What American fiction writer from Midland, Texas wrote the 5th novel in the "World of the Lupi" series?
Eileen Wilks
Blood Lines (Wilks novel)
Blood Lines by Eileen Wilks is the 5th novel in the World of the Lupi series.
 It was released on January 2, 2007.
Eileen Wilks
Eileen Wilks is an American award-winning fiction writer living in Midland, Texas.
Breakfast of Champions
"Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday," published in 1973, is the seventh novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut.
 Set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Indiana, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast."
 One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a charming but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer, and extensive land and franchise owner, whose mental illness causes him to believe that a science fiction story by the other man, Kilgore Trout, is the literal truth.
 Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane.
 As the novel opens, Trout hitchhikes toward Midland City to appear at an art convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok. Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain is an American fiction writer currently living in Dallas, Texas.
 He has won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for "Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories" (2007) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" (2012). John J. Clayton
John Jacob Clayton is an American fiction writer, teacher, and editor.
 He has published four novels including "Mitzvah Man" (Texas Tech University Press), and "Kuperman’s Fire" (Permanent Press), as well as five collections of short fiction including "Minyan: Ten Interwoven Stories" (Paragon House) and "Many Seconds into the Future" (Texas Tech University Press).
 He was editor for the "Heath Introduction to Fiction", a college anthology published in six editions from 1977 to 1999. Mortal Danger
Mortal Danger by Eileen Wilks is the 4th novel in the World of the Lupi series.
 It was released on November 1, 2005. Megan Staffel
Megan Staffel (born 1952, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American fiction writer and essayist.
 She is the author of two novels, "The Notebook of Lost Things" and "She Wanted Something Else", and three story collections, "A Length of Wire and Other Stories", "Lessons In Another Language" and "The Exit Coach".
 Her story collection, "Lessons in Another Language," was awarded the 2011 IPPY AWARD for Bronze Medal Winner in the Short Story and the 2011 Foreword Review's "Book of the Year Award" for Silver Medal Winner in the Short Story.
 Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Ploughshares and New England Review.
 Her essays on the craft of fiction appear in "A Kite in the Wind," edited by Andrea Barrett and Peter Turchi, and "Letters to a Fiction Writer," edited by Frederick Busch.
 She teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Paola Corso
Paola Corso (May 28, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American fiction writer, poet, and essayist.
 Corso is a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow and Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award Winner, and is the author of "Catina’s Haircut: A Novel in Stories" (2010) on Library Journal’s notable list of first novels, "Giovanna’s 86 Circles And Other Stories" (2005), a Binghamton University's John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist, a book of poems, "Death by Renaissance" (2004), and newly released poetry collections, "The Laundress Catches Her Breath" and "Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing" (2012), about Pittsburgh steelworkers and garment workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Rodney Morales
Rodney Morales is an American fiction writer, editor, literary scholar, musician, and Professor in the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of Hawaii.
 In both his creative and critical writing, he is concerned with contemporary multi-ethnic Hawaii society, particularly social relations between its residents of Native Hawaiian, Japanese, Caucasian, and Puerto Rican descent; the 1970s "Hawaiian Renaissance" movement and the disappearance of its legendary cultural icon George Helm of Protect Kaho'olawe Ohana (PKO); and the postmodern juxtaposition of popular artistic forms (the detective novel, cinema, crime fiction, rock music) with high literature.
 Shaped by genre fiction of the postwar period, his regional stories influenced that of Generation X/millennial authors such as Chris McKinney and Alexei Melnick, "urban Honolulu" novelists known for their gritty, realistic approaches to depicting crime, drugs, and lower-class life in the islands. Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic.
 For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual James Tiptree, Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards.
 Her short fiction has appeared in "Clarkesworld Magazine", the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous "Year's Best" volumes.
 Her critical work has appeared in the "International Journal of the Humanities" as well as in numerous essay collections.