Author Introduction: Kari Sperring
Feb. 4th, 2011 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpskewedthroneAs part of the promo for the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar release, I figured I’d highlight all of the contributors to the anthology individually. And while we’re at it, run a contest as well! So here’s the deal, to enter the contest you have to either friend the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
afterhoursurbar community here on LiveJournal OR you have to like the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar Facebook page (search for the title of the anthology to find the page). If you do both, you’re entered into the contest twice! The contest will end March 31st, 2011. Prizes will include copies of the contributors books (sometimes entire trilogies), After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar M&Ms, and perhaps other prizes. They will be awarded by random drawing from those who’ve liked or friended the appropriate pages. If you’ve already friended or liked the pages, then you’re already entered into the contest! Find out more about the anthology at its website!
And now for the sixth contributor: Kari Sperring (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
la_marquise_de_)! Kari’s contribution to the anthology is the short story The Fortune-Teller Makes Her Will, which is set in Paris, France, and features a servant to a mistress who literally stumbled into the Ur-bar and discovers the help she needs through Gilgamesh and the magic of the bar. Here’s the official description:
"The Fortune-Teller Makes Her Will" by Kari Sperring: Personal maid to the king’s favorite mistress by day, and secret satirist by night, Thais will sacrifice everything to save a friend who has been accused of witchcraft.
I met Kari Sperring in person at Worldcon in Montreal . . . THIS I remember well. *grin* I believe we were both volunteering at the SFWA table, and my shift was starting and hers ending, or vice versa. I’d already taken an interest in her first book, Living with Ghosts, and everyone will be glad to hear that her second should be out shortly. I know I’m waiting for it, rather impatiently. Here’s her author bio from the anthology:
Kari Sperring grew up dreaming of joining the musketeers and saving France, only to discover that the company had been disbanded in 1776. Disappointed, she became a historian instead and as Kari Maund has written and published five books and co-authored (with Phil Nanson) a book on the history and real people behind her favourite novel, The Three Musketeers. Her first novel Living with Ghosts was published in 2009 by DAW books and she has recently completed her second. "The Fortune-Teller Makes Her Will" was inspired by the Poisons’ Affair that rocked the French Court in the 1670s and by a beautiful named pair of earrings by jeweler Elise Matheson. She’s British and lives in Cambridge, England, with her partner Phil and three very determined cats, who guarantee that everything she writes will have been thoroughly sat upon. Her website can be found at www.karisperring.com.
We’ll be giving away a copy of Living With Ghosts as one of the prizes in the contest mentioned above, of course.
afterhoursurbar community here on LiveJournal OR you have to like the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar Facebook page (search for the title of the anthology to find the page). If you do both, you’re entered into the contest twice! The contest will end March 31st, 2011. Prizes will include copies of the contributors books (sometimes entire trilogies), After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar M&Ms, and perhaps other prizes. They will be awarded by random drawing from those who’ve liked or friended the appropriate pages. If you’ve already friended or liked the pages, then you’re already entered into the contest! Find out more about the anthology at its website!And now for the sixth contributor: Kari Sperring (
la_marquise_de_)! Kari’s contribution to the anthology is the short story The Fortune-Teller Makes Her Will, which is set in Paris, France, and features a servant to a mistress who literally stumbled into the Ur-bar and discovers the help she needs through Gilgamesh and the magic of the bar. Here’s the official description:"The Fortune-Teller Makes Her Will" by Kari Sperring: Personal maid to the king’s favorite mistress by day, and secret satirist by night, Thais will sacrifice everything to save a friend who has been accused of witchcraft.
I met Kari Sperring in person at Worldcon in Montreal . . . THIS I remember well. *grin* I believe we were both volunteering at the SFWA table, and my shift was starting and hers ending, or vice versa. I’d already taken an interest in her first book, Living with Ghosts, and everyone will be glad to hear that her second should be out shortly. I know I’m waiting for it, rather impatiently. Here’s her author bio from the anthology:
Kari Sperring grew up dreaming of joining the musketeers and saving France, only to discover that the company had been disbanded in 1776. Disappointed, she became a historian instead and as Kari Maund has written and published five books and co-authored (with Phil Nanson) a book on the history and real people behind her favourite novel, The Three Musketeers. Her first novel Living with Ghosts was published in 2009 by DAW books and she has recently completed her second. "The Fortune-Teller Makes Her Will" was inspired by the Poisons’ Affair that rocked the French Court in the 1670s and by a beautiful named pair of earrings by jeweler Elise Matheson. She’s British and lives in Cambridge, England, with her partner Phil and three very determined cats, who guarantee that everything she writes will have been thoroughly sat upon. Her website can be found at www.karisperring.com.
We’ll be giving away a copy of Living With Ghosts as one of the prizes in the contest mentioned above, of course.
