P. N. Elrod

P. N. "Pat" Elrod
Born	Patricia Nead Elrod
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	United States
Genres	fantasy, horror, mystery
Subjects	vampires
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Patricia N. Elrod is an American novelist specializing in urban fantasy. She's written in the mystery, romance, paranormal, and historical genres with at least one foray into comedic fantasy. Elrod is also an editor, having worked on several collections for Ace Science Fiction, DAW, Benbella Books, and St. Martin's Griffin. She self-published a signed, limited edition novel under her own imprint, Vampwriter Books.

In 2010, she was nominated for the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award in Urban Fantasy.^[1] In 2011, she was presented with the RT Book Reviews Pioneer Achievement Award in Vampire Fiction.^[1]

Overview

P. N. Elrod has written more than twenty novels, beginning with her Vampire Files urban fantasy series featuring hard-boiled PI Jack Fleming and also include his partner, Charles Escott, his girlfriend, Bobbi Smythe, and other recurring characters. The 12 books and counting are set in 1930s Chicago. Jack's first case was solving his own murder.^[2]

Next came the Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire series, set during the American Revolution. The series has been re-released by BenBella Books, with all new material added. The twist on these historicals is that Barrett and his family are on the side of the British throughout the revolution, offering a unique point of view of the times.

Another series co-authored with actor Nigel Bennett, who played the evil yet seductive LaCroix on the television show Forever Knight, is of a very different character, but still features a good guy vampire. The three book Lord Richard, Vampire series from Baen Books are set in a different universe than the Files & Barrett books, but this "James Bond with fangs" maintains Elrod's premise that there are different breeds of vampires co-existing out there.

Using this premise, she has linked her universe to that of Bram Stoker with her sequel to Dracula, Quincey Morris, Vampire. Quincey was killed at the end of Dracula, but is resurrected as a vampire himself, albeit a different breed than the infamous count. Lord Richard makes a brief cameo appearance in the story, and Morris' vampiric state is attributed to a previous blood-sharing with Nora Jones from Elrod's Jonathan Barrett series.

Also quite different, and qualifying as horror, are the Dungeons & Dragons-related books in the Ravenloft world featuring the dark and sinister vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich. These books, I, Strahd: Memoirs of a Vampire, and its sequel, I, Strahd: The War With Azalin, have garnered her critical acclaim from mainstream reviewers.

With The Adventures of Myhr she broke into the humorous fantasy genre. Myhr is half-man, half-cat and all adventure, magically jumping from world to world spreading the good news about pizza and Beatles karaoke. His partner is a cranky wizard fond of techno raves and obscene T-shirt art.

Elrod has authored around two dozen short stories in the fantasy, romance, science fiction, mystery, and horror genres, and edited several collections including Time of the Vampires, Dracula's London, and with Roxanne Conrad (aka Rachel Caine) Stepping Through the Stargate: The Science, Archaeology, and Military of Stargate SG-1 The latter is non-fiction and has contributions from world-famous scientists, doctors, the USAF military, FX wizards, and actors from the TV series.

In 2006, she edited an anthology of supernatural romance stories, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, which made the USA Today Bestseller list, and won the 2006 P.E.A.R.L. Awards for best anthology. She followed it with My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon released in January 2008 from St. Martin's Griffin.^[3] It made the New York Times Bestseller extended list^[4] and won honorable Mention in the 2007 Pearl Awards for best anthology.^[5]

The anthology, Strange Brew, from St. Martin's, also reached the New York Times extended bestseller list in July 2009.

Her collection Dark and Stormy Knights, also with St. Martin's, was released in July 2010.

Her next collection, Hex Symbols, sold to St. Martin's in 2010.

Also sold, a new steampunk series, On Her Majesty's Psychic Service, sold to Tor Books in 2010.

In April 2011, Elrod was presented with RT Book Review's Pioneers of Genre Fiction Award for "Forging the Way in Vampire Fiction Since 1990.">^[6]

Elrod continues to write and edit.

Bibliography

Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire

• Red Death (1993, ISBN 0441710948) (2004 rerelease ISBN 1932100199)
• Death and the Maiden (1994, ISBN 0441000711) (2004 rerelease ISBN 1932100202)
• Death Masque (1995, ISBN 0441001432) (2004 rerelease ISBN 1932100210)
• Dance of Death (1996, ISBN 0441003095) (2004 rerelease ISBN 1932100229)

Ravenloft

• I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire (1993, ISBN 1560766700)
• I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin (1998, ISBN 0786907541)

Vampire Files

• Bloodlist (1990, ISBN 0441067956)
• Lifeblood (1990, ISBN 0441847765)
• Bloodcircle (1990, ISBN 0441067174)
• Art in the Blood (1991, ISBN 0441859453)
• Fire in the Blood (1991, ISBN 0441859461)
• Blood on the Water (1992, ISBN 044185947X)
• Chill in the Blood (1998, ISBN 0441005012) (Winner of The Lord Ruthven Award, best novel 1999)
• Dark Sleep (1999, ISBN 0441005918)
• Lady Crymsyn (2000, ISBN 0441007244)
• Cold Streets (2003, ISBN 0441010091)
• Song in the Dark (2005, ISBN 0441013236)
• Dark Road Rising (2009, ISBN 044101755X)
• The Devil You Know (Signed, limited-edition novella, Vampwriter Books, April 2009)

Vampire Files collection

• Vampire Files, Books 1-3 (2003, ISBN 0739440616)
• Vampire Files, Books 4-6 (2006, ISBN 0739480790)
• Vampire Files, Books 7, 8 (2011)

Other novels

• Quincey Morris, Vampire (2001, ISBN 0671319884)
• The Adventures of Myhr (2003, ISBN 074343532X)

Co-writing with Nigel Bennett

• Keeper of the King (with Nigel Bennett) (1997, ISBN 0671877593)
• His Father's Son (with Nigel Bennett) (2001, ISBN 0671319817)
• Siege Perilous (with Nigel Bennett) (2004, ISBN 0743488547)

Editor/co-editor

• Time of the Vampires Short Story "The Witch's Mark" (with Martin H. Greenberg) (1996, ISBN 0886776937) (2004, ISBN 0743487338)
• Dracula in London Story: "Wolf and Hound" co-written with Nigel Bennett (2001, ISBN 0-441-00858-5)
• Stepping Through the Stargate "Villains I Love to Hate" (2004, ISBN 1-932100-32-6) (with Roxanne L. Conrad)
• My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (2006, ISBN 0-312-34360-4) Winner of the 2006 Pearl Award for best paranormal anthology.
• My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon (2008, ISBN 0-312-37504-2) Honorable Mention, 2007 Pearl Award, best paranormal anthology.
• Strange Brew (July 2009, ISBN 0312383363, ISBN 978-0312383367) Honorable Mention, 2009 Pearl Award, Best Anthology
• Dark and Stormy Knights (July 2010, ISBN 0312598343, ISBN 978-0312598341)
• Hex Symbols (sold to St. Martin's Griffin, 2010)
• The P.N. Elrod Lunch Time Reading Omnibus (June 2011, B0051PC6N8, Vampwriter Books)

Short Stories

• The Wind Breathes Cold, Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Ed. Steven H. Silver & Martin H. Greenberg. DAW 1992
• Caretaker Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Ed. Steven H. Silver & Martin H. Greenberg. DAW 1992
• You'll Catch Your Death, Vampire Detectives, DAW Ed. Martin H. Greenberg. Pub. 1995 (Vampire Files story)
• A Night at the (Horse) Opera, Celebrity Vampires, DAW Ed. Martin H. Greenberg 1995
• Fugitives Women at War, Ed Lois McMaster Bujold & Roland J. Green, Tor 1995
• The Quick Way Down, Mob Magic, Ed. Brian Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1998 (Vampire Files story)
• Myhr's Adventure in Hell, Assassin Fantastic, Ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Alexander Potter, DAW 2001
• Dog Spelled Backwards, Familiars, Ed. Denise Little, DAW 2002
• The Tea Room Beasts, Creature Fantastic, Ed. Denise Little, DAW 2002
• The Astral Outrage, Vengeance Fantastic, Ed. Denise Little, DAW 2002
• Bossman, Death by Horoscope, Ed. Anne Perry & John Helfers Carroll & Graf, 2002
• The Scottish Ploy, Murder Most Romantic, Ed Denise Little 2002
• Izzy's Shoe-In, White House Pet Detectives, Ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Cumberland House 2002
• The Breath of Bast, Kittens, Cats, and Crime, Ed. Ed Gorman, Five Star March 2003 (Vampire Files story - Escott)
• Silva's Dream Date, Sorcerer's Academy , Ed. Denise Little, DAW PB September 2003
• Slaughter, The Repentant, Ed. Brian M. Thomsen and Martin H. Greenberg PB October 2003 (Vampire Files story)
• Tarnished Linings, Magic Shops, Ed. Denise Little DAW PB February 2004
• Death in Dover, Death by Dickens anthology, Ed. Ann Perry. 2004
• King of Shreds and Patches, Rotten Relations, Ed. by Denise Little. PB OOP 2004
• Farscape Villains I've Known and Loved, Farscape Forever!: Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets 2005, BenBella Books
• The Name of the Game, All Hell Breaking Loose, DAW Books, 2005
• The Night Stalker, Essay for "Horror: Another 100 best Books" Ed. Kim Newman, Carroll & Graf, Sept, 2005
• The Why of the Matter, Kolchak, the Night Stalker Chronicles Moonstone Books, October 2005
• Power Hungry, The Kolchak Casebook Moonstone Books, January 2007
• Grave-robbed, Many Bloody Returns, Ace Science Fiction, 2007 (Vampire Files story)
• The Company You Keep, Vampires: Dracula and the Undead Legions, Moonstone 2009 (Vampire Files story - Kroun)
• Dark Lady, Dark and Stormy Knights, St. Martin's Griffin, 2010 (Vampire Files story)
• Vampires Prefer Blonds, Chicks Kick Ass, Tor, no release date yet (Vampire Files story - Bobbi Smythe)
• Beach Girl, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 2011 (Original story)

Full list, including reprints are on the vampwriter.com website

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "RT Career Achievement Awards". http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-awards/nominees-and-winners?award_type=author&year=2010#Paranormal/Urban+Fantasy. Retrieved November 24, 2010. 
2. ^ "Super-Fangs; Author's vampire novels take new twist". Fort Worth Star-Telegram: p. 4. June 17, 1992. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ST&s_site=dfw&p_multi=ST&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF8E87E42047AC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved May 3, 2010. 
3. ^ "My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon (Book review)". Publishers Weekly. 2007-11-12. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33466820_ITM. 
4. ^ "Best Sellers: Paperback Trade Fiction". The New York Times. January 20, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/bestseller/0120bestpapertradefiction.html?pagewanted=print. 
5. ^ "My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon". ParaNormalRomance. February 20, 2009. http://paranormalromance.org/reviews/book.php?id=12141. 
6. ^ http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-daily-blog/rt-booklovers-convention-2011-we-honor-outstanding-books-and-authors-2010

External links

• Official Website
• Blog
• P. N. Elrod at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Lord Ruthven Award
• RT Book Reviews Pioneers of the Genre Awards

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Name	Elrod, P. N.
Alternative names	Pat Elrod
Short description	author, editor
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