Three Names of the Hidden God (4 page)

About the Author

Vera Nazarian
is a two-time Nebula Award® Finalist and a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She immigrated to the USA from the former USSR as a kid, sold her first story at 17, and has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, honorably mentioned in Year’s Best volumes, and translated into eight languages.

Vera made her novelist debut with the critically acclaimed
Dreams of the Compass Rose
, followed by
Lords of Rainbow
. Her novella
The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass
made the 2005 Locus Recommended Reading List. Her debut collection
Salt of the Air
contains the 2007 Nebula Award-nominated “The Story of Love.”

Recent work includes the 2008 Nebula Finalist novell
a
The Duke in His Castle
, science fiction collection
After the Sundial
(2010),
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
(2010), and three Jane Austen parodies,
Mansfield Park and Mummies
(2009),
Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons
(2010), and
Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy’s Dreadful Secret
(forthcoming), all part of her Supernatural Jane Austen Series.

After many years in Los Angeles, Vera now lives in a small town in Vermont. She uses her Armenian sense of humor and her Russian sense of suffering to bake
conflicted pirozhki and make art. In addition to being a writer, philosopher, and award-winning artist, she is also the publisher of Norilana Books.

Official website:

http://www.veranazarian.com/

Norilana Book
s:

http://www.norilana.com/

Twitter:

http://twitter.com/Norilana

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/VeraNazarian

Blogs:

http://www.inspiredus.com/

http
://urbangirlvermont.blogspot.com/

http://norilana.livejournal.com/

Goodreads:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/186145.Vera_Nazarian

LibraryThing:

http://www.librarything.com/author/nazarianvera

Shelfari:

http://www.shelfari.com/authors/a1628414/Vera-Nazarian/

Red Room:

http://www.redroom.com/author/vera-nazarian

SFF Net Newsgroup:

http://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=xover&group=sff.people.vera-nazarian

Austen Authors:

http://austenauthors.net/

Cover Art Details:

“The Great Ziggurat of Ur in 2007 at a visit of the US Army Defense Dept,” photo by Cherie A. Thurlby, 20 January 2007; “Eye makeup of a woman,” photo by Lupin, May 20, 2005; “Many crows in a dark tree at New Orleans Square in Disneyland,” photo by Jesse Weinstein, 1994; “Rook perched on telegraph pole,” photo by Evelyn Simak, June 11, 2009; “A flock of Red-billed Queleas at Tsavo East National Park, Kenya,” photo by Frédéric Salein, Toulouse, France, June 24, 2010; “Fluggänsemodell,” photo by Flohsand, April 11, 2011.

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