Alethea Kontis is an American writer of Teen & Young Adult Books,

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s and speculative fiction, primarily for children. She lived in Ashburn, Virginia and then in

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Selected works

Novels

* ''Enchanted'' The Woodcutter Sisters Book 1 (

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, 2012) 2012 Gelett Burgess Award Winner, 2015 Garden State Teen Book Award * ''Hero'' The Woodcutter Sisters Book 2 (HM Harcourt, 2013) * ''Dearest'' The Woodcutter Sisters Book 3 (HM Harcourt, 2015)"Dearest"
Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2014-02-09. * ''Trixter" The Trix Adventures Book 1 (Self Published, 2015) * ''Trix & the Faerie Queen'' The Trix Adventures Book 2 (Self Published, 2016) 2016 Dragon Award Finalist * ''Haven Kansas'' (Self Published, 2016) * ''The Truth About Cats And Wolves: A Nocturne Falls Universe story'' (Sugar Skull Books, 2017) * ''When Tinker Met Bell: A Nocturne Falls Universe story'' (Sugar Skull Books, 2017) 2018 Dragon Award Nominee * ''Besphinxed: A Nocturne Falls Universe story'' (Sugar Skull Books, 2018) 2019 Scribe Award Winner * ''Thieftess (Thursday Woodcutter)'' The Woodcutter Sisters Book 4 Release Date TBD * ''Fated (Wednesday Woodcutter)'' The Woodcutter Sisters Book 5 Release Date TBD * ''Endless (Tuesday Woodcutter)'' The Woodcutter Sisters Book 6 Release Date TBD * ''Countenance (Monday Woodcutter)'' The Woodcutter Sisters Book 7 Release Date TBD * ''Trix and the Fire Witch'' The Trix Adventures Book 3 Release Date TBD

Collections

* ''Beauty & Dynamite'' (

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, June 2008) – essays and poems * ''Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming: the worlds of Alethea Kontis'' (2013, Alliteration Ink) * ''Tales of Arilland (Fairy Stories from the Dark Wood)'' Books of Arilland Book 5 (Self Published, 2015) 2015 Gelett Burgess Award Winner * ''Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place'' (Ragnarok Publications, 2016) * ''Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling'' (Apex Book Company, 2016)

Non-fiction

* ''The Dark-Hunter Companion'', co-written with

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( St. Martin's Griffin, 2007) - guide to the

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Children's books

* ''AlphaOops!: The Day Z Went First'', illustrated by Bob Kolar (

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, 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) * ''Oodles of Doodles!: Ready-to-Read Level 1'', illus. Christophe Jacques, (Simon Spotlight, 2022)

Short stories

* "Sunday" (''Realms of Fantasy'', October 2006) * "Small Magics" (''Orson Scott Card's

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'', October 2006) * "Blood & Water" (''Orson Scott Card's

'', July 2008) (''Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered'', February 13, 2015, reprint) * "Clockwise" (''Orson Scott Card's

'', 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" (''

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'' 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" * "Messenger (Chapter 20 of Dearest) (2015) * "For Angels to Fly: A Short Story" (2016) * "Barefoot Bay: Fish Out of Water (Kindle Worlds Novella)" (2016)

Anthologies edited

* ''Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy'', co-edited with Steven Savile (

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, 2006) * ''Once Upon A Curse: 17 Dark Faerie Tales'' (Fiddlehead Press, 2016) ASIN B01G35DZAW

References

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