Jennifer Fallon
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Jennifer Fallon is a bestselling Australian fantasy author of some fame amongst the Australian Fantasy community, and in widening international circles. She is also an affluent businesswoman, teacher and general manager. Her residence is in Alice Springs, Australia.
Jennifer Fallon was born in Carlton (a suburb of Melbourne, Australia) and lived in Caulfield until she was 11 when her father, a senior public servant, transferred to the national capital, Canberra. She lived in and around Canberra for about 8 years and went to school at Catholic Girls High School (now Merici College) in Braddon. She is the ninth child in a family of 13 girls.
The author has lived in the Northern Territory since 1980. She lived at a remote mine site and in Tennant Creek for a while; tried Darwin for a few years then settled in Alice Springs. After a brief stint in Melbourne in 2000, she is back in the Northern Territory.
Jennifer has two daughters and a son. She has had over 50 foster children and friends refer to her home as "the ashram" due to the large number of strays that still inhabit her house at irregular intervals.
Jennifer left school at 15 and has has worked as a youth worker, a store detective, shop assistant, an advertising sales rep and executive secretary, among other things. She has managed 2 hire car companies, an ISP, a video shop, been a state manager for an international cosmetics company and worked as a project manager for Territory Health Services.
Jennifer is an accredited workplace trainer and is also the regular movie reviewer for ABC Radio 783 Alice Springs She is currently undertaking a Masters Degree at QUT.
In her spare time, Jennifer founded the Anzac Hill Gymnastics Club in 1991 (now the Alice Springs Gymnastic Club). She was the NT Technical Director of Rhythmic Gymnastics for 4 years and was the 1993 and 1995 NT RG Coach of the Year and judged gymnastics at a National level for a number of years. She coached her daughter, Amanda to an overall win at the Australian Nationals Levels Championships in 1995.
Jennifer's mother, who died when she was 13, was an aspiring (but unpublished) children's writer. Following in her mother's footsteps, like many other writers, in 1981 Jennifer wrote a Mills & Boon that was thankfully rejected. (She burned the manuscript.) She changed to fantasy in 1990 when she decided she would be better writing something for herself, rather than trying to please everyone else and claims to have written about a million words since then.
In 1995, after her ex-husband famously advised her to "quit writing and be a better housewife, because you're never going to get published", Jennifer decided to either get published by the year 2000 or give up writing and get a real job. Significantly, being a better housewife did not factor into her plans.
Her first series, The Demon Child Trilogy, was released in August 2000 in Australia and hit the bestseller list the first week it was released and was shortlisted for the 2000 Aurealis Awards as the best Fantasy of 2000.
Since then, her books have been released all over the world and translated into a number of different languages. Although technically, she writes full time, Jennifer still teaches business and computing, because she insists "it gets me out of the house".
Jennifer Fallon has written nine books across three trilogies, all published by Voyager Books in Australia. She is also published by Tor and Random House in the US, Orbit in the UK, ACT in Russia and Heyne in Germany.
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[edit] Books by Series
[edit] The Demon Child Trilogy
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Medalon | 2000 | ISBN 0732264774 (AUS paperback) |
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Treason Keep | 2001 | ISBN 0732266211 (AUS paperback) |
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Harshini | 2001 | ISBN 0732266130 (AUS paperback) |
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[edit] The Second Sons Trilogy
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The Lion of Senet | 2002 | ISBN 0732275121 (AUS paperback) |
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Eye of the Labyrinth | 2003 | ISBN 073227513X (AUS paperback) |
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Lord of the Shadows | 2003 | ISBN 0732275148 (AUS paperback) |
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[edit] The Hythrun Chronicles
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Wolfblade | 2004 | ISBN 0732278902 (AUS paperback) |
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Warrior | 2004 | ISBN 0732278910 (AUS paperback) |
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Warlord | 2005 | ISBN 0732278929 (AUS paperback) |
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[edit] The Tide Lords
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The Immortal Prince | 21 February 2007 | ISBN 0732283353 (AUS paperback) |
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[edit] Note
In the US and Canada, The Demon Child and Hythrun Chronicles have been marketed under the same series, The Hythrun Chronicles.
