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Elizabeth Donald

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in Merced, California, The United States

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Elizabeth Donald is a dark fiction writer fond of things that go chomp in the night. She is author of the Blackfire urban fantasy series and Nocturne vampire mystery series, as well as other novels, novellas and stories in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres. She is a three-time winner of the Darrell Award for speculative fiction and finalist for the Prism, Imadjinn and Knost awards, and more recently received the Mimi Zanger Award for fiction. She is the founder of the Literary Underworld small-press cooperative; an award-winning journalist and essayist with more than 25 years in journalism; a nature and art photographer; freelance editor and writing coach. She holds a masters degree in media studies and MFA in creative writing ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 267 ratings · 64 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Setting Suns 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nocturne (Nocturnal Urges, Books 1 and 2) 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nocturnal Urges (Nocturnal Urges, #1) 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cold Ones 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abaddon 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nocturne Infernum 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackfire 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infinity 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moonlight Sonata 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreadmire 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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July 2026 Linkspam

West Wing: Still waiting for Martin Sheen to burst in and save us all in the last five minutes.

Hello folks, and happy Independence Day! I know, most of you are probably feeling a lot of conflicting things in relation to this particular holiday, and if you check out the links below, I’ve taken a deep dive into my own thoughts about this milestone.

It’s been a bit of a rough month, as my temporary full-time contract is reverting to adjunct again. That means pretty much doubling my class load,

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

by Norman Maclean

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The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny

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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

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