Kate Elliott
"Kate Elliott" published her first novel with DAW Books in 1992. Her Novels of the Jaran, set in Earth's future, follow the
changes in the culture of the nomadic people known as the Jaran from their first contact with Earth to their emergence onto the
stage of galatic politics.
The author has described Jaran, the first in the series, as "Jane Austen meets Genghis Khan" in a science fiction setting. Jaran
was on both Locus Magazine's Recommended List and VOYA's Best of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Lists for novels
published in 1992. Subsequent novels in the Jaran series are An Earthly Crown and His Conquering Sword (which
together form a single story, aka THE SWORD OF HEAVEN), and The Law of Becoming. The narrative will continue in
future volumes (she promises!), even if it may take her a while to get to some of them.
In addition to her science-fiction novels she is the co-author, together with writers Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson, of the
bestselling fantasy novel The Golden Key, which was a 1997 World Fantasy Award finalist. She'll be writing a solo sequel in
the near future. She has also published short stories in the field in various anthologies.
Her latest series is an epic fantasy, Crown of Stars. The first two volumes, King's Dragon and Prince of Dogs, are both
available in bookstores, and she is currently working on volume three, The Burning Stone. The fourth and final volume,
Crown of Stars, will follow.
She earlier published four novels under her real name, Alis A. Rasmussen.
Alis Rasmussen grew up outside the thriving metropolis of Junction City, Oregon (population 2500). No doubt the wholesome
country environment led her to the joys of lurid adventure fiction. After reading The Lord of the Rings in eighth grade, she
never looked back. She wrote her first novel in high school and went on to write four more before her "first" novel, The
Labyrinth Gate, was published in 1988.
A graduate of Mills College, in Oakland, California, Rasmussen worked at the BBC in London and at Keyboard Magazine in
Cupertino, California, before becoming a full-time writer. She holds a brown belt in Shotokan karate and has experience in
medieval broadsword fighting (from which she can truly say that she met her husband in a sword fight).
Together with her husband, an archaeologist, Rasmussen has traveled in Greece, exploring the ruins of the Minoans,
Myceneans, Greeks, Crusaders, and Turks, and she has also visited Rome, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark,
and the U.K. (where she attended the University of Wales for her junior year abroad in college). More recently, with their three
children, they have lived in Mexico where they investigated ancient Mesoamerican cities as well as modern Mexican ones.
Currently they live in central Pennsylvania, together with two very old newts.
Books:
The novels of the Jaran:
Jaran (Book 1)
An Earthly Crown (Book 2)
His Conquering Sword (Book 3)
The Law of Becoming (Book 4)
The Crown of Stars:
King's Dragon (Book 1)
The Prince of Dogs (Book 2)
The Burning Stone (Book 3)
Child of Flame (Book 4)
The Gathering Storm (Book 5)
Author's Homepage:
www.sff.net/people/Kate.Elliott/
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