Bio:Jessica Rydill

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Jessica Rydill is a fantasy author from Bath. Born in 1959, she attended Bath High School and St Paul's Girls' School. Having read English at Cambridge, she studied Law and qualified as a solicitor, practising from 1989 until 1998. She is a founder member of the Write Fantastic writers' group, and sister of Sarah Ash. 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. Her first novel, Children of the Shaman, was published by Orbit in 2001, and short-listed for Locus Best First Novel in 2002. A sequel, The Glass Mountain, appeared in 2002. A short story, The Anniversary, was published in an anthology by NewCon Press in 2010. The third novel in the series, Malarat, was published in eBook format in May 2013. Both Children of the Shaman and The Glass Mountain are now eBooks, having been revised and reissued in 2014.