Anna Korra'tiThe very first thing Angela Korra’ti ever wrote, at age 8, was a short story about a girl spirited away to rule over the leprechauns for a day. She progressed rapidly to pretending to take notes in class when she was actually writing novels, and writing fanfic before she had any idea what fanfic was! And music has been a part of her life almost as long, thanks to six years playing flute and piccolo in school band and an adulthood dabbling in guitar, bouzouki, and mandolin; in anything she writes, music is likely to make an appearance.

Angela (Anna the Piper to her friends) lives in Kenmore, Washington, along with her partner and housemates, two cats, two birds, and a whole heck of a lot of computers and musical instruments. And despite the fact that she is a mild-mannered former employee of a major metropolitan newspaper, rumors that she is a superhero are exaggerated. (Even if she did pull the door off a refrigerator.)

Faerie Blood is Anna’s first professionally published novel. Come say hi and let her know what you thought at angelakorrati.com.

Faerie Blood

Kendis Thompson is an average, ordinary software tester in Seattle. She has great friends, great housemates, a cat she loves, and her beloved violin. The aunt who raised her lives nearby and is always ready to share her love and comfort.

Then one day, Kendis goes biking and is attacked by a troll. In Seattle. A Real. Live. Troll. She fights back, but she’s no match for a creature made mostly of stone. When she screams for help, it arrives in the form of Christopher MacSimidh, who gives the troll what for—until the troll gets the upper hand.

And then everything starts going wrong.

There are faerie in Seattle, and Kendis is a target. Her mother was a faerie princess and her father was human. She didn’t know, since both died when she was a young child, but now her magic is starting to show up and both courts are determined to get something out of her. But what? and why?

With the help of her best friend, Jude; the Warder of Seattle, an old woman named Milly; her Aunt Aggie; and her new friend Christopher, Kendis is going to hold her own against both courts and all the trolls, sprites and assorted other creatures they can bring against her. Probably.

Though she didn’t count on the fairy biker gang, or the elven Elvis impersonator.

Defiance

What happens when three very talented authors decide to set a short story in in the same time and place? Three very different, but entertaining stories about women who survive. Laura Anne Gilman (bestselling author of The Retriever series), Joely Sue Burkhart, and Angela Korra’ti visit the American Civil War in our short story collection Defiance. Click here to read an excerpt.

In “Finder’s Keeper” Gilman’s heroine is a finder, but never until now has she been given visions of something lost before someone asks her to find it. What she finds, though, is much more than she expected. She begins to find herself.

In “The Blood of the Land”, Angela Korra’ti takes us on a journey. Two slaves escape with the help of the Underground Railroad, only to find themselves surrounded by men who would force them to return. Our heroine must choose to trust others if she’s going to be free.

Joely Sue Burkhart’s “Storms as She Walks” is about a woman who disguises herself as a man to fight in the Civil War, and Burkhart is unflinching in her story of what might happen to a woman who made that choice, but her heroine, too, comes out the other side of her adventure with a new clarity about her self and her purpose, and it’s her courage that earns for her a true happily ever after.