Rachel Caine is the internationally bestselling author of thirty novels, including the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Morganville Vampires young adult series: Glass Houses, The Dead Girls’ Dance, Midnight Alley, Feast of Fools, Lord of Misrule, Carpe Corpus, and Fade Out, with five more to follow in 2009-2011. The series has been optioned for film, television and multimedia by prominent British production company Noel Gay Motion Pictures.
She also writes the bestselling Weather Warden series: Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor, Windfall, Firestorm, Thin Air, Gale Force, and Cape Storm, with the final book, Total Eclipse, coming in August 2010. She recently launched a third series, Outcast Season (Undone, Unknown, Unseen, Unbroken), with the second book Unknown recently released in February 2010.
She has also written paranormal romantic action/adventure for Silhouette Bombshell, and her most recent paranormal romance novel, Athena Force: Line of Sight, was a 2008 RT Reviewer’s Choice award winner. She also published an original novel for the television show Stargate SG-1 (Sacrifice Moon) under the pseudonym of Julie Fortune in 2005. She previously published under the names Roxanne Longstreet and Roxanne Conrad.
She is a contributor to a number of Dallas publisher BenBella Books’ SmartPop anthologies of nonfiction essays, and had short fiction in several bestselling anthologies, including My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, Strange Brew (St. Martins) and Many Bloody Returns (Ace). and the upcoming Dark and Stormy Knights (July 2010).
Until recently, Rachel worked in corporate communications for a large multinational company based in Irving, Texas. She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas Tech University.
She and her husband, award-winning artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Fort Worth.
The less official version ...
Rachel Caine is a fictional person. That’s right, she doesn’t exist, which makes it extra easy to write all those books. Her alter ego, Roxanne Conrad, was born at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (yes, really), where her father was the “countdown voice” for missile launches, and her mother worked for genuine rocket scientists. All that radioactive science stuff must have worked, because Roxanne was fascinated with science fiction, fantasy, and adventure stories her whole life.
She didn’t set out to become a writer ... in fact, she intended to be a famous professional musician, and in fact did play professionally (clarinet) with several symphonies, and even played with famous conductors and composers like Henry Mancini, Peter Nero and John Williams. Ultimately, though, she decided to leave music for her other passion: writing.
Since 1991, she’s been publishing novels and working to improve her craft, while still somehow managing to succeed in the corporate world -- who knew that was possible? So she’s been at this writing thing a while. It’s worked out pretty well so far, right?
She lives in a cool mock-Tudor house with an actual turret, which is where she has her writing space (and the all-important coffee maker). She and her husband have a lot of hobbies, all of which seem to take up a lot of space, including a wicked home theater addiction.
Rachel and her husband have two much-adored pet iguanas, Darwin and Popeye.
See? Actual iguana.
CloseAbout my iguanasMy husband and I have kept lizards as pets since we were married -- chameleons, agamids, and iguanas. Our iguanas have their own sunroom at the back of our house, with a large multi-level cage, heat lamps, basking spots, the works. We feed them iguana chow (yes, they do make it!), plus fresh vegetables and fruits. (Iguanas are vegetarians.) Darwin is the bigger of the two, almost 6 feet in length.