Cate Tiernan

Cate Tiernan
Born (1961-07-24) July 24, 1961
New Orleans
Occupation Novelist
Genre Fantasy, adventure
Notable works Sweep Series
Website
www.catetiernan.org

Cate Tiernan (born July 24, 1961) is the pen name of Gabrielle Charbonnet, an American author.

Writing as Cate Tiernan, she is best known for her Sweep series, which follows the Wiccan adventures of a cast of high school students.[1] The stories are sold as the Wicca series in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Australia, and as White Magic (Magie Blanche) in Italy and France. Under her own name, she is chiefly known for children's books in the Princess, American Gold Gymnasts, and Disney Girls series.[2] In 2008 and 2009, Charbonnet collaborated with author James Patterson on two "young adult" novels, Sundays at Tiffany's[3] and Witch & Wizard.[4]

Life

Charbonnet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1961.[5] She began her college education at New York University studying writing and Russian language and literature, then transferred to Loyola University in New Orleans, where she graduated with a degree in Russian. She began her career as an assistant to the head of the Juvenile Audio and Video department at Random House in New York City, where she wrote her first children's books.[5] She also participated in the editing of The Secret Circle by L.J. Smith during this period.[6]

After 8 years in New York, Charbonnet and her husband moved back to New Orleans, where they began a family (2 daughters) and she embarked on her Sweep series. While not a Wiccan herself, she asserts that she "can really relate to Wicca", and appreciates its "woman-centeredness and its essentially female identity."[6]

After five years in New Orleans, Charbonnet moved to Durham, North Carolina, where she now lives with her husband Paul, two daughters, two stepsons, a poodle, and "an unfortunate number of cats."[7]

Works

Charbonnet has written about 75 books under her own name, her pseudonym Cate Tiernan, and miscellaneous other pen names as a ghost writer.[8]

Bibliography

The Princess Trilogy

(Scholastic Inc., 1995)

American Gold Gymnasts Miniseries

(Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1996)

The Disney Girls Series

(Disney Press, 1998–99)

The Sweep series (writing as Cate Tiernan)

(PutnamPenguin, 2001–2003)

Balefire (writing as Cate Tiernan)

(PenguinRazorbill, 2005–2007)

Immortal Beloved (trilogy as Cate Tiernan)

Birthright (writing as Cate Tiernan)

    'darkheart' unknown when going to be released

References

  1. ↑ "Sweep series." Amazon.com Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  2. ↑ "About Gabrielle Charbonnet." FantasticFiction.co.uk Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  3. ↑ Patterson, James and Charbonnet, Gabrielle: Sundays at Tiffany's. Little Brown, 2008. ISBN 0-316-01477-X
  4. ↑ Patterson, James and Charbonnet, Gabrielle: Witch & Wizard. Little Brown, 2009. ISBN 0-316-03624-2
  5. 1 2 Bio: CateTiernan.org Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  6. 1 2 "About Cate Tiernan." FireFairy.com Retrieved 2010-07-01.
  7. ↑ "About Me." GabrielleCharbonnet.com Retrieved 2010-07-01.
  8. ↑ "About My Work." GabrielleCharbonnet.com Retrieved 2010-07-01
  9. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Darkest-Fear-Birthright-Cate-Tiernan/dp/144248246X/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1385513434&sr=8-9&keywords=cate+tiernan
  10. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Darkest-Night-Birthright-Book-Two-ebook/dp/B00L2DN14G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435073222&sr=1-1&keywords=Cate+Tiernan

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