[3][4] Her stories also appeared in anthologies such as The Best of Weird Tales,[5] The Year's Best Science Fiction, Women of Darkness, Borderlands II,[4] Adventures in the Twilight Zone,[6] and Dead End: City Limits: An Anthology of Urban Fear[7] along with multiple editions of the Sword and Sorceress series.
[12][13] Her novel Darkspawn, about a vampire prince who awakens to find his world overrun with barbarians, mixes a vampire tale with the sword and sorcery genre[14] and was called "an innovative tale of horror" by Grahan Wilson and Paul Di Filippo in Realms of Fantasy.
[2] Tilton's novel Written in Venom retells the story of Loki and his betrayal of Odin, with Don D'Ammassa in Science Fiction Chronicle calling the novel "a nicely untraditional variant" of Norse mythology.
[16] Tilton was a short fiction reviewer for the website Locus Online from March 2010 till January 2016.
Tilton won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in the short form category for her story "Pericles the Tyrant" in 2006.