BJ Cunningham

BJ Cunningham was born and raised in Downeast Maine. After her son was born, she returned to school and earned a B.S. in Administration of Justice and took a job at a local zoo. As the years passed, she moved up to the position of Assistant Director and returned to her love of writing in her spare time. Her experience with countless species of animals quickly became her inspiration for the many shifters that live between the covers of her urban fantasy novels.

She has two series at the moment. The Bjorn Clan series was her first and is still ongoing. The second, The Creation Inc Series, is written with a co-author and currently has six novels. She is now working on the seventh of the eight book series and has just finished the first draft of a story that will be the first novel in a CIS spin-off.

Series:

The Bjorn Clan Series

-Cursed

-Flesh & Blood

Creation Inc Series (with Misty Clark)

-Black on Black: The Mating

-Kismet

-Conviction

-Alpha Pride

-Omen

-Nemesis

-Redemption (Coming in 2018)

More info about the books and the authors can be found here: http://creationincnovels.com/

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Why write about shifters? Why not vampires or another supernatural things?

Well, it’s because no matter how many novels or authors I read, no matter how good they were or how much I loved the story, I found one thing lacking. What? That they had none of their animal’s characteristics when in human form and that made no sense to me, I worked at a zoo/rehab for a decade and I love the challenge of bringing the quirks that I’ve witnessed with different species to the story in a way that rings true. For example, were I to write about a racoon shifter, I would need to have that character be OCD about touching things repeatedly before they could do anything with it. Why? Because every racoon that I have had the pleasure of raising could not help but show this behavior. I wish my answer was more mystical or artsy, but it is what it is.