Alethea Kontis

Alethea Kontis (born January 11, 1976) is an American writer of picture books and speculative fiction, primarily for children.^[1][2] She lives in Titusville, FL.

Selected works

Novels

• Enchanted (Harcourt Books, 2012)^[3][4]
• Hero (HM Harcourt, 2013)
• Dearest (HM Harcourt, 2015)^[5]

Collections

• Beauty & Dynamite (Apex Publications) ISBN 0-9776681-7-7 – essays and poems
• Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming: the worlds of Alethea Kontis (2013, Alliteration Ink)^[6]

Non-fiction

• The Dark-Hunter Companion, co-written with Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Griffin, 2007) ISBN 0-31236-343-5 - guide to the Dark-Hunter series

Children's books

• AlphaOops!: The Day Z Went First, illustrated by Bob Kolar (Candlewick Press, 2006)
• Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome, illus. Janet K. Lee; (Thaumatrope, 2009)
• AlphaOops!: H is for Halloween, illus. Bob Kolar, (Candlewick Press, 2010)
• The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice's Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There, illus. Janet K. Lee (Archaia, 2012)

Short stories

• "Sunday" (Realms of Fantasy, October 2006)
• "Small Magics" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, October 2006)
• "Blood & Water" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, July 2008)
• "Clockwise" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Nov. 2011)
• "Black Hole Sun" (w/Kelli Dunlap)
• "Life's a Beach" (w/Ariell Branson)
• "Blue & Gray and Black & Green"
• "Ghost Dancer"
• "The Giant & The Unicorn"
• "Sweetheart Come"
• "The God of Last Moments"
• "Foiled"
• "Happy Thoughts" (Apex Digest issue #3)
• "Poor Man's Roses"
• "The Monster & Mrs. Blake" (for The Story Station)
• "Diary of a Ghost's Mistress" (Shroud magazine)
• "Hero Worship"
• "Pocket Full of Posey"
• "Red Lantern"
• "Savage Planet"
• "Unicorn Gold"
• "The Unicorn Hunter"
• "The Unicorn Tree"
• "The Way of the Restless"
• "The Witch of Black Mountain"

Anthologies edited

• Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy, co-edited with Steven Savile (Tor Books, 2006) ISBN 0-7653-1563-7

See also

References

External links

• Official website
• AlphaOops! (official)
• "Small Magics" at Intergalactic Medicine Show
• "Blood & Water" at Intergalactic Medicine Show
• "White Girl" (non-fiction), Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2008
• Alethea Kontis at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Alethea Kontis at Library of Congress Authorities, with 9 catalog records