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Desert Dispatches
Paid Account, Created on 12 December 2003 (#1540389), Last updated on 21 May 2013 [Gift]
- Name:
- Janni Lee Simner
- Website:
- http://www.simner.com
- External Services:
- Schools:
- Washington University in St. Louis - St. Louis, MO (1985 - 1989)
- Interests: (77)
- ahiru, antarctica, arakistan, arctic foxes, backpacking, ballads, books, breaking the fourth wall, buried treasure, camping, carterhaugh, changelings, children's books, consensus, dark fantasy, edible insects, exploration, faerie, fairy tales, fakir, fantasy, fencing, flying carpets, folk music, folklore, ghost horses, girl scout leaders, girl scouts, hallgerður, hiking, horses, iabc, iceland, icelandic sagas, imaginary places, impossible tasks, laxdaela saga, light fantasy, lnhammer, lyrical prose, metaphor, neko-sensei, njal's saga, njála, not slaying dragons, number theory, polar bears, post-apocalyptic fiction, pretend friends, princess tutu, professional adventurers, ravens, reading, reykjavík, road trips, running, sagas, scbwi, secret passages, sfwa, shakespeare, shapeshifters, singing, sleeping under the stars, sonoran desert, tessering, thunderstorms, transformation, travel, treasure maps, turnip shields, vestfirðir, writing, ya, young adult fiction, Þingvellír, ísland
- Bio
- I live in the Arizona desert, where the plants know how to bite and the dandelions have thorns; in spite of these things--or maybe because of them--I'm feel like I live in one of the most stunning places on earth. I'm author of the post-apocalyptic young adult fantasies Bones of Faerie and Faerie Winter, as well as of Thief Eyes, a contemporary YA fantasy set in Iceland.
I've also published four books for younger readers, most recently Secret of the Three Treasures, as well as more than 30 short stories.
(Note to livejournal users: feel free to add or remove my journal from your friends list at will. I'm delighted if you want to hang around, not at all offended if you don't, and generally treat my friends list as more of a reading list--and tend to add to or shorten mine depending on how badly I need to buckle down and get some work done in turn!)
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