Danielle Blanchard Benson is a world traveler and a university student earning her degree in Creative Writing with a Minor in Specialized Languages (French). She has written The Beautiful People series, which will be released in eight separate volumes.

Ms. Blanchard Benson is currently working on The Vamp Saga (Death Wish: Book One will be released in January of 2012), Murder, Inc: The Pop Stars series (which will be released beginning in autumn of 2012), and a full-length novel, DeGeneration (which will be released in winter of 2013).

Ms. Blanchard Benson has lived abroad in Stockholm (Sweden), Manchester (England), Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland. She currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Website: http://sites.google.com/site/danielleblanchardbenson/
Twitter: vegasgyrl007

• vegasgyrl007: @Daezarkian, you are so awesome! Thanks for the shout out. #Bloodskies rocks... when's the sequel coming out again? ;-)
• vegasgyrl007: Controversy: Book Six will be out on Smashwords, Amazon and B&N by September 1, 2011.
• vegasgyrl007: @Geraldine_Solon No worries... I will just have to buy it. Thanks. ;-)
• vegasgyrl007: @Shea_MacLeod, fingers firmly crossed. Let's hope both of us are in a good enough position to one day write full time! Good luck, chicka. ;)
• vegasgyrl007: @GeraldineSolon Is there a free smashwords coupon code?

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• Cage Life on July 20, 2011
  
  Cage Life consists of two short stories but to be honest, that is all one can possibly handle. The roller coaster ride of emotions I felt while reading Cage Life (a tragic incident unites a couple who believed their marriage is beyond saving) continued through the second story, The Usurper (a tragic and cautionary tale of falling for the wrong person in the winter of one's life and the brutal consequences of this startling decision). I completely understand why the author titled the collection Cage Life because whether we are young or old, it's so easy to build our own prisons and trap ourselves in a hell of our own making. This short story collection is a tour de force which very few authors can ever hope to achieve however Ms. Cox has excelled in spades.
  
• Marked: City of the Damned Book 1 on July 29, 2011
  
  This was a well written story I enjoyed very much. Sara moves from Montana after the tragic death of her parents to New York City to be closer to her only surviving relatives. Although we don't meet her aunt and uncle in this story, we do meet Pryse and Gedeon. I won't say anything else as one needs to find out for themselves about these characters. This is easily a 5 star book but I had to remove one star for editing and formatting (both need to be revised a bit more).
  
• Hellfire: City of the Damned Book 2 on July 30, 2011
  
  I expected a bit more action (a la the first novelette) but this book was more of an erotic short with a thin veneer of a vampire story. It is not that I don't enjoy sex as much as the next person, I just thought we would learn a little bit more about Gedeon and Sara, and less about how their love life was doing. These are very interesting characters and I hated to see them reduced to nothing but a porn plot and little else.
  
• Unforeseen: City of the Damned Book 3 on July 30, 2011
  
  This is a much needed turn from the second novelette. The only downside is it ends much too abruptly and although we know there will be a fourth novelette, I felt cheated somehow. I wanted to know a bit more. I still feel like there is so much to know about these characters (Sara and Gedeon especially) that hasn't been explored yet. I hope we learn more about them as people. The sex was also steamy and flowed perfectly with the plot.
  
• Kissed by Darkness on Aug. 04, 2011
  
  Where's the sequel? I know there is one but I want it now! Seriously, the vampire genre is tired but Ms. MacLeod knows just what to do to bring it back to life. This book starts good and ends with "What the hell?"... I had no idea where I was going but all I do know is that I'm willing to follow Morgan, Jack, Inigo and Kabita where ever they plan to take me. I heard the next one takes place in London so I am seriously looking forward to this beauty kicking serious vampire butt across the pond... I absolutely cannot wait!
  
• Kissed by Fire on Sep. 16, 2011
  
  Just when one thought the Sunwalker Saga couldn't get any better, Ms. MacLeod throws a major monkey-wrench into the plan and blows us all away with an amazing plot, tightly controlled sequences, interesting and amazingly three dimensional characters and the results are an amazing story which works and reads way too quick for my liking. Ms. MacLeod is a gifted story teller and breathes new life in the paranormal genre. Can't wait for her next offering.
  
• How To Keep Sparkly Emo Vampires Off Your Lawn on Sep. 22, 2011
  
  Absolutely hilarious. Mr. Cooley has the kind of humor I find funny and takes quite the bite out of the whole Twilight Saga with this spoof novelette. It is cute and has a bit of a kick to it but I absolutely adored the premise and the poor old man who still isn't safe... let him pass to the next world soon enough so he can finally get some peace!
  
• I Zombie I on Oct. 12, 2011
  
  This is absolutely, without a doubt, the best zombie book I have ever read. Okay, it's the only zombie book I have ever read but it is beautiful and well-written. Mr. Wallen takes the story of Jacob Plummer, a reporter, and documents his descent into Hell. I could tell you what that Hell is but then I would have to kill you. You meet some very interesting characters including, Susan, a young teenager who reminded me of the teen from 28 Days Later and Bethany Nitshimi, definitely the tough woman of the novel. All I can say is this book is well written and the best book I have read in the horror genre. It is up there with Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King and The Dome, which is one of my favorite books of all time. Mr. Wallen, like Mr. King, is a genius at making a never-gonna-happen event like a zombie take-over, seem not only realistic but plausible. Well done.
  
• Kissed by Smoke on Dec. 20, 2011
  
  Ms. MacLeod has done it again. In this installment in one of my fave series, Morgan and Inigo are still going strong but she receives a cryptic message from Trevor on her birthday. This leads to a journey on tribal lands and deals with the death of a special agent. Enter faeries, demons, and other supernatural creatures (including a vamp or two) and you have a non-stop adventure that leads Morgan and Co. straight into trouble. A killer cliffhanger which is not only satisfying but incredibly intriguing leaves us with one question which shouldn't be a surprise to people who are reading the series: Who the hell is trying to kill Morgan Bailey??? Loved this book and anxiously await the next installment of what is turning out to be an awesome series.
  
• Aaren on May 17, 2012
  
  Aaren is the story of a successful businesswoman who must come back to her small, Kentucky hometown to bury her father after he's died. What we don't know, we learn in flashbacks, including Aaren had a man, Jarrod, her first love, who still resides there and who she wants nothing to do with due to their awful demise over fourteen years ago. I can understand how Aaren would be confused as she's just lost her remaining parent, but I can't understand how she takes everything to such an extreme when it comes to Jarrod. She treats the man like utter crap and won't hear anything he has to say to her and such bullheadedness makes me annoyed. Then there was the whole "let's be PC and advocate condom usage". First of all, the people who read these novels should be adults and if said adults don't know they should practice safe sex, even with the "loves of their lives" then this book isn't going to set them straight. I don't know, I am being a bit petty but there are two occasions my pettiness comes out: when a novel tries to get all preachy and sanctimonious, and when a romance novel tries to advocate safe sex. It is FICTION, a fantasy for Pete's sake, we don't need "he grabbed a condom" thrown in before every love scene is consummated. Other than that, I love this author and think her books are fantastic but the whole "town secret" is anti-climatic to be honest (both my parents hail from Mississippi so this little itty bitty town secret included is nothing to some of the secrets I can tell about my own family) and throwing in the hubby to conjure up yet more drama towards the end was waste of time, space and the book could have ended about twenty pages earlier than it did instead of being dragged on for nothing at all.