Games Creatures Play
by Toni L. P. Kelner, Charlaine Harris

TALES OF UNUSUAL ATHLETICS BY JAN BURKE * DANA CAMERON * ADAM-TROY CASTRO * BRENDAN DuBOIS * CHARLAINE HARRIS * TONI L. P. KELNER * CAITLIN KITTREDGE * WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER * ELLEN KUSHNER * MERCEDES LACKEY * JOE R. LANSDALE * LAURA LIPPMAN * SEANAN McGUIRE * BRANDON SANDERSON * SCOTT SIGLER

Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this collection of the most peculiar plays ever made—including a story featuring Sookie Stackhouse and Manfred Bernardo…

Sports fans live and die by their teams’ successes and failures—though not literally. But these fifteen authors have written spirited—in more ways than one—tales of killer competitions that would make even the most die-hard players ask to be benched.

Other Books by Toni L. P. Kelner

Dead But Not Forgotten
Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse

Games Creatures Play

An Apple for the Creature

Blast from the Past
A Where Are They Now? Mystery #3

Crimes by Moonlight
Mysteries from the Dark Side

Who Killed the Pinup Queen?
A "Where Are They Now?" Mystery #2

Curse of the Kissing Cousins
A "Where Are They Now?" Mystery #2

Wed And Buried

Toni L. P. Kelner's Bio

Fact Sheet

Home Town
Born in Pensacola, FL
Grew up in Gulf Breeze, FL
& Charlotte, NC
Currently living in Malden, MA

Day Job
Former technical writer
Currently full time writer

Married
To Stephen Paul Kelner, Jr.

Children
Two daughters: Maggie and Valerie

Organizations
American Crime Writers League
Femmes Fatales
Mystery Writers of America
Sisters in Crime

Awards

Anthony Award Nominee for Best Short Story for "How Stella Got Her Grave Back"

Agatha Award Winner and Anthony Award Nominee for Best Short Story for "Sleeping With the Plush"

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Career Achievement Award Winner for Mystery Series in 2002

Anthony and Macavity Award Nominee for Best Short Story for "Bible Belt"

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Career Achievement Award Nominee for Mystery Series in 2001

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee for Death of a Damn Yankee

Agatha Award Nominee for Best Short Story for "The Death of Erik the Redneck"