Alethea Kontis
| Alethea Kontis | |
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Kontis at Burke Centre Library in 2013 | |
| Born |
Alethea Kontis January 11, 1976 South Burlington, Vermont, US |
| Occupation | writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Horror fiction, science fiction, fantasy |
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Alethea Kontis (born January 11, 1976) is an American writer of picture books and speculative fiction, primarily for children.[1][2] She lives in Titusville, FL.
Selected works
Novels
- Enchanted The Woodcutter Sisters Book 1 (Harcourt Books, 2012)[3][4]
- Hero The Woodcutter Sisters Book 2 (HM Harcourt, 2013)
- Dearest The Woodcutter Sisters Book 3 (HM Harcourt, 2015)[5]
- Trixter" The Trix Adventures Book 1 (Self Published, 2015)
Collections
- Beauty & Dynamite (Apex Publications) ISBN 0-9776681-7-7 – essays and poems
- Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming: the worlds of Alethea Kontis (2013, Alliteration Ink)[6]
Non-fiction
- The Dark-Hunter Companion, co-written with Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Griffin, 2007) ISBN 0-31236-343-5 - guide to the Dark-Hunter series
Children's books
- AlphaOops!: The Day Z Went First, illustrated by Bob Kolar (Candlewick Press, 2006)
- Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome, illus. Janet K. Lee; (Thaumatrope, 2009)
- AlphaOops!: H is for Halloween, illus. Bob Kolar, (Candlewick Press, 2010)
- The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice's Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There, illus. Janet K. Lee (Archaia, 2012)
Short stories
- "Sunday" (Realms of Fantasy, October 2006)
- "Small Magics" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, October 2006)
- "Blood & Water" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, July 2008) (Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered, February 13, 2015, reprint)
- "Clockwise" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Nov. 2011)
- "Black Hole Sun" (w/Kelli Dunlap)
- "Life's a Beach" (w/Ariell Branson)
- "Blue & Gray and Black & Green"
- "Ghost Dancer"
- "The Giant & The Unicorn"
- "Sweetheart Come"
- "The God of Last Moments"
- "Foiled"
- "Happy Thoughts" (Apex Digest issue #3)
- "Poor Man's Roses"
- "The Monster & Mrs. Blake" (for The Story Station)
- "Diary of a Ghost's Mistress" (Shroud magazine)
- "Hero Worship"
- "Pocket Full of Posey"
- "Red Lantern"
- "Savage Planet"
- "Unicorn Gold"
- "The Unicorn Hunter"
- "The Unicorn Tree"
- "The Way of the Restless"
- "The Witch of Black Mountain"
Anthologies edited
- Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy, co-edited with Steven Savile (Tor Books, 2006) ISBN 0-7653-1563-7
References
- ↑ Lamb, Joyce. "Alethea Kontis: Under the influence of 'Andre' Norton". USA Today. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ↑ Slater, Maggie. "An Interview with Alethea Kontis". Apex Magazine. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ↑ "Enchanted (review)". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ↑ "Enchanted (review)". Commonsensemedia. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ↑ "Dearest". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
- ↑ Cancre, Anton. "Book Review: Wild and Wistful, Dark and Dreaming – Author Alethea Kontis". HorrorNews.net. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
External links
- Official website
- AlphaOops! (official)
- "Small Magics" at Intergalactic Medicine Show
- "Blood & Water" at Intergalactic Medicine Show
- "White Girl" (non-fiction), Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2008
- Alethea Kontis at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Alethea Kontis at Library of Congress Authorities, with 9 catalog records
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