She is constantly dodging assassination attempts while juggling life in the 'real world' where everyone knows faeries exist. Merry Gentry is a Princess of Faerie and a private investigator.There was also a special prologue comic issued named, 'The First Death'. As of May 2012, the comic-book series has included her first three books, Guilty Pleasures, Laughing Corpse and Circus of the Damned. Anita Blake comics are the comic-book renditions of the Anita Blake series.As of 2009 more than 6 million copies of Anita Blake novels have been printed and several have become New York Times bestsellers. As of November 2013, Hamilton has published 22 novels and 5 novellas in the Anita Blake series. Louis where vampires and were-animals exist and recently gained some rights as citizens. She is also a vampire executioner and in later books a U.S. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter is an animator and necromancer who raises the dead for a living.Hamilton is the author of two major book series, spin-off comic books, various anthologies, and other stand-alone titles: Louis County, Missouri, with her daughter Trinity, and husband Jonathon Green whom she married in 2001.

Hamilton is involved with a number of animal charities, particularly supporting dog rescue efforts and wolf preservation.

They have one daughter together, Trinity. She met Gary Hamilton, whom she married, there. Her education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion College (now called Indiana Wesleyan University), a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Marion, Indiana that is affiliated with the Wesleyan Church denomination. Laurell Kaye Hamilton was born Laurell Kaye Klein in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in Sims, Indiana with her grandmother Laura Gentry. Several media outlets, including USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and Time have identified her works as significant contributions to the development of the urban-fantasy genre. Both of these fantasy series follow their protagonists as they gain in power and deal with the dangers of worlds in which creatures of legend live. Her Merry Gentry series centers on Meredith Gentry, Princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie, a private detective facing repeated assassination attempts. Six million copies of Anita Blake novels are in print.

Her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series centers on Anita Blake, a professional zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant for the police, which includes novels, short story collections, and comic books. She is best known as the author of two series of stories. Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American fantasy and romance writer. Fantasy, Erotica, Romance, Horror, Science fiction

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