Born Teresa Ann Waller in Van Nuys, California, in 1949, she lived in the Los Angeles area until the age of 14, when her family moved to northern California. In high school, she spent her lunch hours in the school library, devouring one historical novel after another. At about that same time she discovered fantasy writers T. H. White, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, and science fiction writer Andre Norton, whose combined influence would inspire her to begin creating imaginary worlds of her own. She met her husband, John Edgerton, in 1971, when she was working as a Tarot reader at a local Renaissance faire, and he was part of a Society for Creative Anachronism troupe putting on demonstrations of medieval tourney combat. They have four children. She and her husband live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her interest in medieval society, alchemy, magic, and Celtic mythology led her to begin writing the Green Lion Trilogy. The first book of the series, Child of Saturn, was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award. It is set in Celydonn, a fictional Celtic realm.
After completing this trilogy, her interest turned from epic fantasy to the pseudo-sciences of the 18th century, which resulted in the steampunkishfantasy of mannersGoblin Moon. Other books and short stories followed.
However, publication of The Queen's Necklace didn't produce enough sales to satisfy her publishers, and for a time she was unable to renew her publishing contract. In 2004 she was offered the chance to relaunch under the pseudonym Madeline Howard, and has since started a new trilogy, Rune of the Unmaking, with the first novel, The Hidden Stars.
Published worksedit
Novelsedit
The Queen's Necklace (2001)
Celydonnedit
The Green Lion trilogy (the first Celydonn trilogy)edit
Child of Saturn (1989)
The Moon in Hiding (1989)
The Work of the Sun (1990)
Second Celydonn trilogyedit
The Castle of the Silver Wheel (1993)
The Grail and the Ring (1994)
The Moon and the Thorn (1995)
Mask and Dagger duologyedit
Goblin Moon (1991)
The Gnome's Engine (1991)
The Rune of Unmaking series (writing as Madeline Howard)edit
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