Rosemary Edghill

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Rosemary Edghill , maiden name Eluki Bes Shahar (* 1956 ) is an American fantasy - and science fiction - writer and editor . She adopted her pseudonym as the official name in 2004 .

biography

The publishers of her first novel convinced her that her maiden name was detrimental to sales in the English-speaking world, and so she called herself Rosemary Edghill from then on. Her sister, a reference librarian , publishes under the name India Edghill.

When asked who influenced her (Rosemary Edghill) writing, she replied:

"Too many to count. Damon Runyon and Mark Twain, for use of language. CL Moore and Eric Frank Russell, ditto. For storybuilding and sheer artfulness, John Le Carre. For language (again!) Margaret Atwood. For a great story, which is the First Thing in my book, John D. MacDonald, Peter O'Donnell, Ian Fleming, Leslie Charteris, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett (and we're back to the language thing again). Kipling. Poe. Clark Ashton Smith Robert E. Howard, Robert A. Heinlein, Lovecraft. For that matter, I think I owe as much to the great editors of SF's silver age as to the writers, so here's to you: John W. Campbell, Groff Conklin, and Damon Knight. "

"There are too many to count. Damon Runyon and Mark Twain for word choice and language skills. Likewise CL Moore and Eric Frank Russell. John Le Carre for plot structure and level of complexity. Margaret Atwood for their language For a good action that is always a priority for me, it is John D. MacDonald, Peter O'Donnell, Ian Fleming, Leslie Charteris, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Kipling, Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard , Robert A. Heinlein and Lovecraft. And of course I owe thanks to the great authors of the silver age of SF, namely John W. Campbell, Groff Conklin, and Damon Knight. "

Edghill also worked with well-known colleagues such as Andre Norton , Mercedes Lackey , and Marion Zimmer Bradley .

Edghill lives in upstate New York with her cats and King Charles Spaniels . She trains her dogs and displays them on Obedience - competitions .

bibliography

Regency Romances

  • Turkish Delight , 1987
  • Two of a Kind , 1988
  • The Ill-Bred Bride , 1990
  • Fleeting Fancy , 1993

Hellflower

  • Hellflower , 1991
  • Darktraders , 1992
  • Archangel Blues , 1993

bast

  • Speak Daggers to Her , 1994
  • Book of Moons , 1995
  • The Bowl of Night , 1996

The Twelve Treasures

  • The Empty Crown , 1997 (anthology)
  • The Sword of Maiden's Tears , 1994
  • The Cup of Morning Shadows , 1995
  • The Cloak of Night and Daggers , 1997

Novels

  • King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow , 1992
  • Ghostlight , 1995
  • Witchlight , 1996
  • Gravelight , 1997
  • Smoke and Mirrors , 1997
  • Met By Moonlight , 1998
  • Heartlight , 1998 (with Tom DeFalco )
  • Time's Arrow: The Future , 1998, (X-Men & Spider-Man # 3) (with Andre Norton)
  • The Shadow of Albion , 1999
  • Leopard in Exile , 2001 (with Mercedes Lackey)
  • Beyond World's End , 2001
  • Spirits White as Lightning , 2001
  • The Warslayer , 2002
  • Vengeance of Masks , 2003
  • Mad Maudlin , 2003
  • Paying the Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Other Stories , 2003 (with Marion Zimmer Bradley)
  • Bedlam's Edge , 2005
  • Music to My Sorrow , 2005
  • Legacies , 2010
  • Conspiracies , 2011
  • Dead Reckoning , 2012
  • Sacrifices , 2013

Short stories

  • Shadowkiss , 1995, The Ever-After , 1989
  • Black Magic , 1998, Spellbinder , 1991 (as Eluki Bes Shahar)
  • Is Your Coworker a Space Alien? , 1994
  • The New Britomart , 1995
  • To Light This Light , 1997, To Light Such a Candle , 1995 (as Eluki Bes Shahar)
  • Jungfernblick , 2002, Queeneyes , 1995 (as Eluki Bes Shahar)
  • The son of the owl priestess , 1999, Prince of Exiles , 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ^ County Clerk Document Search . Dutchess County, New York. 2004. Document # 4215. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c What's in a Name? Interviewing Rosemary Edghill from Vision: A Resource for Writers , by Lazette Gifford, archived at sff.net
  3. ↑ Authors: India Edghill  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 28, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / us.macmillan.com  
  4. ↑ Legacies, Lackey & Edghill (accessed July 28, 2012)
  5. ↑ End Notes . In: Margaret Weiss (Ed.): A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic ( English ). Warner Books, New York, NY 1994, ISBN 0446670634 (Retrieved March 23, 2013).
  6. ↑ a b c Fantastic Fiction: eluki bes shahar . In: Fantastic Fiction database . Fantastic Fiction Limited. Retrieved March 23, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Edghill, Rosemary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eluki Bes Shahar (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956