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Pranks For Halloween Parties

What could I do do make my halloween party better?

On this post I’d only like ideas for decorations and games! I’m 14 and I want to have a really cool party- I cant really do anything outside because I live in Alaska and its already like a foot or two of snow by then!

have a woman’s head on a platter

Funny Halloween Pranks

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Buy a Rubber Mouse in NYC?

Where in NYC can I find a gag gift store where I can buy a fake rubber mouse to pull a prank on some one.

Try any of the dollar stores.

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Rizzoli & Isles: The Complete First Season $17.99 Talk about grrrl power! Rizzoli & Isles features the best two-woman crime-solving duo since Cagney & Lacey–supported by terrific writing and outside-the-box cases. Angie Harmon has never been better, as the tough Boston detective Jane Rizzoli. Her partner in crime (solving) is the equally impressive Sasha Alexander as Dr. Maura Isles, the by-the-books medical examiner who always has Rizzoli’s bac…

Neocube 216pc Magnet Puzzle (Keep Away from Children – Age 14+) $28.95 The NeoCube is an entertainment device like no other in the world. The NeoCube is composed of 216 individual high-energy rare-earth magnets. This allows you to create and recreate an outrageous number of shapes and patterns. The NeoCube Is literally a puzzle with billions of solutions. Your NeoCube will provide you with hours and hours of unequaled entertainment!…

4.5 Rotating Red Flashing Beacon Party Lamp DJ Strobe Light $2.99 CAUTION: Halloween fun ahead! Perfect for all your crime fighting needs, or just for good times at home or at events! These 4.5″ red police beacons are great – and are sure to be an arresting development! No plugging in required, so you can put them anywhere – Please note that 3 AA batteries are required….

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how do you use a ghillie suit properly?

I recently bought a ghillie suit from a local army surplus store, My intent is to use it to pull off a few gags on my friends. I guess I should point out that we are tree planters in north ontario and tree planting Practical Jokes are infamous. The ghillie suit I bought is a basic boreal pattern as I am not sure of our exact locations throughout the season. What Im looking for is any advice on the proper use of a ghillie suit and any particular ideas for ghillie related pranks. Please try to avoid obvious answers as we have all played CODMW2. Haha!

A ghillie suit is best suited for medium to long range hiding. Best effective between mid and late afternoon. Ghillie suits tend to work better in a slightly windy condition but have a huge disadvantage of being easy to tangle in brush. They also get extremely hot, so if your in a warmer climate, it’s a good idea to wear a hydration pack underneath it. The trouble with gillie suits is that are all see through to some extent, no matter how small, so it’s a good idea to wear matching camouflage, or at least similar colors to the suit at the time of use. The trick to ghillie suits it so be as still as possible. Most ghille suits look very fake if you pay attention to them. So try and avoid all noise and movement where possible. If there is a slight breeze, time your movements in with it, and move as slowly as you can. Always make sure you know about your suit, as best you can, so practicing with it really helps to avoid getting snagged.

Don’t think that just because your lying down in a bush, your target can’t see you. If your lying down in a bush that is 3/4 your height, the bush is going to look unnaturally thick towards the bottom, try and spread put your body to match the shape of the bush, but if it’s to in comfortable don’t worry about it. Uncomfort and cause a sudden sharp movement, making noise that draws attention. So comfort is your first priority.

Make sure the type of ghillie suit suit the area your in and never use cover that is the same color as the suit. Try and go for similar colors, as it will avoid a blob like effect in your cover, giving away your position.

If your target is very close to you, remember that finding shrubs and brush in a slight ditch or a small hill is very useful, as people tend to watch what they are doing, and don’t lay attention to what’s above or bellow them, that’s why climbing a tree can help, but as ghillie suits often get tangled on branches, this can be a death trap, which is why trees must be avoided.

Try to breath slowly through your mouth, to avoid any unwanted noise, unless the area your in is dusty, in which breathing through your nose can cause caughing, Which is a dead give away.

Rain can often work for, or against you. In the rain avoid we weather gear as it often, unless it’s military issue or hunting gear, makes alot of noise. With no wet weather gear you un the risk of shivering and giving your position away from the rustling you make, but if you lie in a small puddle, you can often get mud on your leaves, making it easier to blend it with the wet background.

Just try to tak into account all the factory of your environment, if it’s dry it’s going to be harder to
move around, if it’s wet it’s going to
be harder to breath.

Be mindful that the ghillie mask often cuts off your vision and you have very little viewing angle, meaning that your best weapon, your eyes, have been impaired.

As ideas for jokes using these techniques, I suggest a hunting slingshot and paintballs, or even watter balloons filled with syrup and flower. It may be a hard thing to perfect, but it’s both painful and scilent, and when the balloons or painballs break, it’s often hard, especially on work clothes, to tell where they are coming from as the shock is spread out. They may get a rough idea of you position but the exact direction is barley Impossible. If you add string silencers from a crossbow to your hunting slingshot, it will make only the slightest thud, that people won’t be able to hear if they are more that 5m away.

If you need more ideas for pranks, or have any questions about the use of ghillie suits, send me a message through my profile.

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Gag Gifts

What are some really good, NOT funny, cheap or gag white elephant gifts for an office christmas party?

My office is having a Christmas party next week and we are doing the white elephant gift exchange and I can’t think of anything to get. The limit is $20. Oh and also keep in mind that I work in an office full of women (ages 18-50) and there is only ONE male, the boss who is 30.

“White Elephant” with a spending limit? You aren’t supposed to spend anything on a white elephant gift. I think your office is confused on the term.

Pick a nicer item from your home that you don’t want anymore and probably would have eventually sold at a garage sale or given to charity, like a candle, vase, nick knack, etc.

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Buy Nintendo Wii: Why you Should Buy Nintendo Wii

The Nintendo Wii has not been liked by some gaming experts, and there have even been a few jokes about it. These people seem to have lost sight of the fact that gaming is supposed to be fun.

The Nintendo Wii is much more than what these experts make it out to be. The remote controller is an attraction by itself for non-gamers and a loveable feature for dedicated players. Although the controller needs a bit of practice for some gamers, it is worth the effort to learn how to play with it. It does need a bit of physical activity, but it adds to the fun of playing games. In addition, it is a link to the past for people who grew up on the original Nintendo games. Isn’t this enough reason for you to buy Nintendo Wii now?

Given that the graphics may not seem to be much better than what they were on the Gamecube; and that they left out some of the polished graphics in order to concentrate on the gaming aspect itself. But it does not matter because they’re just games. Nintendo has always been synonymous with games; the two have always existed together, no matter what the others were doing.

Nintendo has many whiz kids working on their products, but what they’ve done with the Wii is incomparable. In addition to providing for their loyal fans, they have taken up a whole new section of the market of non-gamers with the result that as soon as you hand a Wii remote to any non-gamer, you have them playing games within a short period of time.

The Wii is an incredible and stable system and it will give you trouble-free enjoyment for years to come. Nintendo is committed to it’s continued success and will release new games to keep it interesting.

About the Author

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Obedience to Authority

Many people wonder why these informants go along with this? Why would anyone go along with causing the suicide of their fellow citizens, or enacting cruelty on someones cats, dogs, kids, family, property etc? Why would you knowingly go along with a practice that many would consider to be evil?

The answer is obedience to authority. As long as an authority figure is giving the orders, experiments have shown that most people will go along with whatever is being ordered, even if those orders are to inflict pain on another human being.

Let’s start with the Milgram experiments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mst1h31daV4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

[quote]Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.[4]

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As part of the experiment a stranger off the street is asked to shock an individual as part of a learning or behaviour modification experiment. The person doing the shocking is told that this will help the person to learn the answers to the question. The person being shocked has agreed to the experiment.

The person giving the shocks is giving a test shock of the lowest voltage to see what the pain is like. It’s not pleasant. They are told that if the person fails to answer the question, they are to increase the voltage and to keep shocking the person till they get the answer correct.

The person giving the answers starts to get the questions wrong, they are asked to keep going by the person in authority. The person answering the questions, starts to scream out in pain, sometimes even screaming, my heart, my heart.

Many times the person giving the shock wants to stop what they are doing, but they are told don’t pay it any mind we have to keep going, and so they are goaded on by the experimenter to the end of the experiment. 65% of those in the studied continued to the very end of the voltage metre.

Now imagine you are an average citizen, you are asked to become an Informant by the state, country that you love. At some point you realise that what you are doing is wrong and that people are being harmed. Let’s say you come across a Gang Stalking website, and realise what you are taking part in. How can you stop?

First you are bound by a gag order, so you can’t say anything. Second if you go to the police, local authorities, they are taking part, so you can’t go there, human rights organizations, the same thing. Since becoming an Informant you realise that this is systemic and that the majority of your community is in some way taking part. What do you do where do you turn?

You can ask to not take part, but many people are afraid of being targeted themselves the same way, experiencing the same sort of harassment. There is a real cult like mentality about what is happening, even if most people do not identify it as such, so how would you get out, much less help the target?

In many cases they can’t, and some of them are as trapped as we are. Either get the punishment or give the punishment. Not a great choice. This is not true for all of them, some are just really lowlifes and happy to go along with this, and would report anyone not following suit.

Within the system you can try to hint to the target about what is happening, try to help expose what is happening. Don’t allow yourself to feel or become powerless, keep thinking, keep finding ways, try to keep feeling. Remain hopeful. If you let the stress of the situation overwhelm you, a part of you disassociates emotionally, and you became biddable, capable of not much but following orders.

How quickly can this shift come about, in a really short space of time. The Milgram experiment happened within an hour or two.

The next experiment happened over a few days.

The Stanford Prison Experiment.

http://www.prisonexp.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

The scary part about this, is that thy knew in advance that they were part of an experiment, they were paid for it and everything. Which should indicate that they would be able to leave if they wanted to, but that did not happen.

The experiment was suppose to last 2 weeks, but had to be ended after six days. One group of students were assigned to the role of prisoners, another to the role of guards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0jYx8nwjFQ

[quote]
As the experiment proceeded, several guards became progressively sadistic. Experimenters said that approximately one-third of the guards exhibited genuine sadistic tendencies. Interestingly, most of the guards were upset when the experiment concluded early.

Zimbardo argued that the prisoner participants had internalized their roles, based on the fact that some had stated that they would accept parole even with the attached condition of forfeiting all of their experiment-participation pay. Yet, when their parole applications were all denied, none of the prisoner participants quit the experiment. Zimbardo argued they had no reason for continued participation in the experiment after having lost all monetary compensation, yet they did, because they had internalised the prisoner identity, they thought themselves prisoners, hence, they stayed.
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The prisoners (students pretending to be prisoners) started to riot, the cops (students pretending to be cops) started to get brutal with them. Made them do all sorts of sick and sadistic things. Tried to get some to turn into snitches, one prisoner faked being crazy to get out, they turned on each other in some cases, and just fell in line with obeying authority, in most cases. The person conducting the experiment actually thought he was a warden, he got so caught up in the role.

[quote]In psychology, the results of the experiment are said to support situational attributions of behavior rather than dispositional attribution. In other words, it seemed the situation caused the participants’ behavior, rather than anything inherent in their individual personalities. In this way, it is compatible with the results of the also-famous Milgram experiment, in which ordinary people fulfilled orders to administer what appeared to be damaging electric shocks to a confederate of the experimenter.[/quote]

The experiment at the time was used to help better understand the psychological changes that prisoners and their jailers go through. Later it was used to help explain the situation at Abu Ghraib with the prisoner abuses.

The Strip Search Prank Call

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam

This experiment was anything but. Because a crank caller pretended to be an authority figure. Police officer. Average sheeple were willing to carry out horrible actions on innocent people.

[quote]The strip search prank call scam was a series of incidents occurring for roughly a decade before 2004. These incidents involved a man calling a restaurant, claiming to be a police detective, and convincing managers to conduct strip-searches of female employees. Reports of over 70 such occurrences in 30 U.S. states finally led to the arrest and charging of David R. Stewart, a 37-year-old Florida corrections officer.[/quote]

These are a few of the incidents that occurred in the wake of these phone calls.

[quote]
A call to a McDonald’s restaurant in Hinesville, Georgia resulted in a janitor performing a body cavity search on a 19-year old cashier.[5]
A 17-year-old customer at a Taco Bell in Phoenix, Arizona was strip-searched by a manager receiving this kind of prank call.[6]

On Nov. 30, 2000, the caller persuaded the manager at a McDonald’s in Leitchfield, Kentucky, to remove her own clothes in front of a customer whom the caller said was suspected of sex offenses. The caller promised that undercover officers would burst in and arrest the customer the moment he attempted to molest her, said Detective Lt. Gary Troutman of the Leitchfield Police Department.[7]

On May 29, 2002, a girl celebrating her 18th birthday — in her first hour of her first day on the job at the McDonald’s in Roosevelt, Iowa — was forced to strip, jog naked and assume a series of embarrassing poses, all at the direction of a caller on the phone, according to court and news accounts.[8]

On Jan. 26, 2003, according a police report in Davenport, Iowa, an assistant manager at an Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar conducted a degrading 90-minute search of a waitress at the behest of a caller who said he was a regional manager — even though the man had called collect, and despite the fact the assistant manager had read a company memo warning about hoax calls just a month earlier. He later told police he’d forgotten about the memo.[9] [/quote]

His downfall came when he was able to get one of these sheeple to sexually assault a teenage girl over the phone. All the while giving the instructions. She complied, because an authority figure was on the phone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFXeXK3szOk

http://www.mahalo.com/Louise_Ogborn_Video

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The final prank call in this scheme was made to a McDonald’s restaurant in Mount Washington, Kentucky on April 9, 2004. According to assistant manager Donna Summers, the caller identified himself as a policeman, ‘Officer Scott’, he described an employee whom he said was suspected of stealing a customer’s purse. Summers called 18-year-old employee Louise Ogborn to her office and told her of the suspicion. Following the instructions of the caller, Summers ordered Ogborn first to empty her pockets, and finally to remove all her clothing except for an apron, in an effort to find the stolen items. Again following the caller’s instructions, Summers had another employee watch Ogborn when she had to leave the office to check the restaurant. The first employee, 27 year old Jason Bradley, whom she asked to stay there refused to after he was on the phone with the caller, so she phoned her fiance Walter Nix, asking him to come in to ‘help’ with the situation. [10]

According to Ogborn, after Summers passed off the phone to Nix, he continued to do as the caller told, even as the caller’s requests became progressively more bizarre. A security camera recorded Nix forcing Ogborn to remove her apron, the only article of clothing she was still wearing, and to assume degrading positions, such as standing on a chair and getting on all fours. When Ogborn refused to obey the caller’s instructions, Nix hits the 90 lb Ogborn on the buttocks several times creating painful red welts, and at one point he does this for 10 minutes. At the caller’s request, Nix then threatens to beat Ogborn again and forces Ogborn to kiss him and then perform oral sex on him. Ogborn says at the point of sexual assault she was scarred for life.[11] The tape showed that Summers re-entered the office several times and dismissed Ogborn’s pleas for help, a statement which Summers denies.

When another employee was asked to take part and objected, Summers decided to call the store manager, whom the caller claimed to have on another phone line. She then discovered that the store manager had not spoken to any police officers, and that the call had been a hoax. A quick-thinking employee dialed *69 to determine that the caller had called from a supermarket pay phone in Panama City, Florida. Summers then called police, who arrested Nix and began an investigation to find the caller. [/quote]

The above scenario is really sick and hard to believe that something like that could happen, mush less that similar circumstances happened at least 70 times prior to this incident, but it’s true.

Other events show us that people are willing to kill upon request, even innocent woman, children and the elderly, while others are not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHk4TGWx0ZM

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the My Lai massacre where the US army in Vietnam slaughtered 500 unarmed civilians, many women and children.

Some victims were sexually abused, beaten, tortured, maimed and mutilated.

Three U.S. servicemen who made an effort to halt the massacre and protect the wounded were sharply criticized by US Congressmen, received hate mail, death threats and mutilated animals on their doorsteps. Only 30 years after the event were their efforts honored.

American media first claimed 100 had been killed in a fierce fire fight.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

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Charlie Company landed following a short artillery and helicopter gunship preparation. The soldiers found no enemy fighters in the village on the morning of March 16. Many suspected there were NLF troops in the village, hiding underground in the homes of their elderly parents or their wives. The U.S. soldiers, one platoon of which was led by Second Lieutenant William Calley, went in shooting at “suspected enemy position”. After the first civilians were killed and wounded by the indiscriminate fire, the soldiers soon began attacking anything that moved, humans and animals alike, with firearms, grenades and bayonets. The scale of the massacre only spiraled as it progressed, the brutality increasing with each killing. BBC News described the scene:

“ Soldiers went berserk, gunning down unarmed men, women, children and babies. Families which huddled together for safety in huts or bunkers were shown no mercy. Those who emerged with hands held high were murdered. … Elsewhere in the village, other atrocities were in progress. Women were gang raped; Vietnamese who had bowed to greet the Americans were beaten with fists and tortured, clubbed with rifle butts and stabbed with bayonets. Some victims were mutilated with the signature “C Company” carved into the chest. By late morning word had got back to higher authorities and a cease-fire was ordered. My Lai was in a state of carnage. Bodies were strewn through the village.[12] ”

More victims at My Lai. Photo by Ronald L. HaeberleDozens of people were herded into an irrigation ditch and other locations and killed with automatic weapons[13]. A large group of about 70 to 80 villagers, rounded up by the 1st Platoon in the center of the village, were killed personally by Calley and by soldiers he had ordered to fire. Calley also shot two other large groups of civilians with a weapon taken from a soldier who had refused to do any further killing.

Members of the 2nd Platoon killed at least 60-70 Vietnamese men, women, and children, as they swept through the northern half of My Lai 4 and through Binh Tay, a small subhamlet about 400 meters north of My Lai 4.[1]

After the initial “sweeps” by the 1st and the 2nd Platoons, the 3rd Platoon was dispatched to deal with any “remaining resistance”. They immediately began killing every still-living human and animal they could find, including shooting the Vietnamese who emerged from their hiding places, and finishing off the wounded found moaning in the heaps of bodies. The 3rd Platoon also rounded up and killed a group of 7 to 12 women and children.[1]

Since Charlie Company had encountered no enemy opposition, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, was moved into its landing zone between and attacked the subhamlet of My Khe 4, killing as many as 90 people. U.S. forces lost one man killed and seven wounded from mines and booby traps.[1] During the next two days, both battalions were involved in additional burning and destruction of dwellings, and in the mistreatment of Vietnamese detainees.

Most of the soldiers had not participated in the crimes, but neither did they protest or complain to their superiors.[14]
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At the end of the day what can really be said about these incidents are occurrences? Why are some people driven by a higher authority, a greater code of conduct than others? Why are some not willing to go along with this, when others just fall in line, or stand helplessly by and let these atrocities happen? Why do some decline to become Informants for the system while others just accept? Why do some just go along with injustice and corruption, while others turn away from all appearances of evil?
Why do some question, while others don’t?

There are a variety of reasons, many people are culturally engineered or programed to obey authority, many have never been in a similar situation before and their survival instinct is to comply, because everyone else is going along with it. Humans for the most part are social creatures and very few have the capacity to stand on their own, or be excluded from society, friends, family, neighbours and if the corruption, or atrocity is systemic, most will just fall in line with what is happening, just like in Nazi Germany.

About the Author

I am a target of a practice called Gang Stalking. I have been researching and investigating it for the last two years and these are some brief findings that I would like to share.

http://www.GangStalkingUnited.com

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Old People Gag Gifts for my dad’s 50th birthday?

My dad’s turning 50,and at our family’s big 4th of July Party Saturday he’s going to open all the gifts we got him. We want to give him old men things as a joke like denture bath and other stuff. Any Ideas would be great!

a toopay (sorry bad spelling) or bifocals or suspenders or….the possibilities are unlimited!! Have fun at the partay!

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What are some great graphic novels involving superheroes?

not really need to be super heroes, but a graphic novel Marvel / DC. Me and my family are going to New York and the room is like a block of a comic book store. I know most of heroes and I read the wonder of civil war, a just punishment / Batman graphic novels. Things like that I marvel zombies here that is fine, what do you think I have? Thanks for the help PS How do you rate an answer as the best response? I can not for the life of me solve it.

It depends brother. First graphic novel and a tradepaperback are two different things in a graphic novel is an original work. A tradepaperback other hand is a compilation of different stories or a story arc complete (a series of questions related). Some good original works would be the Joker, JLA: Earth 2, The Dark Knight or JLA: Heaven ladder. Some professionals would walk 1 dead, The Watchmen, Preacher, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Identity Crisis and Infinite Gauntlet.

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Sherrilyn Kenyon

Biography

Early years

Childhood

Sherrilyn Kenyon was born in Columbus, Georgia while her father was stationed at Ft. Benning, GA. Kenyon’s father abandoned the family when she was eight (he returned to the family her senior year of high school), leaving her mother to raise Kenyon, her younger brother, and her older sister, Trish, who has severe cerebral palsy, alone. Kenyon’s brother was sent to live with their grandparents in Atlanta, Georgia while Kenyon stayed in Columbus to help care for her sister. After 18 months of separation, the family was reunited when Kenyon and her mother and sister moved to Atlanta also. Kenyon’s first recognition for her writing came when she won a contest in third grade by writing an essay about her single mother for Mother’s Day and it was followed a year later when she won a DAR Award for a historical story she wrote about a girl living in Colonial Virginia.

Kenyon was raised in the middle of eight boys, but only two of them were actually her brothers. The other six were her cousins who, due to family crisis, lived with her family off an on most of her early life and young adulthood. She also has two older sisters.

Even as a child Kenyon knew that she wanted to be a writer as it provided her an escape from an abusive childhood. She is a big advocate against child abuse and participates in fundraisers to help other victims. In kindergarten, she wrote in her Brownie manual that she wanted to be a writer and a mother when she grew up. Yet neither of those ever came easy for her. At age seven she wrote and illustrated her first novel, Sharron’s Secret, a horror story about a girl who uses her psychic powers to kill her brothers and takeover her school. At fourteen Kenyon made her first professional sale, and continued to write for school newspapers, yearbooks, local papers and magazines throughout high school and college. She gained her love of horror, zombies and paranormal films and novels from her mother, who never censored what movies the young girl was allowed to watch. Her mother even took her to see Night of the Living Dead at a drive-in theater when she was only four years old.

College Years

Kenyon originally intended to major in art in college so that she could become a comic book developer. She was accepted into the Savannah College of Art and Design, but was unable to afford the tuition to attend. She entered a state college instead where she majored in English, hoping to be admitted into the Creative Writing program. Her first semester of college, she was placed in a remedial English course due to her dyslexia which resulted in a low score on the placement test. The first day of class, her professor realized the mistake and had her placed in an advanced English class that the professor taught. Kenyon spent two years as an English major and as an editor for the school paper. She applied three times for admission to the Creative Writing program, but was never admitted. After her third attempt, the professor asked her not to apply again as the program was designed for students who had a serious future in publishing. Disheartened, Kenyon tried to switch her major to journalism, but was unable to be admitted there because she couldn’t pass the typing test required of all students. Kenyon’s right hand is partially paralyzed, making it difficult for her to type on a typewriter. With those doors closed to her, Kenyon switched majors to history. Kenyon graduated with an interdisciplinary major that combined medieval history and language with Classical Studies. She had enough credits to also earn minors in philosophy, psychology, and French, and to earn a certificate of Medieval Studies.

When Kenyon was 20, she decided it was time to take her experience writing for magazines and parlay it into the book market. Just as she finished her manuscript and prepared to send it to publishers, her older brother who was a staunch supporter of her work died, and a devastated Kenyon lost the desire to write. That same brother had borrowed a typewriter from his roommate over the Christmas break at school so that she could type up her manuscript for submission. His last words to her about her writing were, “I know this one’s a winner, baby. I can’t wait to see it in print.” That manuscript later become her novel, Born of Night.

Resuming Writing

Three years later, Kenyon moved to Richmond, Virginia to marry her longtime boyfriend. While moving her things in, her husband came across her old novels and writings, and asked her why she didn’t write anymore. Kenyon told him her desire to write had died with her brother and packed her manuscripts away. Due to the recession, Kenyon was unable to find a job of any kind. A childhood friend mentioned that the magazine she was editing needed several articles written and offered them to Kenyon. Although Kenyon had not written a word of fiction since her brother’s death, Kenyon agreed to write the articles. As soon as she began the work she once again began feeling that writing was something she had to do. Even though they had very little money, as soon as her husband found out that she was writing again he immediately bought her a Brother word processor. He set it up in a corner of their apartment on a card table and with a ten dollar steno chair.

Two years later Kenyon sold her first book, Born of Night, with five more sales coming quickly. She won several awards and made several bestseller lists, but after the publication of her sixth novel she found herself unable to get another writing contract. For a total of four and a half years (1994 – 1998), Kenyon was unable to sell any of her manuscripts.

Hardships

While her career plummeted, Kenyon was in the midst of a great deal of turmoil in her personal life. Her father died in February 1995 from cancer. A very difficult pregnancy cost her her job. The baby arrived seven weeks early and was forced to spend six weeks in the neo-natal intensive care unit, and Kenyon barely survived this delivery. Because her husband was just finishing school, and with her inability to work and their high medical bills, the family “lost everything [we] had which wasn’t much.” As a result, the couple and their severely ill son were forced to live out of their car in the parking lot of a hotel in Columbus, MS until they were finally able to find lodging in a rundown apartment. Later that same year, her mother was diagnosed with cancer, and Kenyon became pregnant again. This second pregnancy resulted in serious medical issues as well, causing Kenyon to be hospitalized for the majority of the time. With her mother unable to visit because of her condition, her son restricted from visiting, and her husband spending most of his time taking care of their son and his medical issues, Kenyon turned again to her fiction where she wrote the two books that would ultimately relaunch her career.

Once her second baby was born and she was able to work again, Kenyon took a minimum wage job teaching computers. From there she worked as a web designer, still writing at every spare moment. Her agent, who’d stayed with her through all the years she hadn’t been selling, continued to submit her work but every submission was turned down.

Career

Fiction

In 1997, Kenyon received the rejection she credits with relaunching her career and forever changing the course of her writing style. At that time, the hottest novels being published on the market were Regency-set historical romances. Since her critique partners at the time were well-known authors in the field, Kenyon sat down and wrote such a novel. Her agent and critique partners loved it, yet it was the manuscript that garnered her the worst rejection of her career. “No one at this publishing house will ever be interested in this author. Do not submit her work to us again.” Kenyon was again devastated. Since they were still living in poverty, Kenyon promised her husband that she would never spend another cent on chasing a dream that obviously wasn’t meant to be.

But she couldn’t stop writing. That rejection spurred her to stop paying attention to what was selling to New York. She spent the next few months writing books for herself while listening to the characters and not the market reports. When it was done, Kenyon sent her latest work to her agent who did not like the manuscript at all and declined to further represent her. Believing her career was over and with no money left to pursue it on her own, Kenyon set her work aside.

A few weeks later, Kenyon saw a notice in a writing magazine that Laura Cifelli at HarperCollins was looking for manuscripts. Since Cifelli had been Kenyon’s agent at the beginning of her career, Kenyon sent a single query letter to her. Kenyon offered Cifelli two books. The first in the Dark-Hunter series and the one her agent had left her over. Cifelli declined the paranormal idea because there was no market for those story lines. But she asked to see the historical. Kenyon borrowed money from a neighbor to send that manuscript to New York and Cifelli offered Kenyon a three book contract. . Since the historical was very different from the paranormals and science fiction novels of her early career, Cifelli asked if Kenyon would mind using a pseudonym. Kenyon who was now superstitious over her real name since her initial foray had been so short-lived, chose Kinley MacGregor (the irony here is that even though the MacGregor name appeared on all the bestseller lists first, it would be under the Kenyon name that she would gain her greatest accolades). The MacGregor part pays tribute to Kenyon’s Scottish ancestry and to her family who, there for a time, was forbidden to use their real names because of their conflict with a rival clan. The name seemed more than fitting for her to use to rebuild her career.

Even as Kenyon submitted her Kinley MacGregor manuscripts, she continued to work on her vampire stories. At the urging of her editor, she contracted with a new agent in late 1998. Even though that agent had never represented paranormal before and was reluctant to do so because there was no market for that style of novel, Kenyon convinced her to submit them. The Dark-Hunter novels were turned down by every house. Some even more than once. But by that summer the agent found a home for them at St. Martin’s Press when Jennifer Enderlin bought them. It was almost ten years to the day from the time Kenyon had submitted the first Dark-Hunter novel to the day one was contracted.

Kenyon is best known for her Dark-Hunter series, which comprise the Dark-Hunters, Were-Hunters and Dream-Hunters stories. The books deviate from traditional vampire stories in that the vampires, called Daimons, only live twenty-seven years due to a curse from the god Apollo who appears frequently in the series. To elongate their lives, the Daimon vampires are forced to take human souls in order to live. Apollo’s sister, the goddess Artemis, set up an army of immortal warriors called the Dark-Hunters to kill the Daimons and free the human souls before the souls die. A few of the original Dark-Hunter heroes were taken out of fantasy stories Kenyon wrote in middle and high school.

During the mid-1980s, while working for a small science fiction magazine called The Cutting Edge, her boss asked her to write a long-running serial for the magazine. She brought many of her favorite characters from her previous fantasies into one larger series. This was the start of the Dark-Hunter world. In this series, which has now been percolating for over twenty years, Kenyon has created an entire universe, the rules of which are maintained solely in her head.

Non-Fiction

In addition to her successful fiction career, Kenyon has also written several non-fiction books. She wrote the Character-Naming Sourcebook, which was finally purchased and published by Writer’s Digest. Writer’s Digest was interested in launching a new series of books, and, because of Kenyon’s background in studying the Middle Ages, she was asked to write Everyday Life in the Middle Ages. When the line was looking for a writer for their Writer’s Complete Fantasy Reference, they again turned to Kenyon.

The Character Naming Source Book, has its roots in Kenyon’s childhood. When Kenyon began writing her own stories as a small child, she began keeping a list of names that she liked for future use. As she aged, she continued to develop the list, eventually organizing it by origin, so that if she were writing a French character she could easily find a French name. When fellow author Cathy Maxwell saw the list, she insisted that Kenyon should submit it for publication, as other writers would find it invaluable.

Graphic novels

Because of her lifelong love of Comic Books, graphic novels and manga (Kenyon credits her ability to read to her older brother who used Spiderman Comics to teach her), in May 2006, Dabel Brothers Productions (“DB Pro”), then in partnership with Marvel Comics, announced the signing of an exclusive contract with Kinley MacGregor (a.k.a. Sherrilyn Kenyon), to adapt the novels in her Arthurian fantasy series, Lords of Avalon.

Lords of Avalon was intended to be produced as a monthly comic starting summer 2007, with a script adapted by Roynne Gillespie (The Burning Man) and artwork by Tommy Ohtsuka. A graphic novel edition of Sword of Darkness, the first novel in the series, was originally supposed to have been available in Summer 2007 but was delayed as Dabel Brothers and Marvel Comics ended their partnership. Lords of Avalon: Sword of Darkness was eventually published by Marvel Comics, rather than Dabel Brothers, with a cover date of November 2008.

Though Kenyon was in contract discussions with St. Martin’s Press to have a Dark-Hunter manga adaptation as far back as 2003, it wasn’t until 2006 when St. Martin’s brought in Dabel Brothers Productions (“DB Pro”) to be the packager of the books that they were able to move forward. Because Kenyon credits herself with being an Otaku (in the American sense of the word), it would be several months before an artist could be found that Kenyon approved of. Claudia Campos who is known for her work with Tokyopop was chosen. The first Dark-Hunter manga artwork appeared in Kenyon’s nonfiction compendium, The Dark-Hunter Companion, in November 2007. It would take another year before Kenyon approved a writer for the adaption of her words, Joshua Hale Fialkov of Afro-Samurai, Elk’s Run, Cyblade, Vampirella and Alibi fame. The Dark-Hunter manga will finally debut May 2009.

E-Books

As a result of her love of technology, Kenyon had one of the first e-books published by the now defunct Dreams Unlimited. She was the first New York published author to contract in this emerging medium.

Family Life

Kenyon is severely dyslexic. She is also ambidextrous. Kenyon can write a first draft of a novel in three to four weeks, although she has been known to completely finish a novel in less than four weeks. Her usual time for a novel, however, is four to nine months. In her spare time, Kenyon plays the guitar, flute, piano, and the drums. As a child and young woman, she was a sparring partner for two Golden Glove boxers. She was also a football quarterback and an award-winning cook. A past member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, she is currently a member of Horror Writers of America, the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Romance Writers Association.

Kenyon jokingly states that she only owns three pieces of clothing that are not black (a white chemise for Ren faires and two pairs of jeans) and fans have noted her obsession with this wardrobe choice. She has described her personal style as what happens to Goth when you get older, and claims that her obsession with wearing all black happened when her mother refused to buy her a black velvet dress when she was in first grade.

Over the years and due to what she humorously calls “her children’s need to eat,” Kenyon has worked a variety of jobs: D.J., photographer (her publishing credits include the Washington Post), store clerk, cook, baker, dollmaker, painter, camerawoman, freelance journalist, janitor, waitress, teacher, ditch-digger, psychic, web designer, programmer, and bookseller.

Kenyon is married and has three sons. The family lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with a menagerie of pets that include dogs, cats, fish, chickens, rabbits and reptiles..

Bibliography

As Sherrilyn Kenyon

The League Series

“Born of the Night,” (Pinnacle, 1996) (ISBN 0-78600-222-0)

“Born of Fire,” (ebook Dreams Unlimited, 1997) (ISBN 1-89252-004-4)

“Paradise City,” (Love Spell, 1994) (ISBN 0-50551-969-0)

“Fire & Ice,” in the anthology “Man of My Dreams” (Jove, 2004) (ISBN 0-51513-793-6)

Dark-Hunter series

The Dark-Hunters are immortal warriors pledged to the Greek goddess Artemis and dedicated to defending mankind against Daimons (vampires) and other assorted enemies: including a couple of rogue gods and goddesses.

Fantasy Lover, (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2002) (ISBN 0-31297-997-5)

“The Beginning” , also in the back of Sins of the Night early print editions (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2002)

“Dragonswan”, in the anthology Tapestry, published by Jove (2002, ISBN 0-51513-362-0) and reprinted singly by Berkley (2005, ISBN 0-51514-079-1)

Night Pleasures, (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2002) (ISBN 0-31297-998-3)

Amanda Devereaux has a crazy family. Her mother and older siblings are witches and psychics, and her twin sister is a vampire hunter. All Amanda wants is a quiet, normal life. Only when she finds herself the target of an attack meant for her twin, she wakes to find herself handcuffed to a sexy, blonde stranger.

He is Kyrian of Thrace. And while Amanda’s first thought is that this might be another of her sister’s attempt at extreme match-making, it soon becomes clear that Kyrian is not boyfriend material.

He is a Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul for one moment of vengeance upon his enemies. Kyrian spends his eternal days hunting the vampires and daimons that prey upon mankind. He is currently on the hunt for a very old and dealy daimon called Desiderius who has deemed it sport to handcuff Kyrian to a human while he hunts him. Now Kyrian and Amanda must find a way to break their bond lest they give into their dangerous attraction to one another. Or Desiderius kills them both.

Night Embrace, (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2003) (ISBN 0-31298-482-0)

“Phantom Lover”, in the anthology Midnight Pleasures (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2003) (ISBN 0-31298-762-5)

Dance with the Devil, (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2003) (ISBN 0-31298-483-9)

“A Dark-Hunter Christmas”, , also in the back of Dance with the Devil early print editions (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2003)

Kiss of the Night, (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2004) (ISBN 0-31299-241-6)

Night Play, (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2004) (ISBN 0-31299-242-4)

“Winter Born”, in the anthology Stroke of Midnight (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2004) (ISBN 0-31299-876-7)

Seize the Night, (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2005) (ISBN 0-31299-243-2)

Valerius isn’t a popular dark-hunter-he’s a Roman, which means that the largely Greek Hunters have a major grudge against him and his civilisation for superseding them. To make things worse , he’s very conscious of his aristocratic background and breeding. So it serves him right when he runs into Tabitha Devereaux. She’s sassy, sexy and completely unwilling to take him seriously. (Not to mention Tabitha is also the sister in law of Kyrian, a former Dark-Hunter and Val’s mortal enemy.)

What Tabitha does take seriously is hunting and killing vampires, and soon she and Val have to grapple with the deadliest of all daimons-one who’s managed to come back from the dead, and one who holds a serious grudge against both of them. To win against evil, Val will have to loosen up, learn to trust and put everything on the line to protect a man he hates and a woman who drives him nuts.

Sins of the Night, (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2005) (ISBN 0-31293-432-7)

“Second Chances”, in Exclusive Dark-Hunter Collectible Booklet (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2005), free giveaway

Unleash the Night, (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2005) (ISBN 0-31293-433-5)

Dark Side of the Moon (St. Martin’s Press, 2006, reprinted by St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2007)(HB ISBN 0-31235-743-5, PB ISBN 0-31293-434-3)

“A Hard Day’s Night-Searcher”, in the anthology My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006) (ISBN 0-31234-360-4)

“Until Death We Do Part”, in the anthology Love At First Bite (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2006) (ISBN 0-31234-929-7)

“Fear the Darkness”, free ebook (St. Martin’s Press, 2007)

The Dream-Hunter (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2007) (ISBN 0-31293-881-0)

Devil May Cry (St. Martin’s Press, 2007, reprinted by St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2008) (HB ISBN 0-31236-950-6, PB ISBN 0-31294-686-4)

Upon the Midnight Clear (St. Martin’s Paperback, 2007) (ISBN 0-31294-705-4)

The Dark-Hunter Companion, co-author Alethea Kontis (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007) (ISBN 0-31236-343-5)

Dream Chaser (St. Martin’s Paperback, 2008) (ISBN 0-31293-882-9)

Acheron (St. Martin’s Press, 2008) (ISBN 0-312-36215-3)

One Silent Night (St. Martin’s Press, 2008) (ISBN 0-31294-706-2)

“Shadow of the Moon”, in the anthology Dead After Dark (St. Martin’s Press, 2008) (ISBN 0-31294-798-4)

Dream Warrior (St. Martin’s Press, 2009) (ISBN 0-31293-883-7)

Bad Moon Rising (St. Martin’s Press, 2009)

B.A.D. Agency Series

Published by Simon & Schuster

“BAD to the Bone”, in the anthology Big Guns Out of Uniform (2005) (ISBN 1-41650-967-4)

“Captivated By You”, in the anthology Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down: Three Tales of Erotic Romance (2005) (ISBN 1-41650-159-2)

Bad Attitude, (2005) (HB ISBN 1-41650-356-0, PB ISBN 1-41652-029-5)

Born to Be B.A.D., a reprint of the BAD stories PLUS a new short story called “One BAD Night” (2005) (ISBN 1-41650-750-7)

“Turn Up the Heat”, in the anthology Playing Easy to Get (Pocket, 2006) (ISBN 1-41651-087-7)

Phantom of the Night, (2008) (ISBN 1-41650-357-9)

“Whispered Lies,” (2009) (ISBN 9-781416-597421)

Nevermore Series

TBA/2007

Other Novels and Novellas

Daemon’s Angel, (Leisure, 1995) (ISBN 0-50552-026-5)

“Love Bytes”, in the anthology Naughty or Nice (St. Martin’s Press, 2000) (ISBN 0-31298-102-3)

“Knightly Dreams”, in the anthology What Dreams May Come (Penguin Group, 2005) (ISBN 0-42521-085-5)

Essays

“The Search of Spike’s Balls”, in Seven Seasons of Buffy edited by Ben Bella (ISBN 1-93210-008-3)

“Parting Gifts”, in Five Seasons of Angel edited by Glenn Yeffeth (ISBN 1-93210-033-4)

Non-Fiction

The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages, (Writer’s Digest, 1995)

The Writer’s Complete Fantasy Reference: An Indispensable Compendium of Myth and Magic, (Writer’s Digest, 2000)

The Writer’s Digest Character Naming Sourcebook, with Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet (ISBN 0-89879-632-6)

The Writer’s Digest Character Naming Sourcebook, 2nd ed. (ISBN 1-58297-295-8)

Writing as Kinley MacGregor

Published by Avon (HarperCollins Publishers) unless noted otherwise.

The Sea Wolves Series

Master of Seduction, (2000) (ISBN 0-06108-712-2)

A Pirate of Her Own, (2004) (ISBN 0-06108-711-4)

The MacAllisters Series

Master of Desire, (2001) (ISBN 0-06108-713-0)

Claiming the Highlander, (2002) (ISBN 0-38081-789-6)

Born in Sin, (2003) (ISBN 0-38081-790-X)

Taming the Scotsman, (2003) (ISBN 0-38081-791-8)

“Midsummer’s Knight”, in the anthology Where’s My Hero? (2003) (ISBN 0-06050-524-9)

The Warrior, (2007)

Brotherhood of the Sword Series

Born in Sin, (2003) (ISBN 0-38081-790-X)

Taming the Scotsman, (2003) (ISBN 0-38081-791-8)

“Midsummer’s Knight”, in the anthology Where’s My Hero? (2003) (ISBN 0-06050-524-9)

A Dark Champion, (2004) (ISBN 0-06056-541-1)

Return of the Warrior, (2005) (ISBN 0-06056-543-8)

The Warrior, (2007) (ISBN 0-06079-667-7)

Lords of Avalon Series

Sword of Darkness, (2006)(ISBN 0-06056-544-6)

Knight of Darkness, (2006) (ISBN 0-06079-662-6)

“The Wager”, in the anthology Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Tor Books, 2006)

Other Novels and Novellas

“Santa Wears Spurs”, in the anthology All I Want for Christmas (St. Martin’s Press, 1999) (ISBN 0-31297-680-1)

Awards

Sherrilyn Kenyon has received numerous nominations and awards both under her name and as Kinley MacGregor.

Past Awards

Maggie Award of Excellence

MARA Award

Holt Medallion

Heart Rate Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award

Amazon.com’s Hot 100

Amazon.com’s Movers & Shakers

Amazon.com’s Best Seller for 2001

RT Kiss Award

Fool For Love

Affaire de Coeur Reader’s Choice

Sapphire Award

RT Reviewer’s Choice Awards

2002

Top Ten Books of the Year from RWA (Romance Writer’s Association) – Fantasy Lover

Prism

Best Fantasy – Fantasy Lover

Best Light Paranormal – Night Pleasures

Night Pleasures and Fantasy Lover were finalists in the Aspen Gold contest.

Night Pleasures and Fantasy Lover were finalists in the GRW Maggie Award.

Night Pleasures won the HOLT Medallion.

PEARL (Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature) (2002)

Best Shape-Shifter – Night Pleasures

Best Fantasy/Magical – Fantasy Lover

Best Novella or Short Story – Dragonswan

Best Anthology – Tapestry, with Madeline Hunter, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lynn Kurland, Karen Marie Moning

Best Overall Paranormal, Honorable Mention – Fantasy Lover

Night Pleasures and Fantasy Lover are double finalists in the Holt Medallion Award.

RIO (Reviewers International Organization) (20023)

Favorite Anthology – Tapestry

Favorite Paranormal, Honorable Mention – Fantasy Lover

Laurel Wreath Award for Night Pleasures

Love Romances 2002 Golden Rose Reader Choice Awards Winner:

Best Historical Romance – Claiming the Highlander

Best Paranormal Romance (Honorable Mention) – Fantasy Lover

Best Novella (Honorable Mention) – Dragonswan

Best Romanctic Anthology (Honorable Mention) – Tapestry

Best Medieval Romance – Claiming the Highlander

Best Time Travel (Honorable Mention) – Dragonswan

Best Romantic Sci-Fi Fantasy – Fantasy Lover

RT Booklovers Reviewer’s Choice

Best Historical Anthology, Nominee – Tapestry

Best Vampire Romance – Night Pleasures

Best Scottish Historical Romance – Claiming the Highlander

2002 RBL Hughie Awards:

Best Anthology – Tapestry

Best New to You Author – Sherrilyn Kenyon/Kinley MacGregor

Favorite Secondary Character (Male) Talon (Night Pleasures)

Funniest Scene: The handcuffs scene (Night Pleasures)

Best Line or Quote – “Be kind to Dragonswans, for thou art gorgeous when naked and taste good with Cool Whip.” (Dragonswan)

Best Medieval Historical Romance – Claiming the Highlander

2003-2004

Prism (2004)

Best Dark Paranormal – Dance with the Devil

Best Light Paranormal – Night Embrace

RIO (Reviewers International Organization) (2003)

Favorite Paranormal – Dance With The Devil

The Golden Quill for Best Paranormal, Dance with the Devil

The Bookseller’s Best Award for Born in Sin, Best Long Historical and Dance with the Devil for Best Paranormal (Night Embrace was second)

Night Embrace won the Contemporary category of the Scarlet Letter award and is named Grand Champion of all the winners.

Night Embrace and Born in Sin won the HOLT Medallion

Night Embrace won the Laurie

Born in Sin won the Beacon for Best Historical

Born in Sin won the Yellow Rose for Best Historical

Sapphires for Dance with the Devil and “Phantom Lover”.

Love Romances 2003 Golden Rose Reader Choice Awards Winner:

Born In Sin – Kinley MacGregor – Best Historical Romance

Dance With The Devil – Sherrilyn Kenyon – Best Paranormal Romance

Dance With The Devil – Sherrilyn Kenyon – Best Vampire Romance

Dance With The Devil – Sherrilyn Kenyon – Best Book Cover- Artist Unknown

“Phantom Lover” (Midnight Pleasures) – Sherrilyn Kenyon – Best Novella

Night Embrace – Sherrilyn Kenyon- Honorable Mention Best Shapeshifter Romance

2003 RBL Hughie Awards:

Best Scottish Historical Romance – Born In Sin by Kinley MacGregor

Best Paranormal Romance (time travel, futuristic, fantasy, etc.) Dance With The Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Anthology – Midnight Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley, Maggie Shayne, and Rhonda Thompson and Where’s My Hero? by Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, and Kinley MacGregor

Best Cover – Dance With The Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Author – Sherrilyn Kenyon (Kinley MacGregor)

Favorite Secondary Character (Male) – Acheron (Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Favorite Secondary Character (Female) – Simi, the Charonte Demon (Dance With The Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Funniest Scene – Sin meeting the MacAllister brothers after he marries Callie (Born In Sin by Kinley MacGregor)

Best Line or Quote – “You know, Sunshine, you need to find a man like that to marry. Someone so well-hung that even after three or four kids, he still be wall to wall.” (Night Embrace by Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Night Pleasures won the Laurel Wreath Award with Fantasy Lover coming in a close second

PEARL (Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature) (2003)

Best Shape-Shifter, Honorable Mention – Dance With The Devil

Best Novella or Short Story, Honorable Mention – “Phantom Lover”

Best Anthology, Honorable Mention – Midnight Pleasures, with Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley, Maggie Shayne, and Rhonda Thompson

Favorite Overall Paranormal, Honorable Mention – Dance With the Devil

2005-2006

Darrell Awards (2006)

Best Novel – Sins of the Night

RIO (Reviewers International Organization) (2005)

Favorite Paranormal – Seize the Night

PEARL (Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature) (2005)

Best Paranormal Over All – Sins of the Night

Best Paranormal Over All, Honorable Mention – Unleash the Night

Best Anthology – What Dreams May Come

Best Erotic – Unleash the Night

Best Shapeshifter – Sins of the Night

Sins of the Night was #5 on Amazon.com’s bestselling books of 2005. Fantasy Lover and Night Pleasures are #6 and #7 respectively for the best of the decade so far.

Love Romances 2005 Golden Rose Reader Choice Awards Winner:

Best Historical – A Dark Champion – Kinley MacGregor

Best Novella – “Winter Born” – Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Vampire – Seize the Night – Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Shapeshifter – Night Play – Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Couple – Vane & Bride in Night Play – Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Cover – Kiss of the Night – Sherrilyn Kenyon

2007

Devil May Cry was #2 on New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover Fiction List (week ended August 11, 2007)

References

^ a b “Sherrilyn’s Cyberhome”. Sherrilyn Kenyon Official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com/sherrilyn/intro.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Kenyon, Sherrilyn. “About Me”. Sherrilyn Kenyon Official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com//sherrilyn/aboutme.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ Kenyon, Sherrilyn. “In Memoriam”. Sherrilyn Kenyon Official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com/sherrilyn/mom.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b Smith, Lodeen. “An Interview with Sherrilyn”. Sherrilynn Kenyon official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com//sherrilyn/interview.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ “Promo Items”. Sherrilyn Kenyon Official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com//sherrilyn/daylife.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b c d e f g h “Interview with our Author of the Month Sherrilyn Kenyon a.k.a. Kinley MacGregor”. A Romance Review. 2002. http://www.aromancereview.com/interviews/sherrilynkenyon.phtml. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b Ward, Jean Marie (1998). “Sherrilyn Kenyon: Coloring Outside Traditional Romance Lines”. Crescent Blues. http://www.crescentblues.com/6_8issue/int_kenyon.shtml. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ “DBPRO to Adapt Kinley MacGregor’s Lords of Avalon”. Dabel Brothers Production. May 7, 2006. http://www.sfwa.org/pressbook/06/0508a-Macgregor-Avalon.html. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b Anderson, Marcia (September 29, 2005). “Dark-Hunter series author keynotes COFW conference”. ThisWeek Newspapers. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com//sherrilyn/092905-News-17825.html. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ “RBL Presents! Sherrilyn Kenyon”. 2002. RBL Romantics. 2002. http://www.geocities.com/rblinterviews2/kenyoninterview.html. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ “Sherrilyn Kenyon”. Fantastic Fiction. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/sherrilyn-kenyon/. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ “The Beginning”

^ “A Dark-Hunter Christmas”

^ a b c d “Writing Awards”. Sherrilyn Kenyon Official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com//hunter/writingawards.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

External links

Sherrilyn Kenyon Book Reviews

Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Official Site

Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Podcast

Bibliography at SciFan

Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Official myspace

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NAME

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

Kenyon, Sherrilyn

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Novelist

DATE OF BIRTH

1965

PLACE OF BIRTH

Columbus, Georgia

DATE OF DEATH

PLACE OF DEATH

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