Series

I first got glimpses of these stories when I was a kid, writing about kids. Inda's story would have been all about the academy, with the adults and their doings far off in the hazy background. But I knew I had to figure out what they were doing. Also, I knew that the...

These books' original drafts were written when I was a kid. Kids are at the center, though they end up involved in world events. When I typed them up from the handwritten notebooks decades later, I tried hard to preserve the kid perspective while rewriting them.

The CJ...

I guess these would be called romantasies now--though I don't know if that term will stick. Cozy romantic fantasies, definitely. ("Cozy", for me, being defined by a text that soon clues the reader that nothing horrible is going to happen by the end, though there might be...

The origin of this series was Ruritanian romance--castles and swords in modern times, set in Eastern Europe. I read Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda as a teen, and also watched the black and white film, loving the panache, but resenting the fact that as usual, men got...

This series began as my Covid project, the year after lockdown, when the vaccines landed me in bed for four and a half months. I decided to use all the tropes I loved best, set on an island world I'd been writing about for many years, but located on the far side of it,...

This series began as a television show. It was even being developed for TV when the usual Hollywood hiccup trashed the project, luckily while we were still dickering over the contract, or our rights would have been gobbled up. We turned it into books.

Our focus was teens...

I fell in love with Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer's novels at an early age, which focused my historical studies for many years. Though my devotion to Heyer began gradually to fade, except for favorite bits, and a few books that I liked all the way through, my love for...

1. In January 2026 the final versions will be reissued one at a time.

We were a couple of twenty-somethings in 1977 when Star Wars came out. Younger readers probably can’t imagine the impact of that film on a generation accustomed to SF movies that were either glorified...

This is a miscellany of novels, novelettes, and short stories.

Included is a link to the Silver Shifters books, under the name Zoe Chant--this is an umbrella author name begun by Rachel Manija Brown for a series of upbeat paranormal (shifter) romances. The earlier stories...