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Carolyn Crane is an American author of the Disillusionists urban fantasy trilogy, as well as the Associates romantic suspense series. Her novel ''Off the Edge'' won a Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2014 for Best Romantic Suspense, making this the first self-published novel to win a RITA. ==Biography== Crane grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and Milwaukee, attending Arrowhead High School in Wisconsin.〔(Interview with Carolyn Crane ) SFF World〕 She studied English literature and earned her BA from the University of Minnesota in 1991〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winter 2010 Newsletter )〕 and currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two cats. Crane cites reading Diana Gabaldon's ''Outlander'', Laurel K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, and Kelley Armstrong's ''Bitten'' in reinspiring her to write after getting her degree.〔 Crane wrote two unpublished novels before she was picked up by agent Cameron McClure of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. In 2008, McClure sold the first two books of her new urban fantasy trilogy, The Disillusionists, to Bantam/Spectra, a division of Random House. Her debut novel, ''Mind Games'', was released March 23, 2010. Due to low sales, Spectra announced that summer that it would not opt for the third book in the series. The third was sold to Samhain Publishing, Audible.com released all three titles on October 25, 2011, and the series was optioned for TV.〔 Her first foray into self-publishing was collaborating with Meljean Brook and Jill Myles in the anthology ''Wild and Steamy'', in which Crane had a novella "Kitten-tiger & the Monk" that was a part of the Disilluionists world. 〔 She indicated in an interview with SFF World that she has two new series in development.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carolyn Crane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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