Christie Golden is the award-winning author of twenty-seven novels and over a dozen short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Vampire of the Mists was her first novel, launching both her career and the Ravenloft novel line in 1991. Over the next few years, Golden went on to write several original fantasy novels, as well as A.D. 999, written under the pen name of Jadrien Bell. A.D. 999 won the Colorado Author's League Top Hand Award for Best Genre Novel of 1999.