Meet the authors who write the books you love! The listings below will help you get to know the writers behind the story.
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Nicolette Andrews
Nicolette Andrews born and raised in San Diego CA. She currently resides with her husband, two daughters a dog and a cat. She enjoys reading a good fantasy novel with heavy doses of magic and intrigue. When she's not reading or writing, she likes to take advantage of the San Diego sunshine by walking and hiking. Or on occasion trying her hand at gardening.
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Charlotte Henley Babb
Charlotte Henley Babb writes comic fantasy for women of a certain age. Where are the fairy tales for those of us who are survivors of marriage, bankruptcy, parenthood and other passges of life? Charlotte writes them.
Charlotte began writing when she could hold a piece of chalk and scribble her name–although she sometimes mistook “Chocolate” for “Charlotte” on the sign at the drug store ice cream counter.
When her third-grade teacher allowed her access to the fiction room at the school library, Charlotte discovered Louisa Alcott and Robert Heinlein, an odd marriage of the minds. These two authors have had the most influence on her desire to share her point of view with the world and to explore how the world might be made better by laughter and insight to the foibles of magic and fantasy
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Elizabeth Baxter
I've been a bookworm since I was five years old. The first book I ever read was about a boy going shopping with his mum. I picked it up from my brother's bedroom floor and suddenly those strange shapes on the page made sense. I could read! Hallelujah! I was soon working my way steadily through the school library and it wasn't long before I realised that stories about dragons, elves and great big talking lions were by far the most interesting. And that was it, my obsession with fantasy fiction was born.
When I’m not writing I enjoy playing tennis (badly), playing the guitar (very badly) and watching cricket whenever I can. I’m also intent on cramming as much world travel as I can into one lifetime. Funny, but my list keeps getting longer. You can never see it all can you?
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L. Blankenship
L. Blankenship started writing animal stories as a kid and it's just gotten completely out of hand since then. Now she's out publishing her gritty fantasy and hard science fiction adventures. L grew up in New Hampshire but currently lives near Washington, DC.
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MJ Bridger
MJ Bridger had been writing stories since he was a child and had won most school writing competitions he entered. Credited with a vibrant imagination, MJ occupied his spare time in between studying with building his own fantasy world, inspired, naturally, by such authors as JRR Tolkien, Michael Moorcock and Robert Jordan, among others. In 2008 MJ took the great plunge and finally committed himself to putting his ideas to paper and started actually writing his first book, titled Monk-son of Kunlun, the first book in the Khalduni Wars series.
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Scott Bury
Scott Bury is a journalist, editor and writer living in Ottawa. His articles have been published in newspapers and magazines in Canada, the US, UK and Australia, including Macworld, the Ottawa Citizen, the Financial Post, Marketing, Canadian Printer, Applied Arts, PEM, Workplace, Advanced Manufacturing and others. He has two almost-grown children, an orange cat and a loving wife who puts up with a lot. You can read more of Scott's writing at scottstravelblog.wordpress.com, and on his website, http://www.writtenwords.ca. Follow him on Twitter @ScottTheWriter.
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Katri Cardew
I live in outback Australia with my large Dogue de Bordeaux. My focus is on magical fantasy and romance novels.
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Mike Cooley
I have been writing science fiction and fantasy stories for many years. My writing has an edge to it. I enjoy exploring the dark and surreal landscapes of the mind. The first novel in my Legend of the Crystals fantasy series is out now (Crystal Warrior), and the second book (Crystal Origin) will be out in July 2012. I also have a science fiction short story collection out called Skin Of Giants, a Twilight Parody called How To Keep Sparkly Emo Vampires Off Your Lawn, and a poetry book called End Of The World Love Songs.
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Harrison Davies
Harrison Davies (1973 - ) was born in Hartlepool in the United Kingdom. He now resides in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North of England. His passions include the written word, visual media such as indie filmmaking, and photography. He lives with his long time partner, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and African Grey Parrot. Harrison completed his second book in early 2012.
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Danika Dinsmore
Danika Dinsmore works in speculative fiction with an emphasis on juvenile and young adult literature. She currently teaches creative writing, imaginary world building, dystopian fiction, and other subgenres of speculative fiction. The first book in her children's fantasy series (Brigitta of the White Forest) was released in 2011 and the second book (The Ruins of Noe) was released in May 2012. She is working on the third novel in the series (Ondelle of Grioth) as well as a YA pop space opera (Interglactic) and a YA dystopian love story (Silk Rivers of the Moon).
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Ava Donja
Ava is an avid reader, writer, blogger, and gamer. She lives in Southern California and would love the beach if it wasn’t for all that sand. Mind, Body, and Spirit is her first fantasy romance ebook.
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Dakota Douglas
I’m a retired newspaper reporter from the North East of England, following my childhood dream of being a novelist. As a kid I read books under the bedclothes by torchlight. Now I dive under the bedclothes, torch in hand, to scribble down conversations between my nutty book characters in case I forget them in the morning. I’ve written stories since I was about eight years old. I wrote them on a toy typewriter and my dad did the illustrations. All sadly lost down the decades. I drafted my first novel about 10 years ago but had to give it up because of pains in my hands and wrists…Repetitive Strain Injury. I retired last year and have just published my first novel, a children’s fantasy called ANTics, based on a dream about ants.
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Will English
Will English was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1985. He began his love affair with all things fantasy in 1997 when he first picked up a little series called "Lord of The Rings." Incidentally, that was also the year he started writing fiction. His first collection of short stories, "Walking With Summer Dreams," was first self-published as an e-book on both lulu.com and the Kindle. He currently lives in Georgia and is hard at work on his first proper novel.
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Roger Eschbacher
Roger Eschbacher is a professional television animation writer who's worked for Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network. He's also written two children's picture books, "Road Trip", and "Nonsense! He Yelled," both for Dial Books. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he now lives in California with his family and a crazy dog named Lizzy.
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Alesha Escobar
Alesha Escobar writes fantasy and urban fantasy to support her chocolate habit. She earned a B.A. in English and a Master's in Education, and has enjoyed both writing and teaching it.
She is the author of "The Tower's Alchemist," and "Dark Rift," books #1 and #2 of The Gray Tower Trilogy.
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Tracy Falbe
I was born in Michigan in 1972 and grew up in Mount Pleasant. It's called the "Mountain Town" but there is no mountain and it's debatable about whether it's pleasant. They say it's a party town and based on extensive research as a young adult I can concur.
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M. Todd Gallowglas
M. Todd Gallowglas has been writing stories of one form or another since received his very first writing assignment in third grade. He has been a professional storyteller at Renaissance Faires for twenty years. In 2009, he received his Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He is a regular fiction contributor for the Call of Chthulu card game from Fantasy Flight Games Inc, and his novel First Chosen is a bestseller on Amazon in the US and UK.
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Karin Rita Gastreich
Karin Rita Gastreich was born near Kansas City, Missouri. After living and working for ten years as a tropical ecologist in Costa Rica, she recently returned to her home town and is now a Professor of Biology at Avila University. Karin’s publications include the epic fantasy novel EOLYN, as well as short stories in Zahir, Adventures for the Average Woman, 69 Flavors of Paranoia, and A Visitor to Sandahl. She is a recipient of the Spring 2011 Andrews Forest Writer’s Residency. Visit her blog Heroines of Fantasy, co-authored with Terri-Lynne DeFino and Kim Vandervort, at http://heroinesoffantasy.blogspot.com/
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Katharina Gerlach
What would you like to know about me? Shall I tell you about the tomboy who turned the forest around her house into a haunted grove or Little Red's riding grounds? Or about the seven-year old who decided to become a forester...and who did? Maybe, you'd be more interested in the school girl who wrote one-page stories for all her friends and relatives. I still see myself as Rainbow Girl, sliding though hollowed out tree trunks to help Mother Nature fight evil polluters. I still sing evening songs with the wood nymphs—except I've got to walk quite a bit longer these days to reach the woods. And I still make up stories for those around me. If you need to know more about me, my three kids, my husband, dog, or house, please look at my homepage.
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Marise Ghorayeb
I am an engineer by day and an author by night. My love of writing started when I was thirteen and, quite frankly, bored out of my mind. My mother and I were visiting my grandparents in Egypt during the summer holidays. To me, this meant I was cut off from English television and all my American school friends. I had already read every Nancy Drew book I'd brought with me for the trip and it seemed my last hope of finding something to do was my aunt’s dinosaur of a laptop that didn’t even run Windows 95. There were no games on it, so I opened up a word processor and started to type. That is when I found my passion for story telling as well as a new way to survive summer vacation.
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