Between 1985 and 2009, Tilton published more than 70 short stories in a number of publications including magazines such as ''
Asimov's Science Fiction, Dragon, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Amazing Stories,
Weird Tales,
Realms of Fantasy, Paradox, and Interzone.
Her stories also appeared in anthologies such as The Best of Weird Tales
, The Year's Best Science Fiction, Women of Darkness
, Borderlands II
, and Dead End: City Limits: An Anthology of Urban Fear'' along with multiple editions of the
Sword and Sorceress series. Tilton has also written media-related novels in the
Babylon 5 and
Deep Space Nine universes with her novel
Betrayal spending 4 weeks on the
USA Today best sellers list. In addition, Tilton is known as an author of "innovative contemporary vampire fiction." Her novel
Darkspawn, about a vampire prince who awakens to find his world overrun with barbarians, mixes a vampire tale with the
sword and sorcery genre and was called "an innovative tale of horror" by Grahan Wilson and Paul Di Filippo in
Realms of Fantasy.
Written in Venom would be named to the preliminary ballot for the 2002
Nebula Award for Best Novel. Tilton was a short fiction reviewer for the website
Locus Online from March 2010 till January 2016. Previously, she reviewed short fiction for
The Internet Review of Science Fiction. ==Awards==