Alma Alexander

"I have a wonderful occupation; I dream for a living."

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Alma Alexander, the 'Duchess of Fantasy', is a scientist by education, a duchess by historical accident and an author who shares writing tips and glimpses of a writer's life, the mundane and the magic, on her Blog.

She has written three million words in more than 20 books, and her novel, "The Secrets of Jin-shei," has been published around the world in 14 languages. The heroine of her popular YA series, Worldweavers, is as American as Harry Potter is British. With her MSc in Molecular Biology, she has shone the light of science into the shadowy world of shapeshifters in the Were Chronicles.

She was born on the banks of an ancient river in a country which no longer exists, grew up in Africa, went to school in a castle in Wales, and has lived in several countries on four continents. An American man she met on the Internet asked her to marry him, promising her coffee in bed every morning. They live among the evergreens in the Pacific northwest with two cats as well as visiting deer and raccoons. She still gets her morning coffee served in bed.