I stayed up way past my bedtime to finish the first book because I absolutely had to know how it ended. That’s the cleverness of the story, and that’s what kept me turning the pages. The quests turn out to be nowhere near as superficial as they initially appeared to be and every problem that confronts the group is far more complex than it seems. The rules have been thrown away and the story never goes in the direction that the reader expects it to go. “But in this story absolutely nothing adheres to the formula. I’m terrible about talking about my own books so, if you’ll let me, I’d like to finish off by quoting my friend, Alan Robson, in a piece he wrote for Phoenixzine in New Zealand: But as Meg puts it, she’s spent most of her life helping people find what they need, and she’s not ready to stop now. Meg, Peg, and Teg are pretty startled, not only because they’ve just been hauled out of book club into another world, but because the three young people who summoned them aren’t human-and seem to view them as the monsters. It’s a portal fantasy in which three women past the first bloom or youth (or even second or third) find themselves summoned to a world by three young people how all have serious issues that are making them unable to move on in their lives. I wrote it as one book, but it was just too huge, so I broke it into two.

Can you tell us about your books Library of the Sapphire Wind, and its sequel, Aurora Borealis Bridge? What can readers expect?įirst thing to expect… This is really one story told in two books. She lives in New Mexico, with her husband, archeologist Jim Moore, and a variety of bossy small animals. in English Literature from Fordham University, but has been a full-time writer since 1994. Lindskold’s works are often intertwined with myth and legend from around the world. (Those are the published ones.) She’s probably best known for the eight volume Firekeeper Saga, about a young woman raised by wolves-who persists in knowing herself a wolf despite evidence to the contrary. Jane Lindskold is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels and eighty some short stories.

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