Before becoming a multiple award-winning, best-selling fiction author, Melinda Rucker Haynes worked as an adult education research project director and published nonfiction. She jokes she learned to write fiction as a grant writer who moonlighted as a corporate trainer of fascinating people working at an area in the Nevada desert that didn’t exist. After gypsying around the world, living in four foreign countries—most recently Washington D.C. and Tucson, Arizona—Melinda continues to search out enchanted stories beyond her imaginary magical story pool in ghost towns, massive cities, vast night skies, and mysterious ancient sites throughout the world. A winner of over twenty writing awards, her interests and hobbies include magical thinking, frequent fantasy flying, past lives exploration, and opus magnum experimentation. Melinda keeps busy doing hot laps in her magical story pool with the menopausal vampire and her next BITTEN tale.