Eileen Kernaghan

[Rosemary]

Not sure if all of this authors books are for YA. Most of them seem to be, unfortunately I have been unable to check this myself.

I do hope there are some good titles in this article with will appeal to YA... Eileen Kernaghan

Eileen's award-winning "Grey Isles" trilogy is set in bronze-age Europe and is based on the origins of Stonehenge. Journey to Aprilioth (1980) won a silver medal for original paperback fiction from The West Coast Review of Books. Songs from the Drowned Lands (1983) won the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award, while the third book in the series, The Sarsen Witch, was shortlisted for the same award. Eileen also co-authored Walking After Midnight (Berkley 1990), a nonfiction book on reincarnation, based on a documentary by a Vancouver filmmaker. Her latest adult historical fantasy is Winter on the Plain of Ghosts: a novel of Mohenjo-daro from Flying Monkey Press

Dance of the Snow Dragon, a young adult fantasy novel with a Tibetan Buddhist background, was published in 1995 by Thistledown Press. Her other YA novels, also from Thistledown, are The Snow Queen (2000) and The Alchemist's Daughter, September 2004.
Eileen's poems and short stories have appeared in many North American publications, both mainstream and speculative, including PRISM international, On Spec, Tesseracts, TransVersions, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Northern Stars and Ark of Ice: Canadian FutureFictions. She is one-fifth of the poetry group Quintet, who recently published their first collection, Quintet: Themes & Variations.
See BC Bookworld's Bio of Eileen Kernaghan.
*Possible Spoilers*
The Snow Queen is available from amazon.com and other major online bookstores, www.booktown.ca, White Dwarf Books, Banyen Books, Vancouver Kidsbooks, and other independent Canadian bookstores; and from the publisher, Thistledown Press.
"Snowdrifts rose to the windows of the Snow-Queen's palace. The tall arched panes glittered with a wintry, ice-blue light. The great doors of crystal and silver stood ajar, unguarded; a powdering of snow filmed the milk-white marble tiles of the courtyard within.
No hearthfires burned in those vast, chill rooms -- only the cold and eerie flames of the aurora borealis, blazing down through crystal skylights, flickering across the icy floors. They could hear the faint glassy tinkle of chandeliers, the whistling of the wind down endless, empty halls. There was a kind of music, too -- high, keening, crystalline notes endlessly, piercingly sustained, like tones struck on a goblet's rim. The sound was like a knifeblade in the base of Gerda's skull. She clapped her hands over her ears to shut it out.
Nothing had prepared Gerda for a palace so magnificent --- and so utterly devoid of warmth and comfort. No one human could live in this place, she thought. And she shuddered at a sudden chilling intimation: living here, what might Kai have become?
Tears of weakness, exhaustion, desolation, leaked from her eyes, and froze into beads of crystal on her cheeks. The cold had crept into her muscles and bones; had wrapped itself round her heart."

[Teresa Edgerton]

I read her trilogy. The first one I read, Songs from the Drowned Lands, I liked by far the best -- the others just didn't strike any chords with me.

Wasn't aware of The Snow Queen or The Alchemist's Daughter but they certainly sound interesting. The Andersen fairy tale is one of my life-long favorites, and anything with alchemy in the title grabs my attention. Thanks for pointing them out, Rosemary.

[Rosemary]

You are welcome...Actually I thought The Dance of the Snow Dragon and also The Snow Queen sounded like good reads...even for those not quite so YA anymore !!

[Alia]

Her bibliography:

Series
Grey Isles
1. Journey to Aprilioth (1980)
2. Songs from the Drowned Lands (1983)
3. The Sarsen Witch (1989)

Novels
Walking After Midnight (1990)
Dance of the Snow Dragon (1995)
The Snow Queen (2000)
Winter On the Plain of Ghosts: A Novel of Mohenjo-daro (2004)
The Alchemists Daughter (2004) (with R P Macintyre)

Non fiction
The Upper Left-Hand Corner: A Writer's Guide for the Northwest (1986)

Anthologies containing stories by Eileen Kernaghan
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)

Short stories
Dragon-Rain (1995)

[junny25]

Hi

[GOLLUM]

Sounds interesting, espcecially the reference to alchemy.