Teresa Edgerton
Teresa was born in Van Nuys, California, 1949. Her family moved to northern California when she was a teenager,
then back to southern California (briefly), and finally to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has lived ever
since.
She met her husband, John Edgerton, in 1971, at the local Renaissance
Faire, where she was working as a Tarot reader and he was part of a
Society for Creative Anachronism troupe putting on demonstrations of
medieval tourney combat. They became better acquainted through their
involvement in the SCA, and other historical recreations, and were
married, in her parent's back yard in an early Tudor-style ceremony, a
mere eight months later.
In 1973 they started their family, welcoming daughter Gwyneth Alianora,
who missed being born on Halloween by less than two hours. Twenty
months later, a second child, Daisy Elizabeth, was born. Often mistaken for
twins, Gwyneth and Daisy spent much of their time growing up posing in a
variety of Medieval, Renaissance, and Victorian costumes.
Meanwhile, Teresa, determined to remain a stay-at-home mother, spent
the next several years attempting to add to the family income by working
as a professional psychic and by making puppets. She, John, and the girls
(now joined by Megan Angharad) barely scraped by. At the age of
twenty-nine, Teresa decided that it was time to get serious about her life-long ambition to become a writer. She
spent the next several years writing the steadily expanding epic that would eventually become The Green Lion
Trilogy. The family was also expanding, with the birth of a fourth child, John-Miles (more of a surprise than an
accident).
Child of Saturn was published in 1989. Two sequels soon followed. After that, Teresa's writing production slowed
down somewhat, as the demands of motherhood, baseball (both Megan and Miles spent a number of years in Little
League), and volunteer work at the local elementary school took up much of her time. There were also severe
health problems, which slowed down the writing process even more, and led to a period of virtual seclusion.
Now, with her health restored, and having reached the venerable age of
fifty, Teresa finds herself the author of nine books and six short stories.
Though her children are grown, her nest is far from empty, as only
Daisy (recently married to Johnny Hyland) and Megan have flown the
coop . . . er, nest. Gwyneth sells lottery tickets and is an amateur film
expert. Daisy works in accounting. Megan works in an art store and
does custom framing. Miles draws strange pictures and tries to decide
what he wants to do with his life. Husband John is still involved in the
SCA, making armour, fletching arrows, and writing articles on Medieval
archery.
Over the years, the Edgerton menage has included a variety of
livestock, but the four-footed family members now number four: two
rambunctious dogs (Banshee and Goblin) and two aging cats (Saturn
and Vitriol).
Books:
The Queen's Necklace
Author's Homepage:
http://teresaedgerton.com
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