Jessica Rydill

Jessica Rydill is a British Fantasy author from the West Country. She was born in 1959. She studied at King's College, Cambridge and the College of Law, working as a solicitor for 13 years. Her travels have provided some of the inspiration for her writing. She was a founder member of the Write Fantastic writers' group together with authors such as Juliet E. McKenna and Sarah Ash.

Her interests include collecting Asian ball-jointed dolls, Sasha dolls, myth, and East European music. Her short story My Brother Jonathan was short-listed for the Ian St James award in 1999 and she appears in The New Writer magazine Roll of Honour.^[1]

Her first novel Children of the Shaman was published by Orbit in 2001, and was short-listed for the Locus magazine best first novel in 2002.^[2] A sequel, The Glass Mountain, appeared in October 2002.^[3] A short story, The Anniversary, was published in an anthology printed by NewCon Press in 2010 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of The Write Fantastic.

In 2006, Rydill married Stephen Saunders, a writer and designer. Her sister Sarah Ash, author of the Tears of Artamon trilogy, is also a fantasy novelist.

References

1. ^ http://www.thenewwriter.com/RollOfHonour.htm
2. ^ Locus Awards 2002
3. ^ http://www.books-by-isbn.com/authors/jessica/rydill/

External links

• Interview at SFFWorld.com
• Jessica Rydill at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Name	Rydill, Jessica
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