Miri Blackwood

I always lived with one foot in the past and one in the shadows. As a child I was surrounded by the rich history of colonial Philadelphia and New Jersey and a found love for dark paranormal, I'm drawn to the places where history and the supernatural could collide.

I wrote years ago under the pen name Marianne LaCroix and gained various recognitions for my writing, earning a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) Nominee for Best Erotic Romance & Erotica (2004) for my book Descendants of Darkness. (It was one of the first ebooks taken seriously by readers and reviewers for an award by RT magazine.)

I took a writing break for several years--raising twins, three marriages, two divorces (both with some form of domestic abuse), and a fight to put an abuser in jail. I use my experiences (good and bad) to flavor my characters, giving them a depth uniquely my own.

I write from my home in Tallahassee, Florida with my loving, nerdy husband, an adorable (but naughty) dachshund, an overused Keurig to feed my coffee addiction, and the occasional unexplained creak in the walls. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I write stories I want to read.

— Miri Blackwood