They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.~ Edgar Allan Poe
My short story, "Tree Line", is now available from Aurora Wolf.
03/02/10Emerald Tales - Carnivale is now available in electronic and print formats. My short story, "The Tattooed Woman" is featured.
02/20/10The pirate anthology, Skulls & Crossbones, is now available in print and electronic formats. My short story, "Ladgarda", is featured in it.
10/09/09My short story, "Father's Sword", was accepted in the anthology, Dreams and Screams, put together by several fantasy publishers.
05/07/09The Deep Dim book trailer is available now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOTRIwO_R3w
Christine Rains grew up in a small town in southern Ontario. One of those places where there was nothing to do other than fish, watch television or vandalize town property. Thankfully, she had a vivid imagination to keep her entertained. As soon as she could read, she was never without a book in her hands. Everyone described her as a quiet child. She was always lost to the worlds inside of her head.
Her love of reading was only matched by her love of writing. At a young age, she was drawn to the horror genre. Her favorite author was Stephen King and she was digging into his books by the time she was ten years old. Her first infamous series of short stories were about The Kingham Kids. Of course, the stories were only infamous in her neighborhood, but it inspired her towards bigger and better stories.
Christine has always had a thirst for knowledge and left home at seventeen to go to college in northern Ontario. She got a diploma in Law Administration and did a second one for Creative Writing on the side. She tried to get published at this time, but the rejections she received were too much for her fragile ego and she stopped submitting. What she wrote, she did for herself and kept the stories hoarded away in a secret stash.
After working as a security guard in Vancouver, Christine realized that law administration was best left to those who liked routine, running and paperwork. At twenty, she moved back to southern Ontario and attended Brock University in St. Catharines. Her first degree was in Sociology. It stirred up a different perspective in her writing, and when she went on to get a second degree in Philosophy, it opened another dimension entirely. She wrote stories that extended over several genres: fantasy, mystery, science-fiction, slipstream, and surrealism.
Christine met her future husband her last year of university. He was from Indiana and she had no desire for a long distance relationship. Yet as time went on, they grew closer and soon they could be apart no longer. They were married by Elvis on May 29th of 2008 in Las Vegas.
Over the past eight years, Christine has written seven novels and several short stories. She has grown out of her desire to be a horror writer, but there is still a dark edge to her writing. She has found her niche in urban fantasy/paranormal romance. She has two novels, eight short stories published and two forthcoming.