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L.A. Banks

L.A. Banks
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L.A. Banks

New York Times best-selling author L.A. Banks has penned over 35 novels and 12 novellas in a wide range of genres. She was the recipient of the 2008 Essence Magazine Storyteller of the Year Award, as well as the 2008 Best 50 Women in Business Award for the State of Pennsylvania. Recently she was featured as a speaker on the HBO Special on Vampire Literature and Legends as a prelude to the True Blood premiere. She is most famous for her Vampire Huntress series, published by St. Martin's Press. She lives in Philadelphia.

Conquer the Dark will be released on September 27, 2011 in Mass Market Paperback, eBook
Sep 27, 2011
Conquer the Dark is now available in Mass Market Paperback, eBook
Sep 27, 2011
Surrender the Dark is now available in Mass Market Paperback, eBook
Mar 29, 2011
Surrender the Dark will be released on March 29, 2011 in Mass Market Paperback, eBook
Mar 29, 2011

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PublishersWeekly.com, March 12, 2012
...Pleasure by Lora Leigh, Vampire Dead Ahead by Cheyenne McCray Stroke of Midnight anthology by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley, L.A. Banks, and Lori Handeland Tawny Weber, Christine Heroes & Heartbreakers  – One “Hot” Prize Pack including Live...
PublishersWeekly.com, March 10, 2012
...Pleasure by Lora Leigh, Vampire Dead Ahead by Cheyenne McCray Stroke of Midnight anthology by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley, L.A. Banks, and Lori Handeland Heroes & Heartbreakers  – One “Hot” Prize Pack including Live Wire by Lora...
PublishersWeekly.com, February 8, 2012
...smorgasbord of girl-power goodness that can’t be put down. Along with Rachel Caine, CKB includes stories by L.A. Banks, Rachel Vincent, Karen Chance, Lilith Saintcrow, Cheyenne McCray, Jenna Black, Susan Krinard, Jeanne Stein, Elizabeth Vaughan, Carole...
Media Bistro, December 29, 2011
...In August 2011, novelist L.A. Banks (pictured) died after a battle with late stage adrenal cancer. We are collecting the major stories of each 2011 in our annual year-end roundup of publishing headlines. It...
Plymouth Patch, December 7, 2011
...I love a good story, the longer and more involved the better. The best part of reading, for me, is being introduced to new worlds and the characters that inhabit that world. I was fourteen when I read my first horror book. It was Stephen King’s Salem's...
Indianapolis Recorder, November 29, 2011
...are for men and solely involve superheroes." She also suggests recruiting more African-American authors like the late L.A. Banks, who wrote the "Vampire Huntress" series, to the comic book industry. Another idea is to place popular black female comic...
Louisville Channel, November 29, 2011
...comics are for men and solely involve superheroes."She also suggests recruiting more African-American authors like the late L.A. Banks, who wrote the "Vampire Huntress" series, to the comic book industry. Another idea is to place popular black female...
USA Today, February 21, 2012
...I told a member of my family the news! Then I was humbled. Knowing what an amazing woman L.A. Banks was I felt immediately unworthy. To be honored with the very first award given in her memory is just incredible. But, as I told Carol Stacy of RT...
Press TV, February 11, 2012
...Anti-Wall Street protesters have targeted numerous banks in the city of Los Angeles, protesting against the country’s economic inequalities, Press TV reports. Occupy Los Angeles demonstrators on Friday protested at various Wall Street banks across the...
PublishersWeekly.com, February 8, 2012
...smorgasbord of girl-power goodness that can’t be put down. Along with Rachel Caine, CKB includes stories by L.A. Banks, Rachel Vincent, Karen Chance, Lilith Saintcrow, Cheyenne McCray, Jenna Black, Susan Krinard, Jeanne Stein, Elizabeth Vaughan, Carole...
Earthzine, February 6, 2012
...programme on the Bus Transit System in Taiwan. Transport Reviews, 2008. 28(5): p. 573–592. 10. Swope, C., L.A. banks on buses, in Planning. 2006, American Planning Association. p. 32-36. 11. Gray, J. Pollution from construction. 2010 1 October 2010 3...
Books on The Knob, October 14, 2011
...-- and the perils graver -- than any con game Ciara's ever played.... Surrender the Dark, by L. A. Banks (recommended author)Book DescriptionNational bestselling author L.A. Banks’s electrifying new paranormal series is set in a sizzling world where...
Fantasy Literature's Fantasy Book and Audiobook Re, October 2, 2011
...reading material with me:  Linda Poitevin ‘s  Sins of the Angels (in the middle of it),  L.A. Banks ‘  Conquer the Dark (just started it), and an older book that just arrived in the mail Thursday:  Pillar of the Sky by Cecelia Holland . Marion...
Literary Escapism, September 17, 2011
...To celebrate the Monkey going back to school, I gave away sight different graphic novels – 3 copies of Patricia Brigg’s Moon Called Volume 1 , 2 copies of Charlaine Harris’ Grave Sight: Book 1 , LA Banks’ Dawn and Darkness: Volume 1 , and Jim...