USA Today bestselling author Kate Danley began her career with the novel The Woodcutter (published by 47North). It was honored with the Garcia Award for the Best Fiction Book of the Year, the first place Fantasy Book in the Reader Views Literary Awards, and was the first place winner of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Her other titles include Queen Mab, the Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker series, and the O'Hare House Mysteries. Her plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, and DC Metro area. Her screenplay Fairy Blood won first place in the Breckenridge Festival of Film Screenwriting Competition in the Action/Adventure Category. She has over three hundred film, television, and theatre credits to her name, and specializes in sketch, improv, stand-up, and Shakespeare. She trained in on-camera puppetry with Mr. Snuffleupagus and played the head of a twenty-foot dinosaur on an NBC pilot. She lost on Hollywood Squares.