Ep 01: Killing Vampires and The Beast Within: Author Faith Hunter (Jane Yellowrock)

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Written By Chris Well
Photo by Kim Hunter Feisley at http://www.kimhunterstudio.com/

Photo by Kim Hunter Feisley at KimHunterStudio.com

New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter has written more than 40 books in a variety of genres, including urban fantasy, thrillers and mysteries. Her Jane Yellowrock novels are part of a dark urban fantasy series starring a Cherokee who is a shape-shifter and vampire hunter for hire. In this interview, Faith shares how Jane Yellowrock has grown as a character over the past dozen-plus books, explains why she doesn’t write sex scenes, and reveals how she’ll know when it’s time to end the series.

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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