Leona Wisoker got her start as a writer when she was eight years old, with a story about all the vacumn cleaners in the world breaking down at the same time. Her family made the deadly mistake of praising the effort, and have had to wade through piles of her work ever since. She also learned from that experience how to successfully use the excuse of writing to avoid housework, which has stood her in good stead over the years.

Leona's work is fueled equally by coffee and conviction; she researches erratically and eclectically, often choosing subjects alphabetically rather than by subject or author. This has led her to read about aardvarks, Buddhism, child-warriors, and many more bizarre subjects.

Her debut novel, Secrets of the Sands, the first of the four book series Children of the Desert, has been praised by such diverse outlets as Library Journal, SF Site, SF Revu, Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews, Green Man Review, and by notable authors C.J. Henderson, Michael Sullivan, and Janine Cross. Guardians of the Desert adds to that list Tamora Pierce and C.J. Cherryh, while continuing to draw praise from the previous reviewers.

Her short stories have appeared in Futures: Fire to Fly Magazine (now known as Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine), Anotherealm.com, Alienskin.com, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine; look for that list to expand in 2011 and 2012, including an appearance in Michael Hanson's forthcoming Sha'Daa anthology. She is a reviewer for Green Man Review and its spinoff, The Sleeping Hedgehog.

For a list of interviews with and by Leona, and a list of her current guest blog posts, please click here.