Laura
Resnick
Winner
of the John W.
Campbell Award, 1993 (Best New Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer
Laura divides her
time between writing, living, traveling, doing the occasional speaking
gig...and trying to provide updated material for her website. Has
written a ton of Romances as "Laura Leone."
Born in Chicago, Illinois. A childhood of being
thrown by horses, bitten by dogs, and terrorized by the Resnicks'
notorious exploding water well helped prepare her adequately for her
future in the publishing industry.
Resnick went on to study French, Italian, and linguistics at
Georgetown, graduating cum laude. Shortly thereafter, she tramped
around most of the Old World, looking at lots of cool paintings,
working in France, and winding up on a kibbutz in Israel for a while.
She studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Music and Dramatic
Art in London, and spent a volatile but happy year teaching English at
the University of Palermo in Italy.
By the time she was thirty, Resnick had sold a dozen romance novels,
all but one of them written under the pseudonym Laura Leone, and
Romantic Times magazine named her the best new writer in her genre. She
then went on an overland journey across Africa. Everything you could
ever want to know about that 8-month journey is recounted in the
award-winning nonfiction book, A Blonde In Africa.
While she was in Africa, Resnick won the John W. Campbell Award as Best
New Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer in recognition of the short stories
she had been writing. Having thus warmed up her muscles, she wrote her
first fantasy novel, In Legend Born -- a project which made crossing
Africa overland seem easy by comparison.
In Legend
Born
Romas
Kukalis
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The White
Dragon
In Fire Forged Part I
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The
Destroyer Goddess
In Fire Forged Part II
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In Legend Born - Review
For a
thousand years, Sileria has toiled under
the yoke of foreign conquerors: the latest, the hedonistic Valdani,
have forced the Silerian mountains clans into harsh slavery. Villages
have been razed, and the innocent populace dragged to the mines to toil
with no hope of escape until their death. By fate and prophecy, five
desperate people have been brought reluctantly together, forging an
uneasy alliance against the Valdani. They are a peasant-turned-outlaw
with a message of resistance; a lethal warrior; a hauntingly seductive
aristocrat; Sileria's most powerful sorcerer who craves revenge almost
as much as freedom from the Valdani; and a fiery Guardian whose
prophetic visions have forged this unlikely union. Torn between their
desire to be free and the demands of centuries-old blood feuds,
together these five must find a way to help their traditional enemies
be strong without exposing any weakness.
The White Dragon:
In Fire Forged I
It is
a time of vast changes in the island nation
of Sileria. Oppressed for centuries by one conqueror after another,
this land of fierce pride and ancient rivalries awaited the prophesied
Firebringer, who would free them. Josarian, a mountain peasant,
survived his leap into the volcano to become the Firebringer. He united
the impoverished shallaheen, the magical fire-wielding Guardians, and
the vastly powerful mages known as Waterlords in an unprecedented
alliance that defeated the foreign Valdani who had ruled Sileria for
too long. But now Josarian is dead, betrayed by the alliance and slain
by the ice-dragon of Kiloran, the most powerful Waterlord in Sileria.
Tansen, Josarian’s second-in-command, has taken up the banner of
independence, and leads the shallaheen and the Guardians against the
Waterlords so that Sileria can be free of a tyranny far worse than
Valdani rule. As the volcano goddess Dar rumbles her displeasure in
earthquakes and lava flows, the forces of fate, prophecy, and magic
combine to create new heroes-from the desolate mountains, from the
water-starved cities, from the sea, and even from beneath the earth.
Ancient forces join with unlikely allies to fulfill the prophecies that
inspire revolt and excite religious fervor. But in Sileria, betrayal
has long been a way of life, and it wears many faces as the ambitions
of the high and the low ensnare the fates of people across the land,
wreaking havoc among the faithful.
The
Destroyer
Goddess: In Fire Forged II
As
the waterlords begin a reign more terrible
than that of the Valdani, Tansen, Josarian's second-in-command, joins
forces with Mirabar, a Guardian who is feared and admired for her fire
magic, and Zarien, a mysterious sea-born boy.
Mirabar
and her bitter enemy, Torena Elelar, the faithless wife of a
Valdani aristocrat, contend with prophecies both vague and daunting,
each destined to serve the destroyer goddess in her own way as they try
to discover the meaning of Mirabar's visions.
The
fragile alliances forged by Tansen between the peasant shallaheen
and the Guardian resistance begin to crumble as he tries desperately to
save Sileria. Zarien, however, is determined to bring Tansen to the sea
goddess Sharifar to be her consort. But no goddess is as easy to
placate as mortals may think . . . .
And
Kiloran will stop at nothing to trap Tansen and crush the resistance in
order to maintain his tyrannical reign.
As
the power struggle among Sileria's warring factions intensifies to a
fevered pitch, the tremors of Mount Darshon increase, threatening to
engulf them all in molten death. Kiloran and Tansen prepare for a final
confrontation that will change Sileria forever. But no one may triumph
unless the destroyer goddess wills it . . .
Novels
Diaspperaing
Nightly
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Diaspperaing
Nightly
I'm
not a heroine — I just play one.
Also
psychotics, vamps, orphans, hookers, housewives and — on one
memorable occasion — a singing rutabaga. It was never my ambition to
utilize my extensive dramatic training by playing a musical vegetable.
However,
as my agent is fond of pointing out, there are more actors in
New York than there are people in most other cities. Translation:
Beggars can't be choosers. This explains how I wound up painting my
body green and prancing around stage half-naked the night Golly Gee,
the female lead in the off-Broadway show 'Sorceror!' disappeared into
thin air. Literally. Now other performers are also vanishing, and a
mysterious stranger is warning me: There is evil among us.
But
the producers want me to take over Golly's part. Looks like I'm
going to need a little magical help if I want to keep my starring
role....
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