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Sherwood Smith

(b.1951)

Sherwood Smith started making books out of paper towels at age six. In between stories, she studied and traveled in Europe, got a Masters degree in history, and now lives in Southern California with her spouse, two kids, and two dogs. She’s worked in jobs ranging from counter work in a smoky harbor bar to the film industry. Writing books is what she loves best. She’s the author of the high fantasy History of Sartorias-deles series as well as the modern-day fantasy adventures of Kim Murray in Coronets and Steel.

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children's Fiction, Horror

Series

Wren
   1. Wren to the Rescue (1990)
   2. Wren's Quest (1993)
   3. Wren's War (1995)
   4. Wren Journeymage (2010)

Exordium (with Dave Trowbridge)
   1. The Phoenix in Flight (1993)
   2. Ruler of Naught (1993)
   3. A Prison Unsought (1994)
   4. The Rifter's Covenant (1995)
   5. The Thrones of Kronos (1996)

Solar Queen (with Andre Norton)
6. Derelict for Trade (1997)
7. A Mind for Trade (1997)

Crown and Court Duel
   1. Crown Duel (1997)
   2. Court Duel (1998)
   A Stranger to Command (2008)
   Remalna's Children (2011)

Time Traders (with Andre Norton)
6. Echoes in Time (1999)
7. Atlantis Endgame (2002)

Inda
   1. Inda (2006)
   2. The Fox (2007)
   3. The King's Shield (2008)
   4. Treason's Shore (2009)

CJ's Notebooks
   1. Over the Sea (2007)
   2. Mearsies Heili Bounces Back (2008)
   4. Poor World (2011)
   6. Hunt Across Worlds (2011)

Sasharia En Garde
1. Once a Princess (2009)
2. Twice a Prince (2009)

Dobrenica
   1. Coronets and Steel (2010)
   2. Blood Spirits (2011)
   3. Revenant Eve (2012)

Spy Princess
1. The Spy Princess (2012)
2. Sartor (2012)

Lhind
   1. Lhind the Thief (2013)
   2. Lhind the Spy (2015)
   3. Lhind the Firebird (2020)

Change (with Rachel Manija Brown)
   1. Stranger (2014)
   2. Hostage (2015)
   3. Rebel (2017)

Sophy Croft's
1. Fair Winds and Homeward Sail (2015)

Rise of the Alliance
   1. A Sword Named Truth (2019)
   2. The Blood Mage Texts (2021)
   3. The Hunters and the Hunted (2022)
   4. Nighhtside of the Sun (2022)
   4. Nightside of the Sun (2022)

Time of Daughters
1. Time of Daughters (2019)
2. Time of Daughters II (2019)

Phoenix Feather
   1. Fledglings (2021)
   2. Redbark (2021)
   3. Firebolt (2021)
   4. Dragon and Phoenix (2022)

Novels

   The Borrowers (1997)
   Senrid (2007)
   A Posse of Princesses (2008)
   The Trouble with Kings (2008)
   Barefoot Pirate (2011)
   Fleeing Peace (2011)
   Banner of the Damned (2012)
   Danse de la Folie (2012)
   Rondo Allegro (2014)
   Zapped (2015)
   Miss Eleanor Tilney: or, The Reluctant Heroine (2016)
   The Wicked Skill (2022)

Collections

Whispered Magics (2013)
Swift the Chase (2019) (with Casey Blair, Joyce Chng, P Djèlí Clark, Andrea K Höst, Intisar Khanani, Melissa McShane, Raf Morgan and Rachel Neumeier)

Novellas

   Being Real (2015)
   And Horses are Born with Eagles' Wings (2015)
   The Dancing Monkeys (2015)
   Henry and Fanny (2015)
   The Poignant Sting (2015)
   Commando Bats (2015)
   Lily and Crown (2019)

Series contributed to

Voyage of the Basset
3. Journey to Otherwhere (2000)

Earth - Final Conflict
4. Augur's Teacher (2001)

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
6. Paradise Drift (2005)

Dori and Emma in Oz
   1. The Emerald Wand of Oz (2005)
   2. Trouble Under Oz (2006)
   3. Sky Pyrates Over Oz (2016)

Anthologies edited

Beyond the Last Star (2002) (with Jeffry Dwight)
It Happened at the Ball (2018)

Anthologies containing stories by Sherwood Smith

Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens (1995)
Sisters in Fantasy 2 (1996)
Wizard Fantastic (1997)

Short stories

	Curing the Bozos (1994)
	Daria's Window (1996)
	Mastery (1997)

Awards

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Children/Young Adult Fiction nominee (2013) : The Spy Princess

Sherwood Smith recommends

Lords of Rainbow (2003)
(Lords of Rainbow)
Vera Nazarian
"Vera Nazarian's second novel, Lords of Rainbow, is a delight, full of the rich imagery, the humor, lyricism, adventure, insight, and delicious eastern fairy tale flavor that readers first met in Dreams of the Compass Rose. Nazarian gives us a tale wove out of color - unpredictable, funny, wise, and always entertaining. She's a talent to watch."

The Way into Magic (2015)
(Great Way, book 2)
Harry Connolly
"Complex world, tight action, awesome women as well as men, Connolly was good right out the gate and just keeps getting better."

Starlings (2018)
Jo Walton
"One of the things I love about Walton’s work is her range of human possibility, from laughter to horror, but above all a reveling in profligate beauty. This collection celebrates the best in the human spirit."

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