Rachel Caine was the pen name of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad, who also published under the names Ian Hammel and Julie Fortune. Her first novel, Stormriders, a tie-in with the Shadow World roleplaying game, was published in 1990. She published original fiction under her own name as well as a Stargate SG-1 novel.
She relaunched her career in 2003 as Rachel Caine with the Weather Warden adult urban fantasy series. Under the same name she also wrote the Red Letter Days urban fantasy duology and the YA Morganville Vampires series, her best-known and most successful work. She also wrote the Outcast Season, Revivalist, Honors, Great Library and Stillhouse Lake series, along with a large output of short fiction. A prolific author, she wrote 58 novels and cumulatively sold several million books during her career.
Caine was diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma, a type of cancer, in 2018, and publicly chronicled her battle with the disease on Twitter, winning tremendous amounts of support. She passed away yesterday and is survived by her husband, to whom we pass our condolences.
I just stumbled upon these amazing Stillhouse Lake books and I am extremely saddened to hear about the passing of this multi-talentented woman! She accomplished so much in her short lifetime and her family must be so proud of her! Life isn't fair, as it takes away the really good people way before their time! I bet she's entertaining people in heaven right now as we speak! Thanks for all of the wonderful material you left behind for us, girlfriend! ❤️❤️❤️
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