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Benefits of Facebook Developed Hiphop to PHP Development in India

PHP is very simple to learn, write, read and debug. With different types of tools being introduced to the PHP world it has become a rapidly changing computer language. The recent addition to the niche is HipHop introduced by Facebook. HipHop was developed to make PHP applications faster and hence would be of immense help to PHP development in India.

HipHop for PHP development in India reduces usage of CPU on servers by at least 50% varying on the bases of the number of web pages. This would eventually help reduce overhead as less CPU would mean fewer servers. HipHop is developed by Facebook and was tried for the first time on their site where it was found that HipHop was helpful to reduce overhead and would be soon released as a free PHP framework.  

Currently PHP development in India, companies will be able to use only the beta version as the development of Hiphop is still not complete. The company defines it as a code transformer which would efficiently transform PHP code to C++ and then use g++ to complete the transformation. To ensure improved performance for source code transformation HipHop sacrifices few rarely seen features.

To answer what makes HipHop so important for PHP development in India it can be said that its features give it an edge over others. It has reapplication of PHP’s runtime system, code transformer and many rewritten extensions which are common on PHP.  Now you might be thinking why we need something like HipHop. Here is a long explanation to a small query.

PHP has its origin in programming languages like ruby, Python and Pearl. All these languages are very simple for the programmers to code and are able to repeat on the PHP applications. But it is also known that programming languages are poor at CPU and memory. Hence it becomes very difficult to develop big PHP applications using PHP.

An easy way to transform this limitation of PHP development in India to the other side of the coin is to transform the complex coding of PHP into simple C++ coding. This technique will make PHP interpreter between HTML and C++.  Hence HipHop has been developed to have the ability to transfer complex PHP code to simple C++ codes.

How will PHP development in India benefited by HipHop is another question we need to answer. India, though a growing economy is considered an IT outsourcing giant. Most of the economic development in India can be attributed to the flourishing IT industries which bring in more investment each year and more employment opportunities.

Until now most of the PHP development companies in India offered PHP applications development service using different languages. HipHop will help web development companies in India especially PHP development in India companies reduce overhead expenses. This would directly mean that the company offering PHP development services in India will be spending comparatively less money and so will make better gains. Better gains would ultimately result in the growth of these companies.

About the Author

eTatvasoft has been effective in taking PHP development in India to new levels and hopes it would be able to do so even better with the introduction of HipHop.

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Happy and Saddam

Happy and Saddam

 

 `Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness` is enshrined in the USA`s Declaration of Independance, July 4, 1776. The opposite of happy is sad, and the USA was saddened, or `Saddamed` on 9/11. The terrorist attacks were performed by `Islamic martyrs` which, amongst terrorists, means kamikaze-like `suicide`; but the terrorist would like to be understood as sacrificing themselves on behalf of God, and this is anti-Islamic. In the New Testament, Jesus` Redemption is not the result of `self-sacrifice` but the rejection of sadism, that is, those who would `crucify`.

 

 Saddam is identifiable as the red dragon of Revelation, which waits to devour the child born to the woman `clothed with the sun and with the moon at her feet` at the birth of he `who shall rule the nations with an iron scepter` (Rev: 12.1-18). He is `God`s law`, which Jesus distills in the New Testament as `God is love` (Matt: 22.39), and that`s `happiness` in terms of the American Dream. Saddam is he who, as the devourer of life, sought sadism and damnation for Iraq – the sad `damned` nation, as it were – and for the USA by encouraging it to become embroiled in sadism, which is what happened at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.1

 

 Britney Spears (1982-) in Oops I Did It Again (2000) is prescient in her portrayal of a red suited dragon of Revelation that represents the myth of the Ourobouros serpent, which is that of self-begetting, self-devouring, regeneration and rebirth. The devouring aspect is the red dragon of Revelation, which is waiting to attack the USA on 9/11 2001. But Britney Spears represents the saving, that is, Redemption, of the Creator`s Producer (Woman) and Product – Civilization – which is why she is wrong, `red dressed`. After the Gulf War of 1990-1, and the `redressing of wrongs`, that is, reparations from the Iraqi government after Saddam`s removal from Kuwait, the United States had the Sword of Jesus, which means they refused to allow Kuwait to be a `sacrificial lamb` and had taken up the sword against the sadist who`d used poison gas against his own people in Kurdistan2 before raping and murdering in Kuwait.

 

 The crucifixion scene suggests Jesus is a `sacrificial lamb` but his crucifiers are sadists, so the Redemption is his and not theirs. After Jesus` Ascension (1 John: 2.1), the Paraclete is given by God to teach upon the Earth as the Holy Spirit in order to preach Redemption to later generations. What is taught is action against sadism, which is how Saddam is recognizable as the dragon of Revelation. Jesus is described as the `lamb of God` (Rev: 5.13), not because he is a `sacrificial lamb`, although he is crucified in a Pagan style, but because he was murdered by sadists – and triumphed over them. Being `washed in the blood of the lamb` (Rev: 12.11) is Redemption from acceptance of the teachings of Jesus through the tutelary spirit that is the Paraclete.

 

 Redemption cannot be obtained through war, but the USA`s taking up of the sword to defend Kuwait (1990-1) is Jesus` position. The Spear of Longinus cuts open the side of Jesus (Matt: 27.54) upon the cross and the Paraclete or Holy Spirit is, metaphorically, born; because Jesus is the Second Adam and Eve (Gen: 2.9) was taken from his side. Jesus` position is, therefore, that of defending the Woman, which is the USA`s unconscious role in the Gulf War (2001-3). Jesus has a crown of thorns at his crucifixion, and the legend is that the Robin3 pierces itself in endeavouring to remove the largest and sharpest from Jesus` head. It is a symbol of the defender.

 

 Britney Spears in Oops I Did It Again is Kuwait`s `red dressed` wrongs and she`s the Robin `red breast` of Christian tradition, that is, the USA has defended Jesus, and she`s `Miss American Dream` but not ` innocent`, which is what the Dream and Manifest Destiny is: innocent progress and development without threat. After Kuwait, she has dealt with the threat but is not innocent. Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) was the largest thorn in the crown of Jesus, and she`ll remove it. 9/11 came later, and terrorists are lesser thorns, so the USA shall continue to have Redemption and use the sword of Jesus to defend the `meek that shall inherit the Earth`, that is, those who have accepted God`s law, God`s love and Woman – perdition else.

 

 The difficulty woman has is believing in a God that seeks to devour her, which is what the red dragon of Revelation represents. She is the Creator`s Producer and Product – Civilization – and God is the Father to men who devour it and her. The child born to the `woman clothed with the sun and with the moon at her feet` who `rules the nations with an iron scepter` suggest someone whose head isn`t turned by wealth and is strong in God`s law. The dragon waiting to devour him at his birth is male, and therefore capable of fathering; but he isn`t God. The imagery is the eternal dilemma faced by woman; if she produces a male child it will devour her unless she can prevent it from becoming a dragon.

 

 The child is the Creator`s Producer`s Product that represents Redemption and the Woman`s ability to defend Civilization because she inculcates the right values in her son. He is the New Redeemer in some interpretations but is more understandable as the New Redemption. Woman`s problem is, if God`s male, he wants to eat her. Jesus therefore engineers the Redemption by means of his strategy as a teacher who has accepted his role as the Second Adam who had Eve tempted from his side by the Evil One. As the Second Adam, he has Eve by his side as the Spirit of God, symbolized by the Paraclete`s emergence after his crucifixion and Ascension.

 

 Effectively, she emerges as God`s Spirit from Longinus` cutting open of Christ`s side with his spear – as Eve first emerged from the side of Adam – and is the engineer of the Second Redemption as the Woman of Revelation. If God is love and God`s Spirit is female, then God should be Woman, and the missing component is the penis. In order to be God, she`d have to be a fatherer, that is, the Woman of Revelation is futanar and has Woman as her father. The New Redemption is a species` development. Woman as futanar has a penis, and she doesn`t need men who won`t accept God`s love, that is, Woman and Redemption through her Holy Spirit. If men don`t want her, they don`t want God, and they`ll have perdition, which is eternal unendurable pain.

 

 Woman`s difficulty is defence, because she is trained to be the `teacher, guide, comforter and helpmeet` of man, which is the description of the Paraclete in the Bible. She emerges from Christ`s crucifixion, that is, for Woman acceptance of Jesus is acceptance of helplessness and self-sacrifice. In other words, she is trained to be a masochist that, empowered, will be a sadist. In Enough (2002), Jennifer Lopez (1969-), over two hours, trains to kill her husband, who is a sadist. She feels empowered because she accepts the framework. World heavyweight boxing champions do the same. If Jennifer killed her husband before the movie, there`d be no action. Without Saddam Hussein there`d have been no Gulf War and the Americans gave him the world`s third largest army to play with. Colin Powell (1937-) had to accept `rules of engagement`, which handicaps God who wants evil exterminated, not courted.

 

 

 

 Revelation is Jesus` `rules of engagement` and, in his Second Coming with the Sword he exterminates the evil – without handicap – and there is the `marriage of the lamb`, which is his `bride`. In other words, men`s `rules of engagement` are constructs designed to further sadistic ploys. Whether in marital terms, in which Woman`s penis isn`t admitted in order that she be handicapped – or militarily, so that the World heavyweight champions can slug it out until one of them wins; so causing the deaths of thousands whereas a `sucker punch` to KO Saddam wouldn`t be perceived as `playing the game`: although it would effectively terminate hostilities before they began. The `rules of engagement` are handicappings to ensure an even contest rather than the extermination of evil.

 

 Wars aren`t sports, and they aren`t `marriages`; but we use the terms `rules of engagement` as if it`s a military campaign. The second Gulf War should actually have been a divorcing of evil. Jesus, who comes with the Sword to exterminate the evil in Revelation, divorces it and his `marriage` with the `bride` in the consummation of human history. He is only bound by God`s law, which is God`s love and Redemption. The Sword is the instrument of predestined division of the good from the evil. God`s law, God`s love and Redemption are Jesus` `rules of engagement` before he marries. Men deliberately handicap God with their `rules of engagement`, maritally and militarily. They deny that Woman has a penis, it`s usage, and it`s potential as an excluder of men from Woman. If she has a penis, she doesn`t need men and, because she`s God`s love, she`s closer to God and what God means by mankind`s Redemption. Closer than men who have sought to exclude her from herself as the Creator`s Producer of a new heaven and Earth, which is God`s Promise fulfilled in Revelation.

 

 Military campaigns are similarly exclusive; they aren`t concerned with the defense of the Creator`s Producer and Product – Woman – but the perpetuation of war games – as gladiators in the Roman `circus` or boxers in the ring. The `circus` is the name given to intelligence gathering, so there`s an analogy between gladiators, boxers, and the `circus ring`, which is that intelligence isn`t sufficient because it`s handicapped for the same reason as horses in horse racing; to even the contest. Sadists want to perpetuate violence as a game and intelligence as a `circus ring` in which men are trained to perform as `beasts`, which is what Revelation warns of. The Romans watched sadistically as gladiators died. Boxing is a smiliar construct, and war is another. Jesus has Redemption, then, not because he`s tortured by the Romans in one of their sadistic `games`, but because he is a teacher who accepts God`s love` and, prepared, comes in Revelation with the Sword, to exterminate the sadists.

 

 Humans are fooled by sadistic constructs. Only God`s law is important, which is God`s love or the Sword of extinction for the evil. The constructs are irrelevant. Boxing is a sport, movies are art, war is not. The paradigm does not fit, and the paradigm is sado-masochism. Woman`s paradigm is similarly false. They`re trained to be dominated, whereas they`re the dominant species as the Producer and Product. What Woman has to learn is self-defence, which is easier if she knows that she can father with her own penis, because Woman nurtures and so Civilization`s product is valued by her – and men`s conditioning of her can be broken.

 

 9/11 represents 20th Century system`s conditioning in which `protocols` are more important than intelligence. This is the handicap. Essentially, America`s system was hacked and the civilian aircraft that were crashed into the Twin Towers by terrorists in 2001 were a virus. It is common for hackers to be invited by those they hack into to improve their defenses. But the paradigm is sodomy and the AIDS virus. The USA`s protocols were ineffective because they were inviting Saddamy. That was the 20th century paradigm: hack into the superpower`s defence system and be employed by it. But you can`t improve an immune system by giving it AIDS and 20th century computer systems` improvers were persuaded that you could build `hacker invite programmes` into their systems to catch and employ virus-developers. But it`s a sado-masochistic perspective promulgated by sadists who want to inflict irreparable damage and torment rather than work themselves a job opportunity.

 

 9/11 wasn`t exactly Sodom and Gomorrah but Saddam and Camera – a hit on the Twin Towers – by hacker invite – the late 20th Century paradigm: a gay BDSM film. It`s Saddam or it`s Adam – Adam eyes or Saddam eyes. Sadder My`s is `my eyes are sadder than your eyes`, which means that Saddam (analogous, spiritually, to the city of Sodom) represents an invitation to the USA to engage in sado-masochistic Saddamy, and the hypothetical statement `I be Saddam` may be interpreted as `I beast am`, that is, I am the beast of Revelation. God destroys Sodom (Gen: 18,19) and Saddam is it`s continuing spirit, as it were. As Saddam, he is the false Adam; the False Prophet of Revelation who wants to lead an Islamic Jihad against the USA. The True Prophet is Jesus, the Second Adam whose city isn`t that of Saddam but Adam`s city, the city of New York; the `Big Apple`.

 

 Jesus has Adam`s eyes, that is, his eyes are on God – and Woman. Jesus` eyes upon Earth are the eyes of Eve; effectively resurgent from his side as the Paraclete when the spear of Longinus cuts him open – as if by Caesarean section. Jesus` eyes are upon Woman, and he offers mankind Redemption through her physical and spiritual love, but she is his `bride` and Revelation celebrates his marriage after he exterminates the evil with his Sword and gives them perdition. The dragon is eyeing the child, preparing to devour it, that is, Saddam eyes: he eyes as the False Prophet. He is the beast, the red dragon of Revelation eyeing the Woman `clothed with the sun and with the moon at her feet`. The child is the enforcer of God`s love; he `who rules the nations with an iron scepter` on behalf of Woman.

 

 In the Old Testament, the Spirit of God dwells in the place where the Commandments are kept in the Ark of the Covenant, and she is the Shekinah (Ex: 40.35), so the child of the Woman with the `iron scepter` is protecting her. According to Jesus, in the New Testament, God`s law is God`s love, so the child that protects the Shekinah is God`s law and she is God`s love, which is what the Paraclete teaches – Redemption through God`s love. The Paraclete is the Shekinah of the Old Testament and the Holy Spirit in the New Testament, and Jesus` eyes are hers and for hers, which is why he has `Adam eyes` and not `Saddam eyes`, that is, he isn`t sadism and sodomy, which are `beasts`, the False Prophet, and the red dragon of Revelation as the would-be devourer of Woman`s next Product; the new heaven and new Earth.

 

 Trained by men, Woman would expect God to be her father, but as a Woman with a penis she can father, so God is a Mother. Woman does not need men, and that is what Jesus` training is for. She has to defend her own paradigm, which is that she has attempted Redemption for man; but she doesn`t have to continue with this paradigm after Jesus` Second Coming with the Sword to free her after her child of Revelation has protected her. She has her own reproductive equipment and can be the Creator`s Producer and Product in the new heaven and Earth, without men who have tortured her species, kept her prisoner, filled her with lies, and told her she was impotent.

 

 Men invented sodomy, because they don`t have Woman`s equipment. Woman with a penis would be more likely to take care of her equipment, so 9/11 wouldn`t have happened if men had taken more care of her. `America the Beautiful` is the analagous paradigm because what is beautiful is good. New York is the `Big Apple` and the apple is good, so why wouldn`t I want it? Adam and Eve, in Eden, eat the apple from the `tree of the knowledge of good and evil` (Gen: 2.9), and the snake is the symbolic penis that tempts them to evil, but it isn`t Eve`s or Adam`s. It`s Saddam`s, and the beasts of Revelation, sadism and sodomy, that is, Saddamy.

 

 9/11`s hijacked civilian aircraft were the hacker`s virus as AIDS` paradigm. Saddam was descried as the Antichrist, and that`s correct because he`s anti-sex and, insofar as God is Woman`s love, Christianity is sex. As Saddam, he isn`t Adam, but an old place made new: Sodom and sadism – sterility. Sex is the `Big Apple` of New York – `Adam`s apple` – an idiom used to denote the epiglottis; a part of swallowing (pharynx) and speaking (larynx). On 9/11 the `talking was over`, according to the devourer waiting to devour the child of the `woman clothed with the sun and with the moon at her feet`, who is Eve, and her child who`s to `rule the nations with an iron scepter`.

 

 It`s a metaphor; boys don`t become men: they are devourers, and he with the `scepter` is adhering to the enforcing of God`s law, which is God`s love, and Redemption in accordance with Jesus` `rules of engagement`. He accepts Jesus` teachings and defends the Creator`s Producer and Product – Woman and Civilization – against illiteracy, which is hating rather than loving, or devourment rather than kissing, reading or speaking. Saddam didn`t break the `rules of engagement`; the invasion of Kuwait and 9/11 were `sneak attacks` similar to the Japanese attack on the US Sixth Fleet at Hawaii`s Pearl Harbour in 1941. The USA had given him Earth`s 3rd largest army as a `wooing`, but he betrayed their Faith.

 

 In Christian terms, he was the `lamb that spake like a dragon`, which is the second beast of Revelation (Rev: 13.11-12), the False Prophet of Islamic Jihad against the USA, and indicates Saddam`s, that is, sadism and sodomy`s (a stab in the back is, effectively, `higher` anal penetration – 9/11`s civil aircraft were lying about their `orientation`) exclusion from the `marriage of the lamb`: the new heaven and Earth of Revelation created by God for Jesus` Woman. If men do not want Woman, or her product – Civilization – then it is as her tormentors that they seek to continue. If Woman wants to live, she should acknowledge that men want her to die.

 

 In Revelation, Jesus comes with the Sword of God, her Sword, to save her, from men. She is Woman, and she accepts him because she can believe in him. In effect, he is her as the sacrificed – and the rescuer. Jesus is God`s Woman with a Sword in her hand and God, thereafter, creates a new heaven, and Earth from which men will be excluded if they don`t accept that God is Woman`s love – and she is the Father because she has her own penis too. However, if she continues to perceive her role – and Jesus` – as self-sacrifice, she`ll accept her training from men, turn upon her sisters with them, and won`t escape from them but shall experience perdition. This is the danger that acceptance of sado-masochistic paradigms represent, that is, dominance means subjugation and the rejection of development, whereas God`s law is love and God is omnipotent.

 

1 http://jasonjeffrey.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/obama-creates-indefinite-detention-system-for-prisoners-at-guantanamo-bay/

 

2 Cole, Juan `Did Saddam Gas The Kurds?` 2-04-03 http://hnn.us/articles/1242.html

 

3 http://www.mamarocks.com/first_robin.htm

 

 4 Bates, Katherine Lee, Ward, Samuel A. The Congregationalist, July 4, 1895.

About the Author

Received a Ph.D in English in 1993 from the University of Kingston-Upon-Hull, England, for research thesis titled ‘Jungian Archetypes in the work of [science fiction writer] Robert A. Heinlein’. Most recently published non-fiction in June 2008′s Humanizing Language Teaching online journal with an article based on English language teaching experiences in Khartoum, Sudan, West Africa, titled ‘Bitchin’ English’, in December 2009`s HLT with `Our Old Man In Oman`, April 2010`s `The Further Adventures of Dr Usher`, and June`s `Putting One`s Feet Up Without Permission`. First published article ‘Robert A. Heinlein: Theologist?’ in the British journal of science fiction Foundation (54). Pedagogic article ‘Learning to Study’ in the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research’s journal Educatio (3) in 1995. Also a writer of science fiction; stories published include: ‘Out of this World’ (1994) and ‘Ride!’ she said’ (1997) for the UK’s Desire magazine. Stories published in Hungary; ‘Sas’ in Oszirisz Országa [‘Special Angel Service' in Land of Osiris]. Cherubion Press, Debrecen, Hungary, 1996, pp.184-91, `Bevezetés a Valhallába’ in Universzum Örokösei [‘Valhalla for Starters' in Inheritors of the Universe], Cherubion Press, 1996, pp. 143-7, ‘Fegyverforgatás Mestere’ in Galaxisz A Gászara [`Master Arms Practitioner' in Emperor of the Galaxy], Cherubion Press, 1997, pp.281-6. Most recently; ‘Well, it was like this doc…’ at Ruthie’s Club < http://www.ruthiesclub.com > March 2009, and ‘All For Naught Orphan Ufonaut’ in Shelter of Daylight, Sam’s Dot Publishing, October 2010. Taught English language and literature in Hungary, Poland, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Oman.

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Magic the Gathering: Card values?

About a year ago I bought a lot of Magic cards for $20 at a garage sale, I think I got a good deal because the woman that sold them didn’t seem to know much about them.However, I find the game boring and I want to sell them. They were sorted by rarity, but I think I might have mixed them up. How do I tell the difference between the rarities?

I have 457 commons, what are they worth? (Does it depend on the card?)
I have 198 uncommons, what are they worth? (Does it depend on the card?)
I have 92 rares, what are they worth? (Does it depend on the card?)

At the bottom of the bin was 4 cards that where screwed in between 2 pieces of plastic, they were all in baggies. I think they where graded for quality or something. They are Mox Pearl (8), Black Lotus (9), Timetwister (9), Library of Alexandria (9.5)

Are they worth more? Are the grades good?

Buy an issue of Scrye Magazine or check e-bay for an idea of what the cards are worth. The 4 cards you mentioned should be worth some good cash.

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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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