Seanan McGuire lives and works in Washington State, where she shares heridiosyncratic home with her collection of books, creepy dolls, and enormous cats. Whennot writing—which is fairly rare—she enjoys travel, and can regularly be found anyplace where there are cornfields, haunted houses, or frogs. A Campbell, Alex, Hugo,and Nebula Award-winning author, Seanan’s debut novel (Rosemary and Rue, the first entry in the New York Times-bestselling October Daye series) was released in 2009, and she has published more than fifty books since. Seanan doesn’t sleep much. Keep up with her at seananmcguire.com