Traveling with the Dead - Softcover

At first glance, this title could appear to describe some of those family vacations everybody used to take, with the all-American family loaded up in the station wagon, Dad driving hours along the interstate. First there'd be songs, then desperate games, then bickering, then morose silence...
        But I digress. Reading Hambly's chilling account of a desperate journey into exotic lands beats my family's old yellow trip logs all hollow. But in real life, wouldn't any rational person choose seven hours in the back of an un-air-conditioned Pontiac station wagon over a fight to the death against a clan of vampires?

--Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor

At various times in her life, Barbara Hambly has been a high-school teacher, a model, a waitress, a technical editor, a professional graduate student, an all-night clerk at a liquor store, and a karate instructor. Born in San Diego, she grew up in southern California, with the exception of one high-school semester spent in New South Wales, Australia. Her interest in fantasy began with reading THE WIZARD OF OZ at an early age and has continued ever since.

She attended the University of California, Riverside, specializing in medieval history. In connection with this, she spent a year at the University of Bordeaux in the south of France and worked as a teaching and research assistant at UC Riverside, eventually earning a Master's Degree in the subject. At the universtiy, she also became involved in karate, making Black Belt in 1978 and competing in several national-level tournaments. She now lives in Los Angeles, California.