Donita K. Paul

Donita K. Paul
Born	November 20, 1950 (1950-11-20) (age 60) Lawrence, Kansas
Occupation	Christian Author
Nationality	American
Period	1999 - present
Genres	Christian fiction
Notable work(s)	DragonKeeper Chronicles
Influences Max Lucado C. S. Lewis Patricia Veryan
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Donita Kathleen Paul (born November 20, 1950^[1]) is a best-selling contemporary Christian fiction novelist. Best known for her fantasy DragonKeeper Chronicles series, she won a finalist medal in the Christy Awards for the first installment of the DragonKeeper Chronicles, DragonSpell.^[2] She has also written romances and juvenile novels under the name Kathleen Paul. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Paul now lives in eastern Colorado.

Biography

Paul studied elementary education in college as preparation for being a mother, but she soon became a single mother^[3] and worked as an elementary-school teacher.^[2] It wasn't until a flesh-eating bacterium in her leg^[3] put her in the hospital for 21 days that she seriously turned to writing at her mother's urging.^[2] She submitted a romance novel she had written for her thirteen-year-old daughter, and it was published.^[3]

Writing career

Paul began writing as a teen. She and three or four friends would write during the week and share their stories at a Friday night slumber party.^[2] She took the Institute of Children’s Literature correspondence course when her children were preschoolers,^[2] and she later wrote a romance novel for her thirteen-year-old daughter,^[3] but she didn’t settle down to writing until she got an infection in her leg that ultimately ended her school-teaching career.^[2]

After her initial success writing romances, Paul tried fantasy when her mother challenged her to write "something different, bigger, deeper".^[3] The eventual result was the DragonKeeper Chronicles.

Bibliography

DragonKeeper Chronicles Series

Title	Year	Summary
DragonSpell	2004	Former slave Kale Allerion unintentionally joins a band of adventurers on her way to train for royal service. Now she must help recover a dragon egg stolen by an evil, terrible wizard.
DragonQuest	2005	Now an apprentice dragonkeeper, Kale and a young man named Bardon must again thwart the evil wizard Risto's plans to use dragon-power for conquest.
DragonKnight	2006	Before becoming a knight, Bardon undertakes a quest to free magically imprisoned knights, one of whom may be Kale's long-lost father. Bardon and Kale also form a romantic relationship.
DragonFire	2007	Kale and Bardon, now husband and wife must stop husband-and-wife wizards devastating the land in a contest for supremacy.
DragonLight	2008	With the evil apparently banished from the land, a new religious movement arises—but is it a blessing or a curse? Also, waves of tiny but destructive dragons may herald the awakening of an ancient, unstoppable dragon.

Chiril Chronicles Series

Title	Year	Summary
Dragons Of Chiril	2009	Tipper, a young emerlindian who's responsible for the upkeep of her family's estate during her sculptor father's absence, discovers that her actions have unbalanced the whole foundation of her world, and she must act quickly to undo the calamitous threat. With the help of some unlikely companions—including the nearly 5-foot-tall (1.5 m) parrot Beccaroon and the miraculous Wulder—she sets out to save her father and her world.
Dragons of the Valley	2010	With an invasion of her country imminent, Tipper Schope is drawn into a mission to keep three important statues from falling into the enemy’s clutches. Her friend, the artist Bealomondore, helps her execute the plan, and along the way he learns to brandish a sword rather than a paintbrush. To restore their country, Tipper, Bealomondore, and their party must hide the statues in the Valley of the Dragons and find a way to defeat the invading army.
Dragons of the Watch	2011	n/a

Retitled Novel

Beginning with the second printing, The Vanishing Sculptor is now known as Dragons Of Chiril.

Romance Novels

• Escape (1999)
• To See His Way (2000)
• The Heart of a Child (2000)
• Out in the Real World (2001)
• City Dreams (2001)
• Christmas Letters (2001)
• Woven Hearts (2002)
• Kaleidoscope (2005)

References

1. ^ ("Blog interview". http://ansric.blogspot.com/2008/07/donita-k-paul-interview.html. )
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f} ("Novel Journey Interview". http://noveljourney.blogspot.com/2006/04/author-interview-donita-k-paul.html. )
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} ("Christian Fandom Interview". http://www.swcp.com/~christfn/oli-dkp.html. )

External links

• Official site

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Name	Paul, Donita K.
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Date of birth	November 20, 1950
Place of birth	Lawrence, Kansas
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