 Shannon
Drake New York Times and USA Today best-selling
author Heather Graham, who also writes as Shannon Drake,
majored
in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After
a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals,
and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her
third child and began to write. Her first book was with
Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred
novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical
romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, and Christmas
family fare.
She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty
languages. She has written over 100 novels and has 60 million
books in print. She has been honored with awards from Walden
Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur,
Romantic Times, and more. Heather has also become the proud
recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. Heather
has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the
Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured
in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, Mystery
Book Club, People, and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts
including Today, Entertainment Tonight, and local television.
Heather loves travel
and anything that has to do with the water, and is a certified
scuba diver. She also loves ballroom
dancing. Each year she hosts the Vampire Ball and Dinner theater
at the RT convention raising money for the Pediatric Aids
Society, and in 2006 she hosted the first Writers for New
Orleans Workshop to benefit the stricken Gulf region. She
is” thrilled” to be a Thriller Killerette in the
Thriller Killer Band, and she is also the founder of “The
Slush Pile Players,” presenting something that’s
almost like entertainment for various conferences and benefits.
Married since high school graduation and the mother of five,
her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also
believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is
grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so
very much for a living.
The Death Dealer,
a hardcover, sequel to The Dead Room, was released April
2008. The Flynn Brothers Trilogy will be released
in late September, Deadly Gift in late October, Deadly
Harvest in early November, and in late November, Deadly
Night.
Web Site:
www.theoriginalheathergraham.com
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