Carole Nelson Douglas

## About the Author

* **Genres**: Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance
* **Writing Style**: “All of Douglas’s novels use a mainstream matrix to blend elements of mystery or fantasy with contemporary issues and psychological realism. A literary chameleon with an agenda, Douglas has reinvented the roles of women in a variety of fiction forms.”
* **Books:** Carole Nelson Douglas Books

### Biography

Carole Nelson Douglas, author of more than fifty fantasy and science fiction, mystery, mainstream, and romance novels, was an award-winning reporter and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. After writing some bestselling high fantasy novels and SF thrillers, she imported fantasy notions into her Midnight Louie mystery series, which features a hard-boiled Las Vegas PI who’s a feline “Sam Spade with hairballs.” Her Irene Adler historical series made Carole the first author to use a woman from the Sherlock Holmes stories as a protagonist in the 1991 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. She’s won or been short-listed for more than fifty writing awards in nonfiction, sf/fantasy, mystery, and romance genres, including several from the Romance Writers of America and Romantic Times BOOKreviews magazine, and the Cat Writers’ Association. In 2008, RT BOOKreviews magazine named Carole a “pioneer of the publishing industry. Carole and husband Sam Douglas, a former art museum exhibitions director and kaleidoscope designer, are kept as pets by five stray cats and a dog in Fort Worth, Texas. She collects vintage clothing, and does a mean Marilyn Monroe impersonation, and, yes, she does dance, but not with werewolves. As far as she knows.

She began writing fiction in the late 1970s. The late director/playwright/novelist Garson Kanin, a pleased interview subject, took her first novel to Doubleday and it sold shortly after. Amberleigh is a post-feminist historical Gothic novel. Douglas has always addressed women's issues in her fiction and preferred mixing genres from contemporary to historical mystery/thriller, romance and women's fiction, and high and urban fantasy.

## Series

### Sword and Circlet series

* Genre: Sword and Sorcery
* Theme: outcast Sorceress and Swordsman must save there world.
* Books in series:
	1. Six of Swords (Sword and Circlet) (1982)
	2. Exiles of the Rynth (Sword and Circlet) (1984)
	3. Keepers of Edanvant (Sword and Circlet) (1987)
	4. Heir of Rengarth (Sword and Circlet) (1988)
	5. Seven of Swords (Sword and Circlet) (1989)

### Probe Duology

* Genre: Science Fiction
* Theme: Mysterious amnesiac is found
* Series list:
	1. Probe (Probe Book 1) (1985)
	2. Counterprobe (Probe Book 2) (1988)

### Taliswoman series

* Genre: Fantasy
* Theme: Multiple worlds via gates
* Series list:
	1. Cup of Clay (Taliswoman) (1991)
	2. Seed Upon the Wind (Taliswoman) (1992)

### Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator series

* Genre: Urban Fantasy
* Theme: paranormal investigative reporter, witches, werewolves, vampires

### Irene Adler series

* Genre: Alt History, Historical Fantasy, Mystery
	1. Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes Book 1) (1990)
	2. The Adventuress (Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes Book 2), orig. title *Good Morning Irene* (1991),
	3. A Soul of Steel (Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes Book 3), orig. title *Irene at Large*(1992),
	4. Another Scandal in Bohemia (Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes Book 4), orig. title *Irene's Last Waltz* (1994)
	5. Chapel Noir (Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes Book 5) (2001)
	6. Castle Rouge (Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes Book 6) (2002)
	7. Femme Fatale (Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes Book 7) (2003)
	8. Spider Dance (Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes Book 8) (2004)

## Other Writings

### Midnight Louie Cozy Mystery series

Author of the popular cozy mystery series.

### Short Stories

* *Celebrity Vampires* (1995 - Horror Anthology)
* *Rivals of Dracula* (1996 - Horror Anthology)
* *Past Lives, Present Tense* (1999 - Science Fiction Anthology)
* 5.1. Hex Appeal (2010) "Snow Job"
* Chicks Kick Butt (2011) "Monster Mash"

**Irene Adler Short Stories:**

* "Parris Greene" (1992), printed in *Malice Domestic 2*, *Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Third Annual Edition*, *First Cases, Vol. 2*,
* "Dracula on the Rocks" (1995), printed in *Celebrity Vampires*,
* "The Thief of Twelfth Night" (1996), printed in *Holmes for the Holidays*,
* "Mesmerizing Bertie" (1998), printed in *Crime Through Time II*
* "A Baker Street Irregular" (1998), printed in *Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives*
* "The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes" (2009), printed in *Sex, Lies, and Private Eyes*

### Novels

These may not all be speculative fiction.

* Amberleigh (1980)
* In Her Prime (1982)
* Her Own Person (1982)
* The Best Man (1983)
* Lady Rogue (1983)
* Azure Days, Quicksilver Nights (1985)
* The Exclusive (1986)
* Fair Wind, Fiery Star (1994)
* A Wall Street Christmas Carol (2011)