Until now my pat answer to people asking if Dawn and Kim were the same person has always been, ‘I heard that before, and I just laughed and laughed!’ (I have never really lied to a reader or a fan - I’ve just evaded the question.) I’ve also had readers who know Dawn and Kim are the same person, and have watched them jump down somebody’s throat and tell them, ‘This is not true, this is not so.’ They’re fighting my battles for me, because they know I love my privacy! They are very loyal, and I love them all. “I’ve had a lot of people link the Kim Harrison name with the Dawn Cook name. She lives in South Carolina with her husband and two children. Her first YA, Once Dead, Twice Shy, is forthcoming. At least two more books in the series are planned.

The first Hollows book, Dead Witch Walking (2004), was followed by The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (2005), Every Which Way But Dead (2005), A Fistful of Charms(2006), For a Few Demons More (2007), The Outlaw Demon Wails (2008 as Where Demons Dare in the UK) and White Witch, Black Curse (2009). She keeps the Harrison and Cook identities separate, and does public appearances as Harrison in a wig and a different wardrobe. In 2004 she began publishing The Hollows, her bestselling urban fantasy series about witch Rachel Morgan, as Kim Harrison. She also wrote fantasy The Decoy Princess (2005) and sequel Princess at Sea (2006). As Dawn Cook she published high fantasy First Truth (2002), followed by sequels Hidden Truth (2002), Forgotten Truth (2003), and Lost Truth (2004).

Kim Harrison, who began her career writing as Dawn Cook, grew up near Ann Arbor MI.

Forgotten Truth by Dawn Cook