I'm Tananarive Due, and I won a 2002 American Book Award for my novel The Living Blood. I am best known as an author of supernatural suspense, but I also write mysteries and histories.

My newest novel, Blood Colony, will be published in June of 2008, the third in my African Immortals series that began with My Soul to Keep (1997) and The Living Blood (2001).

Currently, I am co-authoring a mystery series with my husband, Steven Barnes, in partnership with actor Blair Underwood. Our first novel was Casanegra, an Essence bestseller due out soon in paperback. (Publishers Weekly called it "seamlessly entertaining.") The next in the series, In the Night of the Heat, will be published in the fall of 2008.