Katherine Fisher Clarke is the crazy cat lady, crafter and writer your mother never quite managed to warn you about. She finds time to bake a mean lasagna and wicked chocolate cakes in between stories as well as knitting for friends and for charity. When not coming up with wild characters or strange stories, she lives in her suburban Maryland home with her two lifemates, her two kids, four cats, a parakeet and a small horde of friends who visit on the weekends. Kat has been writing as a pastime for thirty years. She happily blames her seventh grade English teacher for starting it all with an assignment on Shakespearean sonnets and her freshman English teacher for encouraging her by giving her a copy of the Lord of the Rings for Christmas. Kat is a proud member of the Maryland Writer's Association. While Dragon's Fire is her first book in this series, she is already hip-deep in editing the second book, and working on the other three. There are also more stories coming down the pike in the universe, involving two wonderful collaborators on stories set in the universe's future as well as its past.

She hopes you enjoy these stories as much as she enjoyed crafting them!.