Rachel Aaron biography

Rachel Aaron is a US fantasy author who writes the Legend of Eli Monpress series for Orbit Books. She was born and raised in Atlanta and currently lives in Athens, Georgia. She writes full time and loves reading fantasy, Romance and Science Fiction.

"I had the idea for a magical system where everything had a spirit years and years ago. So long ago, in fact, that I can’t actually remember the genesis. Of course, once I had the idea, it wouldn’t shut up. I just kept thinking about talking tables and chatty winds and so forth, but I didn’t have a book to put it in at the time, so I filed the idea away. Then, a few years after that, Eli’s character walked into my head and I knew the spirit world idea would be perfect for him. I mean, what better world for an overly charming thief than a world where charm is magic? So Eli started talking to the prison door and that was that."
Rachel Aaron, when asked what led her to use spirits as a basis for her Eli Monpress series

April 2nd 2012 interview with Rachel Aaron

Rachel Aaron is the fantasy author behind the Legend of Eli Monpress, a series that has been read and thoroughly enjoyed by Fantasy Book Reviewer Jasper de Joode. Jasper caught up with Rachel in April 2012 and asked h [...]

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