tantor Media, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  3. Every Which Way But Dead (January 2008, ISBN 978-1-4001-0473-4)—Tantor Media, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  4. A Fistful of Charms (January 2008, ISBN 978-1-4001-0474-1)—Tantor Media, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  5. For a Few Demons More (May 2007, ISBN 978-1-4001-0453-6)—Tantor Media, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  6. The Outlaw Demon Wails (February 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-145298-7)—HarperAudio, Read By Gigi Bermingham
  7. White Witch, Black Curse (February 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-171469-6)—HarperAudio, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  8. Black Magic Sanction (February 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-197747-3)—HarperAudio, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  9. Pale Demon (February 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-113806-5)—HarperAudio, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  10. A Perfect Blood (February 2012, ISBN 978-0-06-211580-5)—HarperAudio, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  11. Ever After (Release Date 22 January 2013, ISBN 978-1-47-083873-7)—HarperAudio, Read By Marguerite Gavin
  12. Undead Pool
  13. The Witch With No Name

Omnibus editions

Collection

Novellas and short stories

A novella prequel centered on the character Ivy Tamwood, in Dates from Hell (April 1, 2006, ISBN 0-06-085409-X)—anthology with Kelley Armstrong, Lynsay Sands, and Lori Handeland.
A novella prequel centered on the character Rachel Morgan in Holidays Are Hell (October 30, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-123909-0)—anthology with Lynsay Sands, Marjorie M. Liu, and Vicki Pettersson.
A short story centered around the banshee Mia in the anthology Hotter Than Hell. (June 24, 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-116129-2)—anthology with Lilith Saintcrow, Tanya Huff and others
A short story included in the paperback edition of For a Few Demons More.
A short story about Ceri and Algaliarept, included in the paperback edition of The Outlaw Demon Wails.
A short story focused on Hallows characters Jenks and Bis working together to solve a case in Unbound (August 25, 2009, ISBN 0-06-169993-4)—anthology with Melissa Marr, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake.
A short story focused on Al, set after the end of The Witch With No Name, also claimed by author a last story in Hollows universe.

Madison Avery trilogy

Novels

  1. Once Dead, Twice Shy (May 26, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-171816-8)
  2. Early to Death, Early to Rise (May 25, 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-171817-5)
  3. Something Deadly This Way Comes (May 24, 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-171819-9)

Novellas and short stories

Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper introducing Madison Avery in Prom Nights From Hell. (April 1, 2007, ISBN 0-06-125309-X, ISBN 978-0-06-125309-6) a young adult anthology

Bibliography as Dawn Cook

Truth series

The Truth series is about a young woman whose mother tells her she needs to leave home to find a mythical fortress called 'The Hold.' Along the way, she falls into a ravine and is brought out of it by a plainsman. On the way to the Hold, she dreams of her dead father and learns about her true heritage, that she has the ability to use magic, skeptical as she is.

  1. First Truth, May 28, 2002, Ace Books, ISBN 0-441-00945-X
  2. Hidden Truth, November 26, 2002, Ace Books, ISBN 0-441-01003-2
  3. Forgotten Truth, November 25, 2003, Ace Books, ISBN 0-441-01117-9
  4. Lost Truth, November 30, 2004, Ace Books, ISBN 0-441-01228-0

Decoy Princess series

  1. The Decoy Princess, November 29, 2005, Ace Books, ISBN 0-441-01355-4
  2. Princess at Sea, July 25, 2006, Ace Books, ISBN 0-441-01424-0

Short story

With Friends Like These

A story about a vampire and his roommate, in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2 (September 22, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7624-3796-2)—anthology with Jordan Summers, Deborah Cooke, Karen MacInerney, Caitlin Kittredge, Dina James, Camille Bacon-Smith, Rosemary Laurey, Patti O'Shea, Angie Fox, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Jamie Leigh Hansen, Carole Nelson Douglas, Diane Whiteside, Jaye Wells, Stacia Kane, Jennifer Ashley, Justine Musk, Jennifer St. Giles, Nancy Holder, Larissa Ione, Jeanne C. Stein, Tiffany Trent, Ann Aguirre, and Devon Monk.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.hclib.org/servlet/BioRC
  2. ↑ "Kim's Bio". Kim Harrison's website. June 10, 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
  3. ↑ McCune, Alisa (March 2005). "A Conversation With Kim Harrison". SF Site. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
  4. ↑ "The Music". Kim Harrison's website. May 31, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
  5. ↑ Dark Star (July 19, 2008). "Dawn Cook Interview (english)". fantasy-news.com. Retrieved August 4, 2008.
  6. 1 2 "Kim Harrison: Secret Identity". Locus. May 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
  7. ↑ "The Books, , Revised: 01/09/2013. Retrieved on 13 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "And the Next Hollows Book Will Be Called". Kim Harrison's blog. May 21, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  9. ↑ "And the Title of the Last Hollows Book Is...". April 14, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2014.

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