I read an early Anita Blake short story and liked it. I also read a short story set in her “Vampire Humper” period and...didn’t like it.
here is my problem with Laurell’s books, summed up by a character who was supposed to be evil,but he was right on “That’s your problem Anita, you make women out of all of your men.”
I recently got into Patricia Briggs and Carrie Vaughn, but they were more into werewolves. Kim Harrison is also a good one. Patricia Briggs did a short story called “Alpha and Omega” to start her new series and I liked it. Gotta warn anyone thinking of reading her books that there is a really brutal scene where this one character gets raped beat so bad her arm is refered to as “like a tube of toothpaste with marbles inside it”. It was very hard to read.