Valerie Estelle Frankel wrote her first novel at age 16, although she's been a storyteller since she was 5 or so. Currently, she's earning her master's in creative writing. She has been editor for four college magazines, but reserves her first love for her fantasy world of Calithwain. Valerie is submitting her latest novels to publishers at the moment. Her work has appeared in the anthology Legends of the Pendragon, as well as Strange Horizons, Jewish Community News, Zealot, Spellbound, SF Reader, Marsdust and other magazines. To glance over chapters from Valerie's novels, as well as interactive maps of her magical world, visit her website at www.calithwain.com.

Reviews by Valerie include:

Star Edwards
• The Emerald Crossing

Arlene Faith
• Spirit of the Celtic Violin

Kevin Fisher
• Serenity

Hammy Hamilton
• The Moneymusk

Steve Holloway
• Next Stop, Seelie Court

Rahel Jaskow
• Day of Rest

Ilona Knopfler
• Some Kind of Wonderful

Riley Lee
• Music for Zen Meditation

Oisin Mac Diarmada
• Ar an Bhfidil

New Budapest Orpheum Society
• Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

Abby Newton
• Crossing to Scotland

Stephen Schwartz
• Wicked

Simirillion
• Of Unicorns & Jasmine: A Lover's Tale

Kathleen Swann
• Seasons of Serenity, with Ken Kaufman

various artists
• Cajun Music: The Essential Collection
• Dreamland: World Lullabies & Soothing Songs
• The Hidden Gate: Jewish Music Around the World
• The Rough Guide to Native American Music
• Zydeco: The Essential Collection

Hanna Yaffe
• Lullabies from Jerusalem

Robert Asprin
• M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action/Sweet Myth-tery of Life

Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Priestess of Avalon

James Lincoln Collier
• The Empty Mirror

Sara Douglass
• The Troy Game#1: Hades' Daughter

Catherine Fisher
• Snow-walker

Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren, editors
• Pharaoh Fantastic

Daniel Grotta
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth

Christine Hoeflich
• What Everyone Believed: A Memoir of Intuition & Awakening

Mary Hooper
• Petals in the Ashes

Lorna Joy Knox
• Flames of a Rose
• Two Tales of Mystery

Mercedes Lackey
• Exile's Honor
• Exile's Valor

Catherine Lanigan
• Divine Nudges: Tales of Angelic Intervention

Denise Little, editor
• Vengeance Fantastic

Diana L. Paxson
• Ancestors of Avalon

Brandon A. Perron
• The Quest for Truth

Tommy Tenney
• Hadassah: One Night with the King

Gordon Van Gelder, editor
• In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords & Sorcery
• One Lamp