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* AuthorAppeal: Annette seems to have a thing for cats, poets (Zoë in ''The Silver Kiss'', Aiden from ''Blood and Chocolate'') and painters (Anne from ''The Silver Kiss'', Vivian from ''Blood and Chocolate''). [[MeaningfulName And Vivian means "lively" and Zoë means "(eternal) life", in what might be a lampshade hanging.]]
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* AuthorAppeal: Annette seems to have a thing for cats, poets (Zoë in ''The Silver Kiss'', Aiden from ''Blood and Chocolate'') and painters {{painters}} (Anne from ''The Silver Kiss'', Vivian from ''Blood and Chocolate''). [[MeaningfulName And Vivian means "lively" and Zoë means "(eternal) life", in what might be a lampshade hanging.]]
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* "Kissing Dead Boys" from ''The Restless Dead'' (2007)
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* TwoHitWonder: She's mostly remembered for writing ''The Silver Kiss'' and ''Blood and Chocolate'' in the 1990s, which were acclaimed bestsellers and retain fanbases to this day (the latter was enough of a hit that it got [[TheFilmOfTheBook made into a movie]], though it was an extremely loose adaptation and wasn't well-received). Klause has had four novels published, but the other two are generally forgotten. Klause hasn't released any new works since 2009 and those were two short stories involving characters from ''The Silver Kiss'' included in the novel's 2009 reissue.
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Annette Curtis Klause (born 20th June 1953) is an English-American author. She was born in Bristol, England and was initially raised in the UK before moving to Maryland, United States, where she resides to this day with her husband. She writes young adult fiction, including science fiction and ParanormalRomance. Her best known novels are ''The Silver Kiss'' (her debut novel) and ''Blood and Chocolate'', both of which won or were nominated for several awards. ''Blood and Chocolate'' was adaptated into [[Film/BloodAndChocolate2007 a film]], although it [[InNameOnly deviated heavily]] from the source material and Klause herself had minimal involvement. Klause also works as a librarian for Montgomery County Public Libraries.
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Annette Curtis Klause (born 20th June 1953) is an English-American author. She was born in Bristol, England and was initially raised in the UK before moving to Maryland, United States, where she resides to this day with her husband. She writes young adult fiction, including science fiction and ParanormalRomance. Her best known novels are ''The Silver Kiss'' (her debut novel) and ''Blood and Chocolate'', both of which won or were nominated for several awards. ''Blood and Chocolate'' was adaptated adapted into [[Film/BloodAndChocolate2007 a film]], although it [[InNameOnly deviated heavily]] from the source material and Klause herself had minimal involvement. Klause also works as a librarian for Montgomery County Public Libraries.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Klause has drawn upon her own experience of moving from the UK to the US as a teenager for some of her novels; it's especially noticeable in ''The Silver Kiss'', where Zoë struggles to come to terms with her best friend moving away (and to a more extreme extent, her mother's impending death), and ''Blood and Chocolate'', where Vivian has been forced to move to a new town after her old home was burned down.
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** "The Summer of Love" (2009)
** "The Christmas Cat" (2009)
** "The Christmas Cat" (2009)
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* ''BirdsOfAFeather'': In ''Alien Secrets'', Puck and Hush bond over them both being unaccompanied minors on a spaceship and both having screwed up in a way that risks shame from their families; Puck has been expelled from boarding school while Hush has lost an artifact sacred to his people.
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* ''BirdsOfAFeather'': BirdsOfAFeather: In ''Alien Secrets'', Puck and Hush bond over them both being unaccompanied minors on a spaceship and both having screwed up in a way that risks shame from their families; Puck has been expelled from boarding school while Hush has lost an artifact sacred to his people.
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* AuthorAppeal: Annette seems to have a thing for cats, poets (Zoë in ''The Silver Kiss'', Aiden from ''Blood and Chocolate'') and painters (Anne from ''The Silver Kiss'', Vivian from ''Blood and Chocolate''). [[MeaningfulName And Vivian means "lively" and Zoë means "(eternal) life", in what might be a lampshade hanging.]]
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** ''The Silver Kiss'' has human girl Zoe falling in love with vampire boy (well, he ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld looks]]'' like a teenage boy) Simon. [[spoiler: They ultimately [[LoveCannotOvercome don't stay together]]; Zoe cannot stomach being a vampire (which is depicted as a [[WhoWantsToLiveForever rather melancholy existence]]) and Simon decides to commit SuicideBySunlight to finally be at peace. Although saddened, they're both accepting of this decision and ready to move forward]].
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** ''The Silver Kiss'' has human girl Zoe Zoë falling in love with vampire boy (well, he ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld looks]]'' like a teenage boy) Simon. [[spoiler: They ultimately [[LoveCannotOvercome don't stay together]]; Zoe Zoë cannot stomach being a vampire (which is depicted as a [[WhoWantsToLiveForever rather melancholy existence]]) and Simon decides to commit SuicideBySunlight to finally be at peace. Although saddened, they're both accepting of this decision and ready to move forward]].
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Although they do have idealistic elements and tend to have {{Bittersweet Ending}}s as opposed to straight-up {{Downer Ending}}s, Klause's books tend to be a bit more tragic and cynical, especially compared to many other supernatural romance books aimed at teens. Her stories often deconstruct things like being a supernatural creature and/or humans romancing such creatures: in ''The Silver Kiss'' [[spoiler:Zoe and Simon don't get to stay together because Zoe realizes [[LoveCannotOvercome how much being a vampire sucks]], and Simon decides to commit suicide to [[DiedHappilyEverAfter finally be at peace]] after centuries of torment]]; in ''Blood and Chocolate'' [[spoiler:Aiden brutally rejects Vivian when she reveals she's a werewolf and she realizes that their relationship would never have worked out, especially as they were both [[LovingAShadow more in love with the idea]] of each other than who they actually are]].
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Although they do have idealistic elements and tend to have {{Bittersweet Ending}}s as opposed to straight-up {{Downer Ending}}s, Klause's books tend to be a bit more tragic and cynical, especially compared to many other supernatural romance books aimed at teens. Her stories often deconstruct things like being a supernatural creature and/or humans romancing such creatures: in ''The Silver Kiss'' [[spoiler:Zoe [[spoiler:Zoë and Simon don't get to stay together because Zoe Zoë realizes [[LoveCannotOvercome how much being a vampire sucks]], and Simon decides to commit suicide to [[DiedHappilyEverAfter finally be at peace]] after centuries of torment]]; in ''Blood and Chocolate'' [[spoiler:Aiden brutally rejects Vivian when she reveals she's a werewolf and she realizes that their relationship would never have worked out, especially as they were both [[LovingAShadow more in love with the idea]] of each other than who they actually are]].
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Annette Curtis Klause (born 20th June 1953) is an English-American author. She was born in Bristol, England and was initially raised in the UK before moving to Maryland, United States, where she resides to this day with her husband. She writes young adult fiction, including science fiction and ParanormalRomance. Her best known novels are ''The Silver Kiss'' (her debut novel) and ''Blood and Chocolate'', both of which won or were nominated for several awards. ''Blood and Chocolate'' was adaptated into [[Film/BloodAndChocolate2007 a film]], although it [[InNameOnly deviated heavily]] from the source material and Klause herself had minimal involvement. Klause also works as a librarian for Montgomery County Public Libraries.
!!Works with their own pages:
* ''Literature/TheSilverKiss'' (1990)
* ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' (1997)
!!Other works:
* ''Alien Secrets'' (1993)
* ''Freaks: Alive on the Inside!'' (2006)
!!Tropes found in or associated with Klause's works include:
* ''BirdsOfAFeather'': In ''Alien Secrets'', Puck and Hush bond over them both being unaccompanied minors on a spaceship and both having screwed up in a way that risks shame from their families; Puck has been expelled from boarding school while Hush has lost an artifact sacred to his people.
* BoyMeetsGhoul:
** ''Freaks: Alive on the Inside!'' features a human boy falling in love with a mummy girl.
** ''The Silver Kiss'' provides a gender-flipped example; it has a human girl falling in love with a RomanticVampireBoy.
* InterspeciesRomance: A recurring theme in her books, though it [[DeconstructedTrope doesn't always]] [[LoveHurts end well]].
** ''The Silver Kiss'' has human girl Zoe falling in love with vampire boy (well, he ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld looks]]'' like a teenage boy) Simon. [[spoiler: They ultimately [[LoveCannotOvercome don't stay together]]; Zoe cannot stomach being a vampire (which is depicted as a [[WhoWantsToLiveForever rather melancholy existence]]) and Simon decides to commit SuicideBySunlight to finally be at peace. Although saddened, they're both accepting of this decision and ready to move forward]].
** ''Blood and Chocolate'' revolves around a werewolf girl having a romance with a human boy, although he initially doesn't know she's a werewolf. Things go downhill [[NonHumanLoverReveal when he does find out]].
* HistoricalFantasy: ''Freaks'' is a fantasy romance set in 1899.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The protagonist of ''Alien Secrets'' is named Robin Goodfellow, but she usually goes by her nickname of Puck.
* SeductiveMummy: ''Freaks'' centers on a living mummy called Tauseret, who has a romance with the protagonist Abel.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Although they do have idealistic elements and tend to have {{Bittersweet Ending}}s as opposed to straight-up {{Downer Ending}}s, Klause's books tend to be a bit more tragic and cynical, especially compared to many other supernatural romance books aimed at teens. Her stories often deconstruct things like being a supernatural creature and/or humans romancing such creatures: in ''The Silver Kiss'' [[spoiler:Zoe and Simon don't get to stay together because Zoe realizes [[LoveCannotOvercome how much being a vampire sucks]], and Simon decides to commit suicide to [[DiedHappilyEverAfter finally be at peace]] after centuries of torment]]; in ''Blood and Chocolate'' [[spoiler:Aiden brutally rejects Vivian when she reveals she's a werewolf and she realizes that their relationship would never have worked out, especially as they were both [[LovingAShadow more in love with the idea]] of each other than who they actually are]].
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!!Works with their own pages:
* ''Literature/TheSilverKiss'' (1990)
* ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' (1997)
!!Other works:
* ''Alien Secrets'' (1993)
* ''Freaks: Alive on the Inside!'' (2006)
!!Tropes found in or associated with Klause's works include:
* ''BirdsOfAFeather'': In ''Alien Secrets'', Puck and Hush bond over them both being unaccompanied minors on a spaceship and both having screwed up in a way that risks shame from their families; Puck has been expelled from boarding school while Hush has lost an artifact sacred to his people.
* BoyMeetsGhoul:
** ''Freaks: Alive on the Inside!'' features a human boy falling in love with a mummy girl.
** ''The Silver Kiss'' provides a gender-flipped example; it has a human girl falling in love with a RomanticVampireBoy.
* InterspeciesRomance: A recurring theme in her books, though it [[DeconstructedTrope doesn't always]] [[LoveHurts end well]].
** ''The Silver Kiss'' has human girl Zoe falling in love with vampire boy (well, he ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld looks]]'' like a teenage boy) Simon. [[spoiler: They ultimately [[LoveCannotOvercome don't stay together]]; Zoe cannot stomach being a vampire (which is depicted as a [[WhoWantsToLiveForever rather melancholy existence]]) and Simon decides to commit SuicideBySunlight to finally be at peace. Although saddened, they're both accepting of this decision and ready to move forward]].
** ''Blood and Chocolate'' revolves around a werewolf girl having a romance with a human boy, although he initially doesn't know she's a werewolf. Things go downhill [[NonHumanLoverReveal when he does find out]].
* HistoricalFantasy: ''Freaks'' is a fantasy romance set in 1899.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The protagonist of ''Alien Secrets'' is named Robin Goodfellow, but she usually goes by her nickname of Puck.
* SeductiveMummy: ''Freaks'' centers on a living mummy called Tauseret, who has a romance with the protagonist Abel.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Although they do have idealistic elements and tend to have {{Bittersweet Ending}}s as opposed to straight-up {{Downer Ending}}s, Klause's books tend to be a bit more tragic and cynical, especially compared to many other supernatural romance books aimed at teens. Her stories often deconstruct things like being a supernatural creature and/or humans romancing such creatures: in ''The Silver Kiss'' [[spoiler:Zoe and Simon don't get to stay together because Zoe realizes [[LoveCannotOvercome how much being a vampire sucks]], and Simon decides to commit suicide to [[DiedHappilyEverAfter finally be at peace]] after centuries of torment]]; in ''Blood and Chocolate'' [[spoiler:Aiden brutally rejects Vivian when she reveals she's a werewolf and she realizes that their relationship would never have worked out, especially as they were both [[LovingAShadow more in love with the idea]] of each other than who they actually are]].
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