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Kim Falconer (born 1954 in Santa Cruz, California) is an Australian author of YA and adult Speculative Fiction, living in New South Wales. She grew up on the once family-owned Wilder Ranch,[1] and emigrated to Australia in 1981. Active as a professional writer of fantasy since 2009,[2] her two series with Harpercollins Australia are Quantum Enchantment and Quantum Encryption.[3] Her latest urban fantasy was published by Harlequin Books Australia.[4] Falconer has written a new, three book YA series under the pen name of A. K. Wilder - coming out 5 January 2021 with Entangled Teen[5] in the USA.
Falconer trains in Iaido, the Japanese sword, to better choreograph her fight scenes.[6] She claims that each of her stories begins with a grain of truth.[7] Falconer is also an astrologer, running GoodVibeAstrology.com[8] and has completed a Master of Arts degree in writing from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia in 2014. She was awarded the 2014 Top Graduate Prize for highest achieving graduate in the Master of Arts (Writing), the 2014 Top Student in a Unit Prize for PWR70003 Script Adaptation: Stage, Screen and Multimedia, and the 2014 Top Student in a Unit Prize for PWR80001 Critical and Creative Practices: The Writerly Identity.[9][10] She writes young adult fiction under the pen name A. K. Wilder.[11][12][13][14]
Family
editHer son, Aaron Briggs has done the cover art for her Quantum Encryption series.[15]
Works
editNovels
The Bone Throwers - Kim Falconer writing YA Fantasy as A. K. Wilder
- Crown of Bones (January 5, 2021)
- Curse of Shadows (December, 6, 2022)
- Book Three (TBA)
- The Blood in the Beginning (July 2016)
- Path of the Stray (August 2010)
- Road to the Soul (March 2011)
- Journey by Night (September 2011)
- Tatsania's Gift (September 2012)
- The Spell of Rosette (January 2009)
- Arrows of Time (August 2009)
- Strange Attractors (February 2010)
Anthologies
- Blood and Water in Vampires Gone Wild-Supernatural Underground (January 2014)
Astrology text
- Astrology & Aptitude (2nd ed, 2005)
Short stories
- Wolf Being (2010)
References
edit- ^ California Reiki Archived 20 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine: Interview with Kim Falconer Retrieved 15 August 2011
- ^ Kim Falconer: HarperCollins Publishers Australia. Retrieved 15 August 2011
- ^ "Kim Falconer | Harper Collins Australia". Harper Collins Australia. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ "Harlequin Books: Kim Falconer". harlequinbooks.com.au. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ "Entangled Teen". Entangled Teen. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- ^ California Reiki. "Hara: Author Kim Falconer on Iaido and The Way of the Peaceful Warrior – The Art of the Samurai". California Reiki Website. The One Center. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ Kim Falconer's How to Write What You Don't Know: Voyager Online. Retrieved 15 August 2011
- ^ GoodVibeAstrology.com. "GoodVibeAstrology.com". goodvibeastrology.com. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ "Kim Falconer | Swinburne University of Technology - Academia.edu". swinburne.academia.edu. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Falconer, Kim. "About Kim Falconer". Retrieved 15 August 2011.
- ^ "AKWilder". AKWilder. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ^ "Our Authors". Entangled Teen. 17 August 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ^ "Crown of Bones". goodreads.com. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ "Crown of Bones by A.K. Wilder". Entangled Countdowns. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ Cover illustration by Aaron Briggs: Browse inside Road to the Soul, page 4. Retrieved 15 August 2011