Dana Hughes is an ape-descended biped from a small, mostly irrelevant planet in one of the Milky Way Galaxy's outer spiral arms. She was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas but does not consider herself a "Texas native." In point of fact, she would much rather live in New York, London, or really anywhere else for that matter. Preferably somewhere the climate is cool and the people don't sacrifice you to their god.Her childhood involved a steady diet of Dungeons & Dragons, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Uncanny X-Men comics, Pink Floyd, Morrissey, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and pretty much everything else you would expect of someone from Generation X. There was a shocking lack of drugs and alcohol which she is currently trying to rectify.Dana is 45 years old and likes coffee, coffee cake, and everything else with coffee in the name. If there was such a thing as a coffee cat (as in, a cat that looked and smelled like coffee) she would own all of them. She prefers to call herself a "writer" because she writes things. "Authors" are writers who are successful. That is not her. She spends entirely too much time reading Wikipedia, TV Tropes, and other online time sinks. She is not good at self-promotion and likes to talk about herself in the third person. Ahem.She was inspired by the likes of Douglas Adams, David Wong, and Warren Ellis. Aside from two novels and a couple of short story collections, her other work includes a writer / game designer credit for the tabletop role-playing game "Beast: The Primordial" from Onyx Path Publishing, which is part of the "new" World of Darkness or the rechristened "Chronicles of Darkness" setting. Oh, and for the record, it's not her fault.Read more about this authorRead less about this author