Leona Wisoker's debut series, Children of the Desert, launched in 2010 with Secrets of the Sands, published by Mercury Retrograde Press.
For a list of interviews with and by Leona, and a list of her current guest blog posts, please click here.
Contact Leona by email (leona at leonawisoker dot com) or through snail mail (Leona Wisoker, P.O. Box 5631, Williamsburg, VA 23188).
Leona's short stories have been published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Michael Hanson's Sha'daa: Pawns, and the DarkQuest anthology Galactic Creatures, among other places. She teaches writing classes at The Muse Writers Center of Norfolk, VA, writes and edits for the Sleeping Hedgehog, and blogs about living a creative life at The Writing of a Wisoker on the Loose.
Past and current careers include, in no particular order, filing clerk, CAD jockey, graphic designer, massage therapist, editor, computer teacher, and clothing retail. Current fixations involve a search for the perfect cup of coffee and a hopeless quest to keep the garden weeded.
She lives in eastern Virginia with her husband and two large dogs, all of whom routinely try-and usually fail-to drag her away from the computer for long, rambling walks.
Past and current careers include, in no particular order, filing clerk, CAD jockey, graphic designer, massage therapist, editor, computer teacher, and clothing retail. Current fixations involve a search for the perfect cup of coffee and a hopeless quest to keep the garden weeded.
She lives in eastern Virginia with her husband and two large dogs, all of whom routinely try-and usually fail-to drag her away from the computer for long, rambling walks.
Secrets of the Sands received critical praise from such diverse outlets as Library Journal, SF Site, SF Revu, Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews, Green Man Review, among others, and from notable authors C.J. Henderson, Michael Sullivan, and Janine Cross. Guardians of the Desert added to that list Tamora Pierce and C.J. Cherryh, while continuing to draw praise from the previous reviewers. The third in the series, Bells of the Kingdom, launched at MarsCon 2013 of Williamsburg, VA, and the fourth, Fires of the Desert, is due to launch at RavenCon 2013 of Richmond, VA.
