Editing Cate Tiernan (section)

==Biography==
Charbonnet was born in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] in 1961.<ref name="bio">Bio: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100710012026/http://catetiernan.org/bio/ CateTiernan.org]}} Retrieved 2010-06-30.</ref> She began her college education at [[New York University]] studying writing and Russian language and literature, then transferred to [[Loyola University New Orleans|Loyola University]] in New Orleans, where she graduated with a degree in Russian.  She began her career as an assistant to the head of the Juvenile Audio and Video department at [[Random House]] in [[New York City]], where she wrote her first children's books.<ref name = "bio"/> She also participated in the editing of  ''[[The Secret Circle]]'' by [[L. J. Smith (author)|L.J. Smith]] during this period.<ref name=cate>"About Cate Tiernan." [http://firefairy.eve7k.com/author/about_cate.php FireFairy.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417050902/http://firefairy.eve7k.com/author/about_cate.php |date=April 17, 2009 }} Retrieved 2010-07-01.</ref>

After eight years in New York, Charbonnet and her husband moved back to New Orleans, where they began a family (two children) and she embarked on her ''Sweep'' series.  While not a Wiccan herself, she asserts that she "can really relate to Wicca", and appreciates its "woman-centeredness and its essentially female identity."<ref name="cate"/>

After five years in New Orleans, Charbonnet moved to [[Durham, North Carolina]], where she now lives with her husband Paul, two children, two stepsons, a poodle, and "an unfortunate number of cats."<ref>"About Me." [http://gabriellecharbonnet.com/about/ GabrielleCharbonnet.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405003733/http://gabriellecharbonnet.com/about/ |date=April 5, 2009 }} Retrieved 2010-07-01.</ref>

Charbonnet has written about 75 books under her own name, her pseudonym Cate Tiernan, and miscellaneous other pen names as a [[ghost writer]].<ref>"About My Work." [http://gabriellecharbonnet.com/about-my-work/ GabrielleCharbonnet.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605002810/http://gabriellecharbonnet.com/about-my-work/ |date=June 5, 2009 }} Retrieved 2010-07-01</ref>