an odd but congenial environment for the staging of epic battles between good and evil and the leisurely pursuit of total galactic domination. Also new from DD in the Young Wizards universe are the interstitial collections INTERIM ERRANTRY (containing the 110,000-word YW novel LIFEBOATS), available at Amazon and from the author's ebook store, and INTERIM ERRANTRY 2: ON ORDEAL (at this time available only at Ebooks Direct).ĭD shares a two hundred-year-old cottage in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland with her husband, the Belfast-born novelist and screenwriter Peter Morwood, and various overworked computers. The series now enters its third decade with Nita's and Kit's newest adventure, GAMES WIZARDS PLAY, the tenth Young Wizards novel (published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2016). Right now DD is probably best known for her 'Young Wizards' series of young adult fantasy novels, featuring the New York-based teen wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan.

(She's also worked with Star Trek in more media than anyone else alive.)

Since the publication of her first novel in 1981, she's written fifty more, not to mention numerous short stories, comics, computer games and screenplays for TV and film, and has picked up the occasional award here and there. Diane Duane was born in New York City - a descendant of New York's first mayor - and worked there as a psychiatric nurse before leaving the profession for the only one she loved better, the business of writing.

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