Barbara Barnett

Visit Barbara's official site at http://BarbaraBarnett.com

Barbara Barnett is author of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated historical fantasy, 'The Apothecary's Curse' (Pyr, October 2016) Her book on the TV series House, M.D., 'Chasing Zebras' (ECW Press, 2010) is a quintessential guide to the themes, characters and episodes of the hit show. She was a contributing writer to Shawn Tassone and Kathryn Landherr's wonderful book 'Spiritual Pregnancy'. Two of her short stories have been published in horror/fantasy anthologies.

She is also Publisher/Executive Editor of Blogcritics, (blogcritics.org) an Internet magazine of pop culture, politics and more, for which she has also contributed nearly 1,000 essays, reviews, and interviews over the past decade.

Always a pop-culture and sci-fi geek, Barbara was raised on a steady diet of TV (and TV dinners), but she always found her way to the tragic antiheroes and misunderstood champions, whether on TV, in the movies or in literature. (In other words, Spock, not Kirk; Han Solo, not Luke Skywalker!) It was inevitable that she would have to someday create one of her own.

She is an accomplished speaker, an annual favorite at MENSA's HalloWEEM convention, where she has spoken to standing room crowds on subjects as diverse as "The Byronic Hero in Pop Culture," "The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes," "The Hidden History of Science Fiction," and "Our Passion for Disaster (Movies)."

She's a professional member of both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the Horror Writers Association (HWA).

A life-long resident of the Chicago area, she lives with her husband Phil not far from the beautiful Lake Michigan coast of Chicago's North Shore that serves as the modern-day setting for 'The Apothecary's Curse'. She is the proud mother of Shoshanna (Mike) and Adam, and the loving savta of Ari.