Valerie Gaumont is an evil genius whose mission is to take over the world. Her latest efforts were thwarted when her flying monkey army discovered beer. Currently they are in Rehab because no one likes a drunk flying monkey. (Thank you for your cards and letters of support.) When she is taking a break from villainy she can often be found with a pen in her hand. Yes, sometimes she is doodling, other times writing fiction and discovering new and interesting ways to combine reality with the outré.

She has had short stories in the Violet Ampersand Anthology, Poetry, Prose and Other Voyages to the Edge, and the online Journal, Gothic Fairytales for Melancholy Children. In 2007 she was listed as a finalist in the William Faulkner International Writing Competition in the Novel-In-Progress category. As villainy is mostly an unpaid occupation, to pay for her flying monkey army Valerie works as an architectural historian. She has periodically moved around the country with very little rhyme or reason and currently lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Christmas however usually finds her in Greenville, South Carolina being trampled by her brother’s dog and thinking up ways to convince her mother that every night should be lasagna night.

Contacting the Author:

Val can be reached by e-mail at valerie.gaumont@brownstreetpress.com and you can catch up with her blog at http://valeriegaumont.blogspot.com/, where you can get a sneak peak at her next book Storm Chaser (summer 2009 release).

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