Rosemary Edghill
Rosemary Edghill was born and raised in the beautiful
Mid-Hudson Valley, despite which fact she did not attend the
notorious Vassar College, which gave the world Esther Friesner,
Delia Sherman, Paula Volsky, Meryl Streep, and the notorious
India Edghill, all within the space of a few short years. Instead,
Miss Edghill roamed the world as a companion to gentlewomen
while being instructed in the esoteric arts of layout and pasteup,
which makes her one of the few women in America who can
still kern type by hand.
The introduction of the computer having put an end to her
razor-blade days, Miss Edghill turned to writing and made her
first sale in 1987, when she wrote Turkish Delight, a
well-received Regency Romance in the style of Georgette Heyer. Turkish Delight was
followed by Two of a Kind, Fleeting Fancy, and The Ill-Bred Bride before Ms. Edghill
succumbed to the temptation that all Regency authors face and turned to murder. In 1994 she
published Speak Daggers To Her, the first book in a mystery series (with, as Miss Edghill
assures us, no fantastic elements) featuring the adventures of Bast, a single white Witch who
solves crimes in the New York Occult Community. Two more books followed, and, as was
almost inevitable, she then wrote a time-travel romance with a modern Wiccan protagonist
who is transported to England in 1647 to square off against Matthew Hopkins. Met by
Moonlight was a February 1998 Kensington Books release.
In her free time, Miss Edghill also writes fantasy. Her series about elves and librarians, The
Twelve Treasures, was partly inspired by her own work for the Ryerson Memorial Library in
Ippisiqua, and partly by the fact that she'd read one too many bad fantasies. The Sword of
Maiden's Tears was followed by two other light classics, The Cup of Morning Shadows,
and The Cloak of Night and Daggers (in which can be found the titles for all the rest of the
books in the series, says Edghill).
Her work has been mentioned in "Thog's Masterclass" in Ansible, an honor of which she is
deeply sensible. Someday her (alternate-universe historical Regency fantasy) collaboration
with SF Grand Master Andre Norton, Shadow of Albion: Carolus Rex, Book I will be
published by Tor Books (in hardcover, with a Thomas Canty cover), and upon that day, the
orriflame of freedom will once more fly above Fort Zinderneuf and the vultures return to
Hinckley, Ohio. She lives in Ippisiqua with her roommate, eluki bes shahar.
eluki bes shahar grew to radiant womanhood in Alameda, California, long
enough ago to have seen Classic Trek on its first outing and to remember
that she once thought Spock Must Die! to be great literature. As she
reluctantly aged, she put aside her fond dreams of taking over from
Batman when he retired and turned her mind to more serious matters, like
earning a living. After a stint at John Herron Art School in Indianapolis --
where she discovered all the fun things that photography chemicals can do
to your skin and why it isn't really a good idea to pull the matte knife
toward you when you cut -- she returned to her first love, writing, with the Hellflower series,
in which Damon Runyon meets Doc Smith over at the old Bester place. And oddly enough,
all those high school typing classes turned out to be useful after all.
Finding herself surfing ahead of the curve in the space-fantasy renaissance, eluki turned her
hand to short stories (which have appeared in venues ranging from Dragon Magazine to
Chicks in Chainmail) and eventually went on to fulfil a lifelong ambition (well, lifelong since
1964, anyway) and write the X-Men. Smoke and Mirrors was published by Boulevard
books in September 1997 (it was supposed to be called Children of the Atom, but you know
how these things go). Her 1998 X-Men novel, authored with Marvel Comics writer Tom
deFalco, is officially titled "Spider-Man and the X-Men: Time's Arrow: Book Three: The
Future", and known around the Batcave as "Spidey and Wolverine Meet the Space
Slugs". A third X-Men novel is in the works, just as soon as she finds a map of downtown
Tibet.
In the spirit of adventure which informs her every action, in 1995 the Madchen of Mystery
decided to check out the writer's life from the other side of the desk. Snagging the plush job
of editorial assistant to skiffy arbiter and free-range epigone John Douglas, then at Avon, she
spent a year in the belly of the beast. She is currently a consulting editor for Swordsmith
Productions and leads workshops on plotting the genre novel, as well as continuing to write
full-time. She was the 1994 runner-up in the Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition at
Readercon, and clutches this honor to her secret heart as a touchstone with which to guide her
future actions. archy* and mehitabel have been a lifelong influence on her and she owns far
too many Chad Mitchell Trio albums for somebody born in 1956.
She lives in Ippisiqua with her roommate, Rosemary Edghill, and never sleeps.
(used with permission of Rosemary Edgehill)
Books:
The Sword of Maiden Tears (The Twelve Treasures: Book 1)
The Cup of Morning Shadows (The Twelve Treasures: Book 2)
The Cloak of Night and Daggers (The Twelve Treasures: Book 3)
Read a chapter of THE SWORD OF MAIDEN'S TEARS
Read a chapter of THE CLOAK OF NIGHT AND DAGGERS
Read a chapter of THE CUP OF MORNING SHADOWS
(all on Rosemary's site)
Author's Homepage:
http://www.sff.net/people/eluki/
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