Christopher Rice is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award and is the Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of ***A Density of Souls***; ***Bone Music***, ***Blood Echo***, and ***Blood Victory*** in the *Burning Girl* series; and Bram Stoker Award finalists ***The Heavens Rise*** and ***The Vines***. An executive producer for television, he collaborated with his mother Anne Rice on the novel ***Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra*** and ***Ramses The Damned: The Reign of Osiris***. Together with his best friend and producing partner, New York Times bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn , Christopher runs the production company **Dinner Partners**. Among other projects, they produce the podcast and video network TDPS, which can be found at www.TheDinnerPartyShow.com . He lives in West Hollywood, California, and writes tales of romance between men under the pseudonym **C. Travis Rice**. **photo**: Cathryn Farnsworth ( Source )