Bio:Danielle L. Parker

Ms. Parker has been a fan of the speculative fiction and mystery genres since she was a teenager reading illicit Andre Norton, A. E. van Vogt, and C. L. Moore paperbacks by flashlight on do-your-homework school nights. College, with a dual major in computer science and accounting and a so-far-inexplicable minor in German, followed. A subsequent career in information technology and telecommunications, where she worked on everything from submarines to police systems to giant call center implementations, didn't stop her enjoyment of the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, and classic horror. Her first novel, The Infinite Instant, won the 2009 EPPIE award for Best Science Fiction. She is now (as of June 2009) working on its sequel, The Nihilistic Mirror.

Ms. Parker’s first anthology, In a Pig’s Eye, featuring the tough adventurer Captain Blunt, will be published by Virtual Tales Summer 2009. It is planned to include “The Curse of the Dog-Faced Mummy”, “The Embrace of the Four-Armed Houri”, and “The Tower of Sighs”? Ms. Parker has completed her second novel, a dark far-future science fiction titled Galen the Deathless, and is in the process of finding a publisher. Galen the Deathless is a novel length expansion of an award-winning short story that first appeared in Bewildering Stories. She is also at work on its sequel, Galen the King. (That's as in Galen the Demon King, so the sequel will be lively).

Parker is also working on (as of June 2009) a new Elvidner anthology featuring the mysterious wizard Elian Tellen. The first novella in this series, Bats of Elvidner, was selected for the BWS Annual 2008 Retrospective. She is also a regular book reviewer and her reviews may be read at Bewildering Stories. In spite of all that writing and a serious near-sighted problem, she still manages to read, read, read!

Ms. Parker maintains a blog on her Amazon author page. She lives in Washington State.