Carolyn Crane#Bibliography

Crane grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and Milwaukee, attending Arrowhead High School in Wisconsin.[http://www.sffworld.com/interview/302p0.html Interview with Carolyn Crane] SFF World She studied English literature and earned her BA from the University of Minnesota in 1991{{cite web|url=http://english.umn.edu/engagement/newsletter2010.php?entry=263377|title=Winter 2010 Newsletter|publisher= University of Minnesota|access-date=2015-05-24}} and currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two cats.

Crane cites reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, and Kelley Armstrong's Bitten in reinspiring her to write after getting her degree.

Crane wrote two unpublished novels before she was picked up by agent Cameron McClure of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. In 2008, McClure sold the first two books of her new urban fantasy trilogy, The Disillusionists, to Bantam/Spectra, a division of Random House. Her debut novel, Mind Games, was released March 23, 2010. Due to low sales, Spectra announced that summer that it would not opt for the third book in the series. The third was sold to Samhain Publishing, Audible.com released all three titles on October 25, 2011, and the series was optioned for TV.

Her first foray into self-publishing was collaborating with Meljean Brook and Jill Myles in the anthology Wild and Steamy, in which Crane had a novella "Kitten-tiger & the Monk" that was a part of the Disilluionists world.

She indicated in an interview with SFF World that she has two new series in development.

:1. {{cite book | title = Mind Games | orig-year = 2010 | date = March 2010 | isbn = 9780553592610 | publisher = Spectra | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/mindgames00caro }}

:2. {{cite book | title =Double Cross | url =https://archive.org/details/doublecross0000cran | url-access =registration | orig-year = 2010 |date=September 2010 | isbn = 9780553592627 | publisher = Spectra }}

:2.5 {{cite book | title =Kitten-tiger & the Monk | orig-year = 2011 |date= August 2011 }} in the anthology Wild & Steamy and Novellas & Stories{{Cite book|title=Novellas & Stories|last=Brook|first=Meljean|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing|year=2013|isbn=978-1484828137|location=Ottawa Public Library|pages=Table of Contents}}

:3. {{cite book | title =Head Rush | orig-year = 2011 |date=December 2011 | isbn = 9781609286255 | publisher = Samhain }}

:3.5 {{cite book | title =Devil's Luck | orig-year = 2012 |date=February 2012 }}

:0.5. {{cite book | title =Conjuring Max | orig-year = 2013 |date=March 2013 | isbn = 9780989461108}} in the anthology Fire & Frost and Novellas & Stories

:1. {{cite book | title =Mr. Real | orig-year = 2012 |date=October 2012 | isbn = 9780988313101}}

1. {{cite book | title =Against the Dark | orig-year = 2013 |date=April 2013 | isbn= 9780988313118| last1 = Crane | first1 = Carolyn | last2 = Martin | first2 = Annika }}
2. {{cite book | title =Off the Edge | orig-year = 2013 |date=December 2013 | isbn = 9780988313125| last1 = Crane | first1 = Carolyn | last2 = Martin | first2 = Annika }}
3. {{cite book | title =Into the Shadows | orig-year = 2014 |date=July 2014 | isbn=9780988313132| last1 = Crane | first1 = Carolyn }}
4. {{cite book | title =Behind the Mask | orig-year = 2015 |date=May 2015 | isbn = 9780988313163| last1 = Crane | first1 = Carolyn }}

• {{cite book | title =Old Salt | orig-year = 2013 |date=September 2012 | isbn= 9780762442690}} in the Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance

1. {{cite AV media | title =Against the Dark | origyear = 2014 |date=October 2014 | isbn = 9781494505622 | publisher = Tantor }}
2. {{cite AV media | title =Off the Edge | origyear = 2014 |date=November 2014 | isbn = 9781494555634 | publisher = Tantor }}
3. {{cite AV media | title =Into the Shadows | origyear = 2014 |date=December 2014 | isbn = 9781494505646 | publisher = Tantor }}

Critical reception to Crane's work has been positive, with Romantic Times giving the first two books in the Disillusionist Trilogy four and a half stars.[http://www.rtbookreviews.com/book-review/mind-games-2 Review: Mind Games] Romantic Times[http://www.rtbookreviews.com/book-review/double-cross-2 Review: Double Cross] Romantic Times

• 2014 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense, Off the Edge

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• [http://thethrillionthpage.blogspot.com/ Author's Blog]
• [http://authorcarolyncrane.com/ Author's Website]
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