title: Bright Books: Shadow's Nighttime Adventure
author:  Megan Roth 
description: Emiri Hayashi was born in Osaka, Japan. She graduated from Sophia University (Tokyo) in 1996 with a degree in FrenchLiterature. After working for a publishing house, she moved to France in 1999 and continued her studies in graphic design atLISAA of Paris. This is where she realized her passion to become a childrens illustrator. She has since illustrated numerous childrens books and press. She lives and works in Paris.
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  AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Caitlín R. Kiernan** is the author of nine novels, including _Silk,
  Threshold, Low Red Moon, Murder of Angels, Daughter of Hounds,_ and _The Red
  Tree_. Her award-winning short fiction has been collected in six volumes,
  including _Tales of Pain and Wonder; To Charles Fort, With Love; Alabaster;_
  and, most recently, _A Is for Alien_. She has also published two volumes of
  erotica, _Frog Toes and Tentacles_ and _Tales from the Woeful Platypus_.
  Trained as a vertebrate paleontologist, she currently lives in Providence,
  Rhode Island.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [www.caitlinrkiernan.com](http://www.caitlinrkiernan.com)  
  
  
  [greygirlbeast.livejournal.com](http://greygirlbeast.livejournal.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  EDITOR’S POSTSCRIPT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Excerpt from _A Long Way To Morning_ (Sarah Crowe; HarperCollins, 1994):
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Andrea lay very still, staring up at the ceiling, what she could see of it by
  the flickering candlelight. She 