But I do manage to tear myself away from the computer now and then to do something fun.
It requires a pretty obsessive-compulsive personality to be as prolific as I’ve been in the past ten years and hold down a full-time job. I mostly write my fiction in the evenings and on weekends. Now I write about management education and interview some really cool, really smart people from all over the world. Many people don’t know this, but I’m a CPF (Certified Picture Framer), having passed a very long, technical test to prove I understood the tenets of conservation framing. My longest stint, seventeen years, was at DECOR. I’ve spent most of my journalism career at three trade and association magazines-The Professional Photographer (which, as you might guess, went to studio and industrial photographers), DECOR (which went to frame shop and art gallery owners), and BizEd (which is directed at deans and professors at business schools). It occurred to me early on that it might take some time and a lot of tries before I was able to publish any of my creative writing, so I pursued a degree in journalism at Northwestern University so I’d be able to support myself while I figured out how to write fiction. My first poem was about Halloween: "What is tonight? What is tonight?/Try to guess and you’ll guess right." Perhaps this inauspicious beginning explains why it took me till I was in my thirties to sell a novel.
Accompanying her is a motley band of magic-users and warriors including Tayse, first among the Kings Riderswho holds a hard view of mystics in general, and Senneth in particular.But as the unlikely allies venture farther into the south, they will face death in a land under the sway of a fanatical cult that would purge Gillengaria of all magic users.I’ve been writing stories and poems since I was eight years old. So he dispatches the mystic Senneth to assess the threat throughout the realm. It is whispered that he issued the decree because his new wife used her magic powers to ensnare himThe King knows there are those in the noble Twelve Houses who could use this growing dissent to overthrow him.
In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a dangerous level, though King Baryn has ordered that such mystics are to be tolerated. National bestselling and award-winning author Sharon Shinn weaves a new world wrought with magic and mayhemGillengaria seethes with unrest.
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