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Kalayna Price

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| name = Kalayna Price

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| occupation = Novelist

| education = University of South Carolina (BFA){{cite web|url=http://www.facebook.com/kalayna?sk=info |title=Facebook Profile |publisher=Facebook |year=2005 |accessdate=January 28, 2012}}

| period = 2009 to present

| genre = Urban Fantasy, dark fantasy, fantasy

| awards = USA Today Bestseller,{{cite web |url=http://books.usatoday.com/list/search-results?t=author&k=kalayna+price |title=USA Today Best-Selling Book List |date=July 14, 2011 |accessdate=January 28, 2012 |archive-date=July 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707143654/http://books.usatoday.com/list/search-results?t=author&k=kalayna+price |url-status=live }} Maggie Award of Excellence in Paranormal Fiction{{cite web |url=http://www.georgiaromancewriters.org/the-maggies/2011-maggie-winners/ |title=2011 Maggie Award Winners |year=2011 |accessdate=January 28, 2012 |archive-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118153444/http://www.georgiaromancewriters.org/the-maggies/2011-maggie-winners/ |url-status=live }}

| website = {{URL|www.kalayna.com}}

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Kalayna Price is an{{cite web |url=http://books.usatoday.com/list/search-results?t=author&k=kalayna+price |title=USA Today Best-Selling Book List |date=July 14, 2011 |accessdate=January 28, 2012 |archive-date=July 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707143654/http://books.usatoday.com/list/search-results?t=author&k=kalayna+price |url-status=live }} American author best known for her Alex Craft novels, an urban fantasy series about a witch who solves crimes by speaking to the dead. She is represented by Lucienne Diver of the Knight Agency.{{cite web |url=http://knightagency.net/our-clients/ |title=Knight Agency Client list |date= |accessdate=January 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208230027/http://knightagency.net/our-clients/ |archive-date=February 8, 2012 |url-status=dead }}

Biography

Price has a BFA in studio art from the University of South Carolina.{{cite web|url=http://www.facebook.com/kalayna?sk=info |title=Facebook Profile |publisher=Facebook |year=2005 |accessdate=January 28, 2012}} She is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America{{cite web |url=http://www.sfwa.org/member-links/member-list/ |title=SFWA Member List |date= |accessdate=February 28, 2012 |archive-date=April 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429065016/http://www.sfwa.org/member-links/member-list/ |url-status=dead }} and is a regular contributor to Magical Words, an educational blog for writers written by writers, agents, and editors.{{cite web |url=http://www.magicalwords.net/ |title=Magical Words |accessdate=January 28, 2012 |archive-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725221423/http://www.magicalwords.net/ |url-status=live }}

In the US, Price is published by Roc (Penguin USA){{cite web|url=http://us.penguingroup.com|title= Penguin USA |accessdate=January 28, 2012}} and Bell Bridge Books.{{cite web|url=http://www.bellebooks.com/ |title=Bell Bridge Books |accessdate=January 28, 2012}} Her Alex Craft novels are also available through Penguin in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.{{cite web |url=http://www.penguin.co.uk/ |title=Penguin UK |accessdate=January 28, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215212904/http://www.penguin.co.uk/ |url-status=live }} German rights language for both series are held by Blanvalet,{{cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.de/Autor/Kalayna_Price/p423085.rhd |title=Blanvalet/Random House Germany |accessdate=January 28, 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and it has been announced that French, Romanian, and Polish language rights have been sold.{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/debbsmith/ |title=Publishers MarketPlace |date=November 26, 2011 |accessdate=January 28, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114044639/http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/debbsmith/ |archivedate=January 14, 2012 }}{{cite web|url=http://knightagency.net/foreign-rights/ |title= Knight Agency Foreign Rights Recent sales |accessdate=January 28, 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.kalayna.com/ |title=Author Website:News |accessdate=January 28, 2012 |archive-date=February 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208054300/http://www.kalayna.com/ |url-status=dead }}

Bibliography

=Alex Craft novels=

  1. Grave Witch (October 2010 {{ISBN|978-0-451-46380-7}} )
  2. Grave Dance (July 2011 {{ISBN|978-0-451-46409-5}} )
  3. Grave Memory (July 2012 {{ISBN|978-0-451-46459-0}} )
  4. Grave Visions(February 2016 {{ISBN|978-140591168-9}} )
  5. Grave Ransom (July 2017 {{ISBN|9781452690933}} )
  6. Grave Destiny (April 2019 {{ISBN|978-0451416599}} )
  7. Grave War (November 2020 {{ISBN|978-1984805959}} )

=Novels of Haven=

  1. Once Bitten (January 2009 {{ISBN|978-0-9802453-9-4}} )
  2. Twice Dead (February 2010 {{ISBN|978-0-9843256-7-2}} )
  3. Third Blood (cancelled)

= Anthologies =

  • Ruby Red in Kicking It (2013 {{ISBN|978-0-4514190-0-2}})

=Audio editions=

  • Grave Witch (April 2011 {{ISBN|978-1-4526-5184-2}} ) -Tantor Media, read by Emily Durante
  • Grave Dance (July 2011 {{ISBN|978-1-4526-5185-9}} ) -Tantor Media, read by Emily Durante
  • Grave Memory (July 2012 {{ISBN|978-1-4526-2186-9}} ) -Tantor Media, read by Emily Durante
  • Grave Visions (February 2016 {{ISBN|978-1-4526-9092-6}} ) -Tantor Media, read by Emily Durante
  • Grave Ransom (October 2017 {{ISBN|978-1-4526-9093-3}} ) -Tantor Media, read by Emily Durante
  • Grave Destiny (April 2019 {{ISBN|978-1-4526-9094-0}} ) -Tantor Media, read by Emily Durante
  • Grave War (November 2020 {{ISBN|978-1-4945-3122-5}} ) -Tantor Media, read by Emily Durante
  • Once Bitten (August 2011 ASIN B005G0UZN6 ) – Audible Frontiers, read by Piper Goodeve
  • Twice Dead (September 2011 ASIN B005G0V60W ) – Audible Frontiers, read by Piper Goodeve

=Foreign editions=

  • Der Kuss der Ewigkeit -German edition of Once Bitten (December 2011 {{ISBN|978-3-442-37854-8}} )-Blanvalet, Translated by Anita Nirschl
  • Vom Tod verführt – German edition of Grave Witch (July 2012 {{ISBN|978-3-442-37860-9}}) -Blanvalet, Translated by Lothar Woicke

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.kalayna.com}}
  • [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2803627.Kalayna_Price GoodReads]

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Category:Living people

Category:21st-century American novelists

Category:American fantasy writers

Category:American horror writers

Category:American women novelists

Category:Urban fantasy writers

Category:American women science fiction and fantasy writers

Category:American women horror writers

Category:21st-century American women writers

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