K. M. Saurel won her first writing award at the age of six and decided she aspired to be a starving writer in a garret. She holds a self-designed interdisciplinary B.A. in literature, history, and creative writing, which is definitely not a fancy way of saying she switched her major once too often. Her garret is located in British Columbia, where she writes swashbuckling historical fantasy and astonishingly hasn’t starved yet. She is not nearly as photogenic as this random decapitated head of Arsinoe II.

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