Sharon Shinn, author portrait
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Sharon Shinn

Sharon Shinn is a journalist who works for a trade magazine and is the author of the Shifting Circle novels. Her first novel, The Shape-Changer’s Wife, was a nominee for Locus’s Best First Fantasy Novel of 1995. She has won the William L. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, and was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has also received an RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award and won the 2010 RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has lived in the Midwest most of her life. Visit her website at sharonshinn.net.

Wrapt in Crystal
Heart of Gold
Jeweled Fire
Unquiet Land
The Turning Season
Royal Airs
The Shape of Desire
Still Life with Shape-shifter
Angels of Darkness
Troubled Waters
Never After
Quatrain
Gateway
Fortune and Fate
Reader and Raelynx
The Dream-Maker's Magic
Elemental Magic
General Winston's Daughter
Dark Moon Defender
The Truth-Teller's Tale
The Thirteenth House
Mystic and Rider
The Safe-Keeper's Secret
Angel-Seeker
Angelica
The Shape-Changer's Wife
Summers at Castle Auburn
Jenna Starborn
The Alleluia Files
Jovah's Angel
Archangel

Books

Wrapt in Crystal
Heart of Gold
Jeweled Fire
Unquiet Land
The Turning Season
Royal Airs
The Shape of Desire
Still Life with Shape-shifter
Angels of Darkness
Troubled Waters
Never After
Quatrain
Gateway
Fortune and Fate
Reader and Raelynx
The Dream-Maker's Magic
Elemental Magic
General Winston's Daughter
Dark Moon Defender
The Truth-Teller's Tale
The Thirteenth House
Mystic and Rider
The Safe-Keeper's Secret
Angel-Seeker
Angelica
The Shape-Changer's Wife
Summers at Castle Auburn
Jenna Starborn
The Alleluia Files
Jovah's Angel
Archangel

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