lkh_lashouts | Author Pimping: Lilith Saintcrow

Author: Lilith Saintcrow
Website: http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com (soon to be redesigned)

Some of you may have already seen me pimping this author in various communities for authors who will probably be pimped in here, but I have to get in every last pimp-opp while I still can. This is an author I absolutely adore and would like to see do very well so she can continue to put out more books.

Lili's first big book just came out this month. Working for the Devil. Here's the synopsis I've been passing around:

Dante "Danny" Valentine is a Necromance in a dark, urban future filled with psionic supernaturals and anti-grav vehicles. She can summon spirits of the dead for brief periods of time. She can also tap into psionic energy called Power and she totes a badass katana (japanese sword). She is also a bounty hunter, which helps her pay off her mortgage in between Necromance gigs. But when a demon shows up on her doorway and drags her to Hell, she is given a mission by the devil himself. She has to track down a demon and kill him. She's ticked because she's not an assassin, but she really has no choice, so she reluctantly agrees...until she finds out she has a personal score to settle with her target.

Let me just tell you...it's great. It is 2 parts old-school Anita Blake combined with 1 part Dead Witch Walking and 1 part Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld. And don't let yourself be thrown off by the whole futuristic, anti-grav hovercar thing...it is just a setting for supernatural, paranormal, demon/psionic awesome action/story/hunt/thrill/etc. It is fantastic and I cannot wait for everyone else to read it and agree with me. It just makes me feel all warm and book-nerdy inside. :-D

She has two other series, both with two books so far. The Watcher series includes Dark Watcher and Storm Watcher, while her other series includes The Society and Hunter, Healer. While I have no read these books, I have read WftD, as well as some of her yet unpublished works (the joys of working in the publishing industry) and this woman is an AMAZING writer. Check her out and you won't be disappointed.

Note: If you can't find Working for the Devil in the sci-fi/fantasy section of your local bookstore, check the romance section. For some reason, some bookstores are trying to sell her as a romance author when she is clearly meant to follow in the footsteps of such dark fantasy greats as LKH (pre-Mary Sue smut) and Kelley Armstrong.

And also, can't help but pimp the community -- if you want more book pimping than you are getting here, check out my dark fantasy book pimp community,