Paula Volsky

Paula Volsky is an American fantasy author.

Biography

Born in Fanwood, New Jersey, she majored in English literature at liberal arts college Vassar in New York State. At the University of Birmingham, England, she received an M.A. in Shakespearian studies. Before writing fantasy, she sold real estate and also worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.[1]

After releasing novels regularly for nearly twenty years, Volsky published no new work for nearly a decade, even though Locus had reported her sale of a "new fantasy trilogy" to Bantam Books in mid-2000.[2] After a long delay, the publisher announced that the final volume had been completed, and that it would issue the books beginning in late 2011.[3]

Terri Windling described Volsky as "a reliably entertaining storyteller."[4] All her novels written under her own name take place within the same fictional world, often with fantasy plot-lines inspired by historical events.

Bibliography

Novels
  • The Curse of the Witch-Queen. Ballantine, 1982. ISBN 0-345-29520-X
  • Sorcerer series
    • The Sorcerer's Lady. Ace, 1986. ISBN 0-441-77533-0
    • The Sorcerer's Heir. Ace, 1988. ISBN 0-441-77231-5
    • The Sorcerer's Curse. Ace, 1989. ISBN 0-441-44458-X
  • The Luck of Relian Kru. Ace, 1987. ISBN 0-441-83816-2
  • Illusion. London: Gollancz, 1991. ISBN 0-575-05138-8
  • The Wolf of Winter. Bantam Spectra, 1993. ISBN 0-553-37210-6
  • The Gates of Twilight. Bantam Spectra, 1996. ISBN 0-553-37394-3
  • The White Tribunal. Bantam Spectra, 1997. ISBN 0-553-37846-5
  • The Grand Ellipse. Bantam Spectra, 2000. ISBN 0-553-10804-2
  • The Veiled Isles Trilogy
    • The Traitor's Daughter. Bantam Spectra, 2011. ISBN 0-553-58380-8 (as Paula Brandon)
    • The Ruined City. Bantam Spectra, 2012. ISBN 978-0-553-58382-3 (as Paula Brandon)
    • The Wanderers. Bantam Spectra, 2012. ISBN 978-0-553-58383-0 (as Paula Brandon)

Short stories
  • 'The Traditions of Karzh' in Songs of the Dying Earth, ed. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, Subterranean Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59606-213-9
  • 'Giant Rat of Sumatra' in Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-15639-1
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gollark: I wish you precisely 2798124.124 luck units.
gollark: Probably perception of coolness is partly grounded in social status (or something like that) of the thing, and harder to obtain (e.g. expensive) things have more of that.
gollark: Modded clients don't actually let you read the *messages*, so I'm sure they're technically able to make it work sensibly.
gollark: I personally think that if Discord do not want people seeing things, they shouldn't be sent to clients.

References
  1. Volsky, Paula The White Tribunal New York, Bantam Books, 1997
  2. "People and Publishing", Locus, August 2000, p.12
  3. "SciFi & Fantasy | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  4. "Summation 1994: Fantasy," The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection, p.xix
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