Our Lady of the Islands

About Jay LakeShannon Page

Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and spent her early years on a back-to-the-land commune in northern California. A childhood without television gave her a great love of the written word. At seven she wrote her first book an illustrated adventure starring her cat Cleo. Sadly that story is out of print but her work has appeared in Clarkesworld Interzone Fantasy Black Static Tor.com the Proceedings of the 2002 International Oral History Association Congress and many anthologies including the Australian Shadows Award-winning Grants Pass and The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk. She also regularly publishes articles and personal essays on Medium.com including the widely read I Was a Trophy Wife. Books include The Queen and The Tower first book in The Nightcraft Quartet; Eel River; the collection Eastlick and Other Stories; Orcas Intrigue Orcas Intruder and Orcas Investigation the first three books in the cozy mystery series The Chameleon Chronicles in collaboration with Karen G. Berry under the pen name Laura Gayle; and Our Lady of the Islands co-written with the late Jay Lake. Our Lady received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014 and was a finalist for the Endeavour Award. Forthcoming books include A Sword in the Sun (Nightcraft book 2); a sequel to Our Lady; and more Orcas mysteries. Edited books include the anthology Witches Stitches & Bitches and the essay collection The Usual Path to Publication. Shannon is a longtime yoga practitioner has no tattoos (but she did recently get a television) and lives on lovely remote Orcas Island Washington with her husband author and illustrator Mark Ferrari. Visit her at www.shannonpage.net. Jay Lake lived in Portland Oregon where he worked on multiple writing and editing projects. His 2007 book Mainspring received a starred review in Booklist. His short fiction appeared regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer Endeavour Award and was a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.