John G. Hartness is a professional author and recovering theatre geek from Charlotte, North Carolina who likes loud music, fried pickles and cold beer. He's been published or accepted online in several journals including The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, CC&D, Deuce Coupe and Truckin'.

His first novel, The Chosen, is an urban fantasy about saving the world, snotty archangels, gambling, tattooed street preachers, immortals with family issues, bar brawls and the consequences of our decisions. John followed up The Chosen with Hard Day's Knight, a new twist on the vampire detective novel and the first in a planned series of five books. The sequel, Back in Black, dropped in March of 2011. Current plans for 2011 include book 3 of The Black Knight Chronicles and the first book of a new trilogy about the end of the world as we know it (and not feeling particularly fine) called Return to Eden.

John has been called "the Kevin Smith of Charlotte," and fans of Joss Whedon and Jim Butcher should enjoy his snarky slant on the fantasy genre.

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