Sarah Ash

'Thursday's Child has Far to Go.' Sarah was born on a Thursday' and she still likes to think that means there's a lot more mileage in her yet, particularly when it comes to her first love, writing.

Inspired by reading 'The Lord of the Rings' at the age of twelve, she started writing her own fantasy novels but chose to study music at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), Cambridge. She's always enjoyed working with young people, so she trained as a teacher at Homerton College, Cambridge.

Staying at home when her two sons were small, Sarah started writing again and her first short story was published in 1992. Her first novel 'Moths to a Flame' came out in 1995 from Orion, followed by eleven other fantasy novels, not to mention various short stories for 'Interzone', as well as for several SFF anthologies and collections, most recently for the Alchemy Press. She's taught music on and off all her life and retired after running a primary school library for seventeen years.

Sarah also reviews manga and anime - another passion! - for various online magazines and brought out the two fantasy novels 'Tide Dragons' inspired by Japanese mythology. 'Flight into Darkness,' her eighth fantasy novel and sequel to 'Tracing the Shadow,' was published in early 2009 by Bantam Spectra. In response to many requests from readers, she has written 'The Arkhel Conundrum', a direct sequel to the popular Artamon trilogy and is now working on Book 5.

Her dream? To see one of her stories reinterpreted as manga or anime...