Eden Royce is descended from women who practiced root, a type of conjure magic in her native Charleston, South Carolina. She now lives in Kent, The Garden of England, and writes Gothic horror and dark fantasy stories loosely based on her childhood.  A lover of mystery and magic, Eden's stories teeter on the edge of realism. Her major writing influences are Daphne DuMaurier, Terri Windling, Edgar Allan Poe. An avid gamer, she also lends her voice to several podcasts around the net. Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} She is also the horror submissions editor for Mocha Memoirs Press where she conceived and edited The Grotesquerie, an anthology of twenty-one horror short stories written by women. She also writes a regular feature for Graveyard Shift Sisters, a site dedicated to purging the black female horror fan from the margins, where she interviews black female authors and reviews their latest work. As a woman from the American South, Eden has been a storyteller all her life. She focuses on creating tales with strong female characters and stories that focus on the macabre and the grotesque. You can also find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eden-Royce-The-Dark-Geisha/175439055801467 and on Twitter: @edenroyce