Joanne Bertin (born January 1, 1953) is an American writer of

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

and

fantasy novel Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fa ...

s and short stories that feature dragons as a recurring motif.

Early life

Joanne Bertin was born in 1953 in

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. She lived there only briefly, as her family returned to their home in

Stamford, Connecticut Stamford () is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut, outside of Manhattan. It is Connecticut's second-most populous city, behind Bridgeport. With a population of 135,470, Stamford passed Hartford and New Haven in population as of the 2020 ...

. Bertin lived most of her life in various towns in Connecticut.

Career

Bertin held a variety of jobs including factory worker, coloring comic books when the color separation was done by hand, and working as an assistant goatherd on a dairy farm. At the time of writing the FAQ page for her now-defunct website, she had worked for twenty years in libraries. She does not make a living from writing, but pursues it because of personal pleasure and a desire to entertain others. However, her ambition is to quit her day job and move to writing full-time. Bertin's first publication was in 1995 when her short story ''Dragonlord's Justice'' was submitted for an anthology of dragon stories and accepted. Her first novel, '' The Last Dragonlord'' was published in 1998. The sequel, ''

Dragon and Phoenix "Dragon and Phoenix" is the second of the Dragonlord series by Joanne Bertin and was published in 1999. It takes place in a world of truehumans, truedragons, and dragonlords - beings which have both human and dragon souls and can change from hum ...

'', was published the following year. The last book in the trilogy, '' Bard's Oath'', was released on November 27, 2012.

''Dragonlord'' series

*''Dragonlord's Justice (Short Story)'' (1995) *'' The Last Dragonlord'' (1998) *''

'' (1999) *'' Bard's Oath'' (November 2012)

References

External links

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Joanne Bertin

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