Dana Marie Bell
Dana Marie Bell
Biography
Dana Marie Bell wrote her first short story when she was thirteen years old. She attended the High School for Creative and Performing Arts for creative writing, where freedom of expression was the order of the day. When her parents moved out of the city and placed her in a Catholic high school for her senior year she tried desperately to get away, but the nuns held fast, and she graduated with honors despite herself.
Dana has lived primarily in the Northeast (Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, to be precise), with a brief stint on the US Virgin Island of St. Croix. She lives with her soul-mate and husband Dusty, their two maniacal children, an evil ice-cream stealing cat and a bull terrier that thinks it’s a Pekinese. She has been heard to describe herself as a "lapsed brunette".
Dana suffers from osteoarthritis and can frequently be seen walking with a cane or zipping around in her little red scooter. Her condition was the inspiration for Belle's hip injury in Steel Beauty.
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Books
Fiction
e-Books
True Destiny Series
- Very Much Alive, part of the True Destiny Series - 2009 (Samhain Publishing)
- Eye of the Beholder, part of the True Destiny Series - 2010 (Samhain Publishing)
Heart's Desire Series
- Shadow of the Wolf, part of the Heart's Desire Series - 2009 (Liquid Silver Books)
Halle Shifters Series
- Bear Necessities, part of the Halle Shifters Series - 2010 (Samhain Publishing}
The Gray Court Series
- Dare to Believe, part of the The Gray Court Series - 2009 (Samhain Publishing)
Print Books
The Gray Court Series
- Dare to Believe, part of the (The Gray Court Series) - 2010 (Samhain Publishing)
Novellas
e-Books
Halle Puma Series
- The Wallflower - 2008 (Samhain Publishing)
- Sweet Dreams - 2008 (Samhain Publishing)
- Cat of a Different Color - 2008 (Samhain Publishing)
- Steel Beauty - 2009 (Samhain Publishing)
- Only In My Dreams - 2009 (Samhain Publishing)
Print Books
Halle Puma Series
- The Wallflower in Hunting Love Anthology - 2008 (Samhain Publishing)
- The Wallflower, Sweet Dreams and Cat of a Different Color in Mating Games Anthology - 2010 (Samhain Publishing)
- Steel Beauty and Only In My Dreams in Animal Attraction Anthology - 2010 (Samhain Publishing)
Series/Related Titles
- Halle Pumas Series
- Halle Shifters Series
- The Gray Court Series
- Heart's Desire Series
- True Destiny Series
Awards/Honors
- The Wallflower was a finalist in the Passionate Plume awards of 2008.