She received a liberal arts education from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and was inducted into the Phi Alpha Theta honors society.

[1] Laura Anne Gilman is a member of the Book View Cafe, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and Novelists, Inc. After publishing several short stories (her first professional fiction sale was 1994 to Amazing Stories), some media tie-ins, and a job as an executive editor, she published her first original novel Staying Dead, a "Cosa Nostradamus"-universe "Retrievers" book.

[1] The first book of a second series in this universe named "Paranormal Scene Investigations", Hard Magic, was published in 2010.

Cosa Nostradamus is the name given to the entire magical community – Human Talent and non-human ‘fatae.’ "Wine.

The Vinearts, those responsible for crafting each vintage, are a solitary caste, tending their vines and wines and rarely communicating with each other.

Something is going very wrong in the vineyards, from pests to plagues out of season, and it drives that Master Vineart to break that solitude and try to gather information before the vines are lost.

It is an unexplained mutation, the Long gene, dragons come down to warp the basic recipe of humanity.