Rosemary Edghill (born 1956) is an American writer and editor. Some of her work has appeared under her original name, eluki bes shahar (lower case intentional). Her primary genres are science fiction and

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, but she began by writing

Regency romance Regency romances are a subgenre of romance novels set during the period of the British Regency (1811–1820) or early 19th century. Rather than simply being versions of contemporary romance stories transported to a historical setting, Regency rom ...

novels. The publishers of her first novel felt that "Eluki Bes Shahar" (her legal name at the time) sounded insufficiently English to attract readers, so she adopted the pen-name Rosemary Edghill,What's in a Name? Interviewing Rosemary Edghill
from ''Vision: A Resource for Writers'', by Lazette Gifford, archived at sff.net which became her legal name in 2004. Her sister, a

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, writes as India Edghill.Authors: India Edghill
ccessed 2012-07-28 She cites some of her influences:

Too many to count. Damon Runyon and Mark Twain, for use of language. C. L. Moore and Eric Frank Russell, ditto. For storybuilding and sheer artfulness, John Le Carre. For language (again!) Margaret Atwood. For a great story, which is the First Thing in my book, John D. MacDonald, Peter O'Donnell, Ian Fleming, Leslie Charteris, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett (and we're back to the language thing again). Kipling. Poe. Clark Ashton Smith. Robert E. Howard. Robert A. Heinlein. Lovecraft. For that matter, I think I owe as much to the great editors of SF's silver age as to the writers, so here's to you: John W. Campbell, Groff Conklin, and Damon Knight.

Edghill has collaborated in writing fiction with

Andre Norton Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name ...

Mercedes Lackey Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels include i ...

,''Legacies,'' Lackey & Edghill
ccessed 2012-07-28/ref> and

Marion Zimmer Bradley Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel ''The Mists of Avalon'' an ...

. Her books with Andre Norton include ''Shadow of Albion'' and ''Leopard in Exile.'' Her books with Mercedes Lackey include ''Spirits White as Lightning'' and ''Mad Maudlin.'' Edghill lives in upstate New York with cats and

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s. She trains and shows her dogs in obedience competitions.

Bibliography

According to

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, her bibliography is as follows:

Regency Romances

* ''Turkish Delight'' (1987) * ''Two of a Kind'' (1988) * ''The Ill-Bred Bride'' (1990) * ''Fleeting Fancy'' (1993)

Hellflower series

The Hellflower series features Butterfly St Cyr, a female starpilot trying to make a living as a tramp cargo hauler, as she befriends Valijon Starbringer (or, as Butterfly calls him, "Tiggy Stardust") a teenage hellflower (slang for a mercenary) who is totally out of his depth. # ''Hellflower'' (1991) (reprinted in 2022 by

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, ) # ''Darktraders'' (1992) (reprinted in 2022 by

, ) # ''Archangel Blues'' (1993) (reprinted in 2022 by

, ) The three were collected in: ''Butterfly and Hellflower'' (1993); hardcover, omnibus ed., 640 pages, published by New York Guild America Books ()

Bast series

The Bast series features an amateur female detective who is a New York City Wiccan. They were collected in ''Bell, Book, and Murder''.Authors: Rosemary Edghill
ccessed 2012-07-28/ref> # ''Speak Daggers to Her'' (1994) # ''Book of Moons'' (1995) # ''The Bowl of Night'' (1996)

The Twelve Treasures

# ''The Empty Crown'' (SFBC Omnibus Edition of the three "Twelve Treasures" novels)(1997) # ''The Sword of Maiden's Tears'' (1994) # ''The Cup of Morning Shadows'' (1995) # ''The Cloak of Night and Daggers'' (1997)

Others

* '' King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow'' novelization (1992), in '' The King's Quest Companion''. * ''Smoke and Mirrors'' (1997) (not to be confused with ''Smoke and Mirrors'' (2005) by

Tanya Huff Tanya Sue Huff (born 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science fiction series. One of these, her '' Blood Books'' series, featuring detective Vicki Ne ...

) * ''Met by Moonlight'' (1998) * ''The Warslayer'' (2002) * ''Vengeance of Masks'' (2003) * ''Paying the Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Other Stories'' (2003) ; with

* ''Ghostlight'' (1995) * ''Witchlight'' (1996) * ''Gravelight'' (1997) * ''Heartlight'' (1998) ; with

Tom DeFalco Tom DeFalco (born June 26, 1950) is an American comic book writer and editor well known for his association with Marvel Comics, with long runs on ''Amazing Spider-Man'', ''Thor'', and ''Fantastic Four''. Career While in college, DeFalco "wrote fo ...

* ''Time's Arrow: The Future'' (X-Men & Spider-Man #3) (1998) ; with

* ''The Shadow of Albion'' (Carolus Rex, Bk 1) (1999) * ''Leopard in Exile'' (Carolus Rex, Bk 2) (2001) ; with

* ''Beyond World's End'' (2001) * ''Spirits White as Lightning'' (2001) * ''Mad Maudlin'' (2003) * ''Bedlam's Edge'' (2005) * ''Music to My Sorrow'' (Bedlam's Bard) (2005) *''Dead Reckoning'' (2012) * The Shadow Grail series *# ''Legacies'' (2010) *# ''Conspiracies'' (2011) *# ''Sacrifices'' (2013) *# ''Victories'' (2014)

Short fiction

* "The Ever-After" in ''

Dragon Magazine Dragon Magazine may refer to: * ''Dragon'' (magazine), an American magazine for ''Dungeons & Dragons'' players * ''Dragon Magazine'' (Fujimi Shobo), a Japanese light novel magazine {{disambig ...

'' (1989) and anthologized in ''A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic'' (1994) * "Child of Ocean" in ''Dragon Magazine'' (1991) * "Is Your Coworker a Space Alien?" (1994) * "The New Britomart" (1995) * "To Light Such a Candle" (1995)

References

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