Early life

Hale spent a portion of her early childhood living in an off the grid cabin in California. Her father was fond of inventing humorous story-based games around figures from American History, including the game "Assassinate President Taft."

Career

Her debut book, Wicked Gentlemen (2007, Blind Eye Books), a book made up of two closely connected novellas blending elements of the steampunk

Steampunk

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United...

, paranormal

Paranormal

Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...

, gay romance and suspense

Suspense

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead-up to a big event or dramatic...

 genres, won the 2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for best novel, in addition to being selected as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Award

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 the same year. She then collaborated with Astrid Amara and Nicole Kimberling on two shared-world anthologies for Loose Id, called Hell Cop and Hell Cop 2. In 2010 she returned to Blind Eye Books to release Lord of the White Hell Books One and Two. In 2011 she will release a 10 part serialized novel titled The Rifter.

Personal life

Hale now resides on the Pacific Northwest coast of the USA with her wife. She is an avid supporter of Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends Animal Society, founded in its present form in 1984, is an American nonprofit 501 organization that is one of America’s best known animal welfare rescue groups. Best Friends works in outreach programs with shelters, other rescue groups and members nationwide to promote pet adoption,...

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Novels

• Wicked Gentlemen (2007): Blind Eye Books - ISBN 978-0978986117 (print + ebook)
• Lord of the White Hell (2010): Blind Eye Books
  • Book One - ISBN 978-0978986162 (print + ebook)
  • Book Two - ISBN 978-0978986179 (print + ebook)
• The Rifter (2011): Blind Eye Books
  • Book One: The Shattered Gates - ISBN 978-1-935560-01-2
  • Book Two: Servants of the Crossed Arrows - ISBN 978-1-935560-01-2
  • Book Three: Black Blades - ISBN 978-1-935560-03-6
  • Book Four: Witches' Blood - ISBN 978-1-935560-04-3
  • Book Five: The Holy Road - ISBN 978-1-935560-05-0
  • Book Six: Broken Fortress - ISBN 978-1-935560-06-7
  • Book Seven: Enemies and Shadows - ISBN 978-1-935560-07-4
  • Book Eight: The Silent City - ISBN 978-1-935560-08-1
  • Book Nine: The Iron Temple - ISBN 978-1-935560-09-8
  • Book Ten: His Holy Bones - unreleased

Short Stories and Novellas

• Feral Machines in the anthology Tangle XY: Blind Eye Books - ISBN 978-0978986100 (print + ebook)
• Touching Sparks in the anthology Hell Cop (2008) with Astrid Amara and Nicole Kimberling: Loose Id - ISBN 978-1-59632-812-9 (ebook)
• Such Heights in the anthology Hell Cop 2 (2009) with Astrid Amara and Nicole Kimberling: Loose Id - ISBN 978-1-59632-948-5 (ebook)
• Shy Hunter in the anthology Queer Wolf (2009): Queered Fiction - ISBN 978-1920441005 (print and ebook)
• Things Unseen and Deadly (2012): Blind Eye Books - in the anthology Irregulars with Josh Lanyon
  Josh Lanyon
  Josh Lanyon is an American writer of LGBT mystery and adventure fiction, usually with a strong romantic subplot.Over the past decade Lanyon has written numerous novels, novellas and short stories as well as the non-fiction writing guide Man, Oh Man! Writing M/M Fiction for Kinks and Ca$h...
  
  , Astrid Amara and Nicole Kimberling

Interviews

• at The World in a Satin Bag (Oct 2008)
• at Reviews by Jessewave (Jan 2009)
• at Fantasy Book Cafe (Aug 2010)