title: Glynnis Talken Campbell
text: # Glynnis Talken Campbell
  
  Glynnis Talken Campbell (born Glynnis Gail Talken on June 12, 1957, in Chico, California) is an American historical romance author, composer, musician and voice actress, and is married to bass guitarist Richard Campbell. Glynnis Campbell graduated from California State University, Chico with a degree in Vocal Music Performance. Her first novel, My Champion, was nominated for a Romance Writers of America's RITA award for Best First Book and Best Long Historical Romance in 2001. In 2009, her novel Danger's Kiss, received the "Book Buyers Best Award for Historical Romance." She has also written under the pen names Sarah McKerrigan and Kira Morgan.
  
  ## Career
  
  After college, Glynnis Talken joined the Los Angeles-based all-girl rock band The Pinups, signed to CBS records. After a short time, she left the band, but quickly found work doing voice-overs while composing scores with her husband for Coronet Films. She was given the role of Julie Winters in an MTV animated series based on a graphic novel called The Maxx. Campbell has said the staff of computer games company Blizzard Entertainment saw this performance and requested her services to add voice-overs for a collection of characters from Diablo and StarCraft. Her moody work with the voiceover for Sarah Kerrigan was instrumental in setting the game's atmosphere and for developing the plot. A Womengamers.com online review of computer game characters gave the voice an 8.4/10 rating and described the character as "one of the best-sounding women ever to come out of a computer game".
  
  Besides voice acting, Campbell is a historical romance novel writer and has been nominated for a number of literature awards. Originally published by Berkley Books in 2000 with the novels, My Champion, My Warrior, and My Hero, in 2005 she began writing for Warner Books under a pseudonym, Sarah McKerrigan, in homage to the character she voiced in StarCraft. Under that name, she published Lady Danger in April 2006, Captive Heart in October 2006, Knight's Prize in May 2007, and Danger's Kiss in May 2008.
  
  In 2010, Campbell started writing under a new pseudonym, Kira Morgan, for Hachette Book Group USA. Her romance novel, Captured By Desire, is set in Mary, Queen of Scots-era Scotland, and was released August 2010, followed by Seduced by Destiny in March 2011.
  
  Beginning in 2012, she returned to writing under her real name of Glynnis Campbell, releasing her first self-published eBook, a Scottish historical romance novel Passion's Exile, followed by The Shipwreck, The Outcast, Native Gold, Native Wolf, Native Hawk, The Handfasting, The Reiver, The Outcast, Desire's Ransom, MacKenzie's Lass, The Storming, A Yuletide Kiss, A Rivenloch Christmas, The Stowaway, and Bride of Fire. She became a USA Today bestselling author with her book in the collection Romance to the Rescue.
  
  ## Voiceover parts
  
  Characters recorded by Campbell for Knowledge Adventure/Blizzard Entertainment games include:
  
  * The Rogue from Diablo
  * Gillian the Barmaid from Diablo
  * Kashya from Diablo II
  * Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft, StarCraft: Brood War
  * Dryad from WarCraft 3
  * Various from JumpStart 1st Grade
  
  Campbell also voiced Julie Winters in the animated television adaptation of The Maxx. She worked extensively on a collection of audiobooks for Time Warner including those in the Star Wars Tales of the Jedi and Dark Empire series.
  
  