Hi everyone, Karina Kantas here. Well, my main influence would be music, in particular, rock music. There's something about the lyrics, rhythm, vocals that inspires me to write. It doesn't have to be one of my urban thrillers, I could be writing a comedy or a romance and I'll still be listening to rock music. It was S.E.Hinton's book The Outsiders, that made me want to become an author. I wanted to read more rebel type novels, but they are hard to find. I want to change that. Huntress, my third urban thriller, was just published through MMP and I'm currently looking for an agent for Road Rage, my completed urban thriller. I'm from the UK and but now reside in Greece.

Horror story, Crossed, won first prize in an international speculative short story contest