Freda Warrington

Freda Warrington

Freda Warrington (born June 22, 1956 in Leicester ) is a British writer.

Life

Freda Warrington grew up in Leicestershire , the only child of a pianist and print shop manager . She started writing stories when she was five. She began the first novel in the "Blackbird" cycle, "A Blackbird in Silver", when she was sixteen.

After high school and training at Loughborough College of Art and Design , she then worked for a few years at the Medical Illustration Department of Leicester Royal Infirmary . Warrington used her free time to write.

Warrington is married and now lives in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire with her husband and widowed mother . Besides writing, she works part time in Charnwood Forest .

About her work

After she became known through the "Blackbird" cycle, Warrington wrote mostly dark fantasy as in the vampire novels of the "Blood Sequence" series.

Works

Single novels

• The Rainbow Gate. New English Library, 1990, ISBN 0-45049-149-8 . (English)
• Sorrow's Light. Pan Books, 1993, ISBN 0-33032-664-3 . (English)
• Dracula the undead returns. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1998, ISBN 3-46202-680-1 . (Original: Dracula, The Undead. Penguin Books, 1997, ISBN 0-14026-880-4 .)
• The Court of the Midnight King. Pocket Books, 2003, ISBN 0-74341-567-1 . (English)

"Blackbird" cycle

In a parallel world, three unequal companions, the hated Prince Ashurek of Gorethria, the peace-loving Estarinel and the unfathomable Medrian of Alaak fight to prevent the serpent M'gulfn from destroying the universe.

• Three warriors in silver. Heyne, 1993, ISBN 3-45305-027-4 . (Original: A Blackbird in Silver. New English Library, 1986, ISBN 0-45005-849-2 .)
• Three warriors in black. Heyne, 1994, ISBN 3-45305-028-2 . (Original: A Blackbird in Darkness. New English Library, 1986, ISBN 0-45040-161-8 .)
• Three warriors in gold. Heyne, 1994, ISBN 3-45305-857-7 . (Original: A Blackbird in Amber. New English Library, 1988, ISBN 0-45041-903-7 .)
• Three warriors in the twilight. Heyne, 1994, ISBN 3-45305-858-5 . (Original: A Blackbird in Twilight. New English Library, 1988, ISBN 0-45048-908-6 .)
• Darker Than the Storm. New English Library, 1992, ISBN 0-45053-817-6 .

"Blood Sequence" series

Shy Charlotte falls in love with the vampire Karl von Wultendorf in England in the 1920s.

• The blood of love. Bastei Lübbe, 1994, ISBN 3-40413-552-0 . (Original: A Taste of Blood Wine. Pan Books, 1992, ISBN 0-33032-578-7 .)
• A Dance in Blood Velvet. Macmillan UK, 1994, ISBN 0-33362-818-7 . (English)
• The Dark Blood of Poppies. Macmillan UK, 1995, ISBN 0-33363-732-1 . (English)
• The Dark Arts of Blood. Titan Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78116-710-6 . (English)

"Dark Cathedral" series

• Dark Cathedral. Signet Creed UK, 1996, ISBN 0-45118-402-5 . (English)
• Pagan Moon. Signet Creed UK, 1997, ISBN 0-45118-403-3 . (English)

"Jewel Fire" saga

• The Amber Citadel. Heyne, 2001, ISBN 3-453-18813-6 .
• The tower of Heliodor. Heyne, 2001, ISBN 3-45318-818-7 . (Original for both: The Amber Citadel. Earthlight, 1999, ISBN 0-67102-190-7 .)
• The sapphire throne. Heyne, 2002, ISBN 3-45319-624-4 . (Original: The Sapphire Throne. Earthlight, 2000, ISBN 0-74340-826-8 .)
• The gateway into the dark . Heyne, 2001, ISBN 3-45319-629-5 . (Original: Obsidian Tower. Earthlight, 2001, ISBN 0-74341-607-4 .)

"Aetherial Tales" series

• Elfland. Tor Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-76535-840-0 . (English)
• Midsummer Night. Tor Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-76531-870-1 . (English)
• Grail of the Summer Stars. Tor Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-76531-871-8 . (English)

Short stories

• Shine for Me. In Chris Morgan (Ed.): Dark Fantasies. Legend, 1989, ISBN 0-7126-2413-9 . (English)
• The Palomino Boy. In Alex Stewart (ed.): Arrows of Eros. New English Library, 1989, ISBN 0-45050-249-X . (English)
• My name is not Juliete. In Andrew Haigh (ed.): Scaremongers. Tanjen, 1997, ISBN 1-90153-007-8 . (English)
• The Raven Bound. In Stephen Jones (Ed.): The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women. Robinson, 1999, ISBN 1-84119-297-X . (English)
• Cat and the Cold Prince. In Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick (Eds.): Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge. Roc / New American Library, 2005, ISBN 0-45146-044-8 . (English)
• And Their Blood Will Be Prescient to Fire. In Ian Whates (Ed.): Myth-Understandings. NewCon Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-95557-912-7 . (English)
• Fall of the House of Blackwater. In Ian Whates (Ed.): The Bitten Word. NewCon Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-90706-906-2 . (English)
• Persephone's Chamber. The Write Fantastic (Ed.): Anniversaries. NewCon Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-90706-919-2 . (English)

Awards

• 1997: Children of the Night Award for Dracula, The Undead
• 2009: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award in the Fantasy Novel category for Elfland

Web links

• Literature by and about Freda Warrington in the catalog of the German National Library
• Freda Warrington in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Freda Warrington in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Freda Warrington at Open Library
• Official website (English)
• Phantastik-Couch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freda Warrington on ISFDB (English)
2. ↑ About the Author on FredaWarrington.com (English)
3. ↑ About Freda Warrington on Phantastik-Couch.de
4. ↑ Winner of the Children-of-the-Night-Award on The Dracula Society (English)
5. ↑ Winner 2009 of the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (English)