Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton (Laurell Kaye Hamilton) is a US SF writer, best known for her "Anita Blake series" of supernatural mystery thrillers with the eponymous Anita Blake, vampire hunter. Her works often include relatively explicit sex scenes and romance subplots.

Hamilton has said of her strong female characters:

I started reading a lot of hardboiled detective fiction—Robert B. Parker in particular—and I read a lot of strong female protagonists. But there was one problem, a difference between the male and female protagonists of the different series—even the strongest of the women did not get to do some of the things the men got to do. [...] I thought this was unfair. So I wanted a heroine who would be as tough as the men or tougher, who would be able to address all these issues, and I wanted to strike a blow for equality. I may have gone a little far in that direction.

Bibliography

Anita Blake series

1. Guilty Pleasures (1993) ISBN 0-515-13449-X
2. The Laughing Corpse (1994) ISBN 0-425-19200-8
3. Circus of the Damned (1995) ISBN 0-515-13448-1
4. The Lunatic Cafe (1996) ISBN 0-425-20137-6
5. Bloody Bones (1996) ISBN 0-425-20567-3
6. The Killing Dance (1997) ISBN 0-425-20906-7
7. Burnt Offerings (1998) ISBN 0-515-13447-3
8. Blue Moon (1998) ISBN 0-515-13445-7
9. Obsidian Butterfly (2000) ISBN 0-515-13450-3
10. Narcissus in Chains (2001) ISBN 5-558-61270-3
11. Cerulean Sins (2003) ISBN 0-515-13681-6
12. Incubus Dreams (2004) ISBN 0-515-13449-X
13. Micah (2006) ISBN 0-515-14087-2 (novella, released February 28, 2006)
14. Danse Macabre (2006) ISBN 0-425-20797-8 (released June 27, 2006)
15. The Harlequin (2007)

Meredith Gentry series

1. A Kiss of Shadows
2. A Caress of Twilight
3. Seduced by Moonlight
4. A Stroke of Midnight
5. Mistral's Kiss (Just released)
6. A Lick of Frost (forthcoming)

Others

• Nightseer
• Nightshade (Star Trek: The Next Generation authorized novel #24)
• Death of a Darklord (TSR's Ravenloft series.)
• Club Vampyre (Anita Blake collection, published by the Science Fiction Book Club, includes the first three novels in the series: Guilty Pleasure, The Laughing Corpse, and Circus of the Damned)
• Midnight Cafe (Anita Blake collection, published by the Science Fiction Book Club, includes the fourth through sixth novels in the series: The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, and The Killing Dance)
• Black Moon Inn (Anita Blake collection, published by the Science Fiction Book Club, includes the seventh and eighth novels in the series: Burnt Offerings and Blue Moon)
• Out Of This World (1st 100 pages of Narcissus in Chains)
• "A Clean Sweep" (first story in Superheroes, a 1995 anthology)
• Cravings (anthology, 2004)
• Bite (anthology, 2004)
• Strange Candy (14 published and unpublished short stories, released November 2006)