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She chose work that allowed her time to write;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.barbarahambly.com/hambio.htm |title=Biography of Barbara Hambly |publisher=Barbarahambly.com |date=1999-09-17 |access-date=2013-02-07}}</ref> all of her novels contain a biography paragraph with a litany of jobs: high school [[teacher]], [[Model (person)|model]], waitress, technical editor, all-night liquor store clerk, and Shotokan [[karate]] instructor. Her first published novel was ''[[The Time of the Dark]]'' (1982).
 
Hambly served as President of the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]] from 1994 to 1996. Her works have been nominated for many awards in the [[fantasy]] and [[horror fiction]] categories, winning a [[Locus Award]] for Best Horror Novel ''[[Those Who Hunt The Night|Those Who Hunt the Night]]'' (1989) (released in the UK as ''Immortal Blood'') and the [[Lord Ruthven Award]] for fiction for its sequel, ''[[Traveling with the Dead]]'' (1996).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.barbarahambly.com/hambooks.htm |title=Books and awards |publisher=Barbarahambly.com |date= |access-date=2013-02-07}}</ref>
 
== Marriage and personal life ==
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===Standalone works===
* ''Bride of the Rat God'' (1994; Locus Award nominee, 1995)and (sequel) ''Castle of Horror'' (April 2016, Amazon/Kindle)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://barbara-hambly.livejournal.com/169546.html|title=(no title)|publisher=|access-date=21 January 2018}}</ref>
* ''Magic Time'' (2002) (with Marc Zicree. The first of a trilogy. The other two volumes are by other authors: ''Angelfire'' by Marc Scott Zicree and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, and ''Ghostlands'' by Marc Scott Zicree and Robert Charles Wilson.)
* ''Renfield: Slave of Dracula'' (2006)