Lorna T. Suzuki

A fan of swashbuckling adventure novels by Alexandre Dumas of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo fame, Lorna Suzuki had noticed that it was always the men going off on great adventures and enjoying the camaraderie of a brotherhood. Most often, the women were portrayed as the damsels-in-distress.

In writing the Imago Chronicles fantasy series, by adding a female protagonist, one that is reluctantly accepted into this brotherhood, the author drew on some of her own experiences as a woman in a once male-dominated field of law enforcement and martial arts to bring Nayla Treeborn the female warrior to life.

With over twenty-five years experience in various forms of martial arts, Suzuki is a 4th-dan practitioner and instructor of Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, a martial arts system incorporating six traditional samurai schools and three schools of ninjutsu under Japanese Soke, Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi. Although Budo Taijutsu has a very long and rich history in Japan and is steeped in tradition, is only now growing in popularity.

With the 9 novel Imago Chronicles series now complete, Suzuki is writing the next instalment of her new Young Adult fantasy series, The Dream Merchant Saga. When not writing fantasy, she is a scriptwriter specializing in biographic documentaries for TV. Suzuki was also a consultant/scriptwriter on the PBS TV series ‘West Coast Adventures’.

On January 20th, 2011 the first three novels of the Imago Chronicles Fantasy series were optioned for a major motion picture trilogy. Pre-production is currently underway!