Carmilla Voiez writes extreme horror. She lives in North East Scotland with her two children, tom cat, and a poet, by the sea and finds inspiration in the wildlife, castles and desolate places that surround her. Her novels "The Ballerina and the Revolutionary" and "The Starblood Trilogy" are available for Kindle and in paperback. Carmilla's short stories can be found in a number of anthologies, including "Slice Girls," "Klarissa Dreams" and "Hope and Love Anthology." Her imagery harks back to the writings of Clive Barker and H P Lovecraft, but her voice is uniquely female. A varied diet of feminism and activism, a deep love of horror and a fascination with the Goth aesthetic created the creature of darkness we find today. Her books are both extraordinarily personal and universally challenging. As Jef Rouner of Houston Press once said - "You do not read her books, you survive them."