Diana Rowland Explained

Diana Rowland
Pseudonym:Diana Rowland
Occupation:Novelist
Nationality:American
Period:2009 to present
Genre:Fantasy

Diana Rowland is an urban fantasy writer and is best known for her Kara Gillian Series and White Trash Zombie Series. She has worked as a bartender, a blackjack dealer, a pit boss, a street cop, a detective, a computer forensics specialist, a crime scene investigator, and a morgue assistant.[1] She presently lives in south Louisiana with her husband and her daughter.[2]

Diana Rowland is a graduate of the 1998 Clarion West Writers Workshop. In 2005, Rowland won first place in the third quarter of the Writers of the Future contest for her short story "Schroedinger's Hummingbird."[3] This was her first time entering the contest. In 2011 Rowland was nominated for an RT Reviewer's Choice award for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist for her character Angel Crawford from My Life as a White Trash Zombie. In 2012 Rowland was again nominated for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist for Angel Crawford, this time for Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues, and won. In 2013 Rowland received an RT Reviewer's Choice nomination for Best Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding for Touch of the Demon.

In 2012 the audiobook of My Life as a White Trash Zombie, narrated by Allison McLemore, was nominated for an Audie award.[4] [5]

Bibliography

Kara Gillian series

A series that starts with Homicide Detective Kara Gillian accidentally summoning a demon prince while investigating a string of murders.

  1. Mark of the Demon
  2. Blood of the Demon
  3. Secrets of the Demon
  4. Sins of the Demon
  5. Touch of the Demon
  6. Fury of the Demon
  7. Vengeance of the Demon
  8. Legacy of the Demon
  9. Rise of the Demon

White Trash Zombie series

  1. My Life As a White Trash Zombie (2011)
  2. Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues (2012)
  3. White Trash Zombie Apocalypse (2013)
  4. How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back (2014)
  5. White Trash Zombie Gone Wild (Release date: October, 6th 2015)
  6. White Trash Zombie Unchained (Release date: September 5, 2017)

Short fiction

  1. "Extant"-- The Age of Reason: Stories for a new Millenium, edited by Kurt Roth 1999 (Honorable Mention in the 17th Annual Year's Best Science Fiction)
  2. "Schroedinger's Hummingbird" -- L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future Vol. XXII 2006
  3. "Fine Print" -- The Wild Side, edited by Mark Van Name. 2011
  4. "City Lazarus" -- Dangerous Women, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, 2013

Interviews

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Author Interview: Diana Rowland. RT Book Reviews. March 17, 2014. June 3, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120603183727/http://www.rtbookreviews.com/author-interview-diana-rowland. dead.
  2. Web site: Diana Rowlands's Bio . July 15, 2012 . Diana Rowland's Website . July 15, 2012.
  3. Web site: Interview with Diana Rowland. Writers of the Future. March 17, 2014. March 30, 2013. https://archive.today/20131204031356/http://www.writersofthefuture.com/writingcontestnews/2013/03/30/interview-with-diana-rowland/1005. December 4, 2013. dead.
  4. Web site: Klose. Stephanie. Audie Award Finalists Announced. Library Journal. April 10, 2013. March 17, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20131202222502/http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/in-the-bookroom/post/audie-award-finalists-announced/. December 2, 2013. dead.
  5. Web site: 2013's Audie Awards Finalists are Criminal. Criminalelement.com. February 23, 2013. March 17, 2014 .

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