121:"I have spent most of my adult life shovelling manure, writing poetry, and looking up at the stars. ... hand-to-hand (sometimes face-to-hoof) with the cows, the cruddy milking machines, the manure, the hay, the weather. ... At the age of forty-three, I ‘reformed’ ... I finally realized that English teachers have destroyed any love of poetry that might remain in the English-speaking race ... so I started writing fantasy novels, and haven’t looked back in the years since. I have been influenced, to a greater or lesser extent, by
94:(February 20, 1930 – February 1, 2012) was an American writer and poet. Mayhar wrote over 60 books ranging from science fiction to horror to young adult to historical to westerns. Some of her novels appeared under pseudonyms such as Frank Cannon, Frances Hurst, and John Killdeer. Mayhar began writing fantasy with a story in 1973, and fantasy novels in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon.
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The main collection of her papers is the Ardath Mayhar Papers at the East Texas
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Publishing digital publishers of the MOUNTAIN MAJESTY series Mayhar wrote under the name of John Killdeer, chronicling the life and times of a young fur trapper in the far west of the 1820s.
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magazine (Winter 1988). (Sets out the need to retain fun, humour and optimism in the face of the changing state of science-fiction and fantasy).
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She moved back to Texas to become a fantasy and science-fiction writer, and lived on a place bordering the
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Mean Little Old Lady at Work: The
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Through a Stone Wall: Lessons from Thirty Years of
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The Loquat Eyes: More Tall Tales from Cotton County, Texas
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Through a Stone Wall: Lessons from Thirty Years of
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How the Gods Wove in
Kyrannon: Tales of the Triple Moons
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Crazy Quilt: The Best Short
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How to write tales of horror, fantasy & science
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The Absolutely Perfect Horse: A Novel of East Texas
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588:The Untamed
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362:The Tulpa
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