LA Banks is the New York Times Bestselling author the very popular Vampire Huntress series. She was awarded the Essence inaugural Storyteller of the Year award in 2007. Banks started writing urban fantasy featuring a kick ass female long before it was the popular sub genre du jour. She’s now only a few books away from completing the Damali Richards’ series and this month is launching a new werewolf series called Crimson Moon novels. I didn’t get to be part of the Vampire Huntress series because I was late to the game, but I will be picking up a copy of Bad Blood soon.
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My start in the world of publishing was more akin to the Robin Williams movie, Jumanji than the simple “road less traveled.” If I turn back the clock to the early 90’s, my daughter, who was six months old at the time, had just suffered a severe burn at the hands of a careless daycare center worker. After 17 surgeries, the loss of three of her precious little fingers, and no settlement case to be had …
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Essence held its first annual Literary Award ceremony last night. The Storyteller of the Year Award was given to LA Banks, author of the Vampire Huntress series. The Storyteller of the Year award is voted on by the ESSENCE readers.
It has awarded the The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson its first ever Essence Literary Award for fiction.
Terry McMillan was given the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. There was a certain synergy in this award since McMillan had won ESSENCE’s first ever college-writing contest in 1974.
All other winners can be seen at the Essence.com site.
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