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, and romance short stories and novels under her maiden and married names, and under the pseudonyms Les Simons, Kathryn Atwood, Anne Mayfield, and Kathleen Maxwell. She is the editor and publisher of the writers-market magazine ''The Gila Queen's Guide to Markets''.

Biography

Kathryn Anne Ptacek was born on September 12, 1952, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, but she was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her B. A. in Journalism, with a minor in history, with honors from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1974. She was married to

Charles L. Grant Charles Lewis Grant (September 12, 1942 – September 15, 2006) was an American novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called " dark fantasy" and "quiet horror". He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fe ...

from February 1982 until his death in 2006. She has also edited several

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of short stories. Her short story "Each Night, Each Year" was nominated for the 1989 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction.

Bibliography

This is a partial bibliography of her work.

As Les Simons

Single novels

* ''Gila!'' (1981)

As Kathryn Atwood

Single novels

* ''Satan's Angel'' (1981) * ''Renegade Lady'' (1982) * ''The Lawless Heart'' (1984) * ''My Lady Rogue'' (1986) * ''Aurora'' (1987)

As Anne Mayfield

Single novels

* ''The Wayward Widow'' (1982)

As Kathleen Maxwell

Single novels

* ''The Devil's Heart'' (1983) * ''Winter Masquerade'' (1984)

As Kathryn Ptacek

Single novels

* ''Shadoweyes'' (1984) * ''Blood Autumn'' (1985) * ''Kachina'' (1986) * ''In Silence Sealed'' (1988) * ''Ghost Dance'' (1990) * ''The Hunted'' (1993)

Omnibus collections

* ''Looking Backward in Darkness'' (2013)

As Kathryn Grant

Land of Ten Thousand Willows

# ''The Phoenix Bells'' (1987) # ''The Black Jade Road'' (1989) # ''The Willow Garden'' (1989)

Anthologies edited

* ''Women of Darkness'' (1989) * ''Women of Darkness II''

References and sources

External links

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