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About Crissy Calhoun

Crissy Calhoun

About Crissy Calhoun

Crissy Calhoun is the editor and author behind vampirenames.us, and a lifelong student of vampire lore.

A career built on words

Crissy is an editor with more than 20 years of experience. She is now in her eighth year as a freelancer, providing everything from substantive editing to proofreading for a diverse array of publishers and writers. She prides herself on helping authors realize their visions in their own voices, the same care she brings to every name guide on this site.

Prior to launching her freelance editorial career, Crissy worked at ECW Press, developing, editing, and managing a list of more than fifty titles per year distributed worldwide.

A dozen books on pop culture

As an author, Crissy has written a dozen nonfiction titles on pop culture, both as Crissy Calhoun and, together with co-author Jen Knoch, as Liv Spencer.

Her Love You to Death series (ECW Press) is a set of unofficial episode-by-episode companions to The Vampire Diaries, digging into the show’s supernatural mythology, history, and pop-culture references. She also wrote Spotted: Your One and Only Unofficial Guide to Gossip Girl, and, as Liv Spencer, co-authored books on Taylor Swift, Pretty Little Liars, and the Mortal Instruments series. For years she wrote a weekly column for Vampire-Diaries.net, one of the show’s premier fan sites.

Why a vampire name site?

After a career spent shaping other people’s stories, and writing her own guides to the world’s most famous vampires, Crissy built vampirenames.us to give storytellers, gamers, and tabletop players what she always wanted herself: names with real meaning behind them, drawn from genuine folklore rather than thin air.

She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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