Ann Marston

Former Harper Collins fantasy author, Ann Marston, finalized a nine book agreement late last week with Five Rivers.
The agreement includes Marston’s popular Sword Series (Kingmaker’s Sword, The Western King, Broken Blade, Cloudbearer’s Shadow, King of Shadows and Sword and Shadow), a new novella for the series, tentatively titled Keylan’s Story, as well as another two, new, unrelated novels: A Still and Bitter Grave, and Diamonds in Black Sand.

Marston, who besides being an author, has worked as a teacher, a flight instructor, an airline pilot, airport manager and literacy coordinator, has also been writing most of her adult life. Together with her friend Barb Galler-Smith, she teaches writing fantasy at Grant McEwan University in Edmonton, and mentors up-and-coming writers in a writers’ group that grew out of the writing classes, and currently lives in Edmonton.

“I’m quite excited about this,” says Marston, citing Five Rivers’ commitment to keeping authors in publication in perpetuity, as well as their environmental mandate.

The re-launch of the Sword Series will take place late summer 2012 with the release of Keylan’s Story, to be quickly followed by the remainder of the books.