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VL Stuart
ALLi Author Member
Location: South & Central Amerika
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, General Nonfiction
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture
VL Stuart is a journalist and author living in Costa Rica with her husband and one-eyed dog. She is a long-time reader - usually of science fiction, historical mysteries, and epic fantasy. As a teen, she cut her teeth on Heinlein and Tolkien, then found the delightful worlds of McCaffrey as an adult. Her first genres were poetry and essays and she won awards in both. . . As for her writing process, she is a pantser - \"May all the gods bless grammarly.com.\"
At present, she lives between two volcanoes: \"But no worries, only one of them is active.\",
VL Stuart's books
Orb and Arrow: Exploration
Brillar was expected to follow in her mother's footsteops and become a healer but she had other plans. Now a highly skilled archer, she has been forced to kill to release a bound mage. It may have been self-defense. but that is not excuse for a healer.
Releasing such a skilled War Mage from bondage could get you killed . . . or apprenticed. When she chooses the latter, Brillar finds herself on a desperate journey to stop a rising tide of Darkness.
Orb and Arrow: Honor
A thousand years have passed since the Great War that banished magic users from southern Dereff. Not knowing about the ban, Brillar has chosen to travel to southern cities as apprentice to Master Elden, Mage of the Four Powers. Her unique healing skills are needed in the southern towns; his would be feared.
Their plans for a peaceful journey are shattered when they reach Obreth, where a terrible pestilence rages, devastating the city. They quickly learn that all their Powers are needed to combat the plague and find the man who set it in motion. But struggling with the pestilence has left them vulnerable. Dark powers are at work, and now, Brillar is missing!
Orb and Arrow: Duty
The lords of southern Dereff have asked Brillar and Eden to establish a House of the Four Powers near Obreth. They have accepted the challenge and travel north to recruit mages from both the great houses. Those who agree will have to say their farewells to friends and relatives, cross the Wild with their families, and take up duties in the south.
But deep in the earth, evil is stirring. The Mother, the maker of the Savic, has been roused. Enraged by the death of her daughters at the hands of the mages and their supporters, she has summoned a quartet of daughters, vowing vengeance. Brillar must die, and her friends with her, then the House of Life must be destroyed, and the town of Laurenfell must be laid waste.
For the first time in a thousand years, there will be war!
Life is a Tropical Garden
Moving from a four-season world like upstate New York to a two-season home in Costa Rica is enough to drive a gardener bonkers! Yes, my husband, Metric Man, says ‘It’s not a drive, it’s a short walk,’ but oh well.
Once a barefoot gardener, I now have to wear boots – yuck.
Hills are slippery when wet. So is clay.
Plants don’t behave the way I’m used to. Sniffle.
Leaf-cutter ants? Only tourists think they’re cute!
Oh, my aching joints.