Laurie Forest lives deep in the backwoods of Vermont, where she sits in front of a woodstove drinking strong tea and dreaming up tales full of dryads, dragons and wands. She is the author of The Black Witch Chronicles, including The Black Witch, The Iron Flower, The Shadow Wand, and The Demon Tide, as well as prequel novellas Wandfasted and Light Mage, available in print in The Rebel Mages anthology. Enter her realm online at www.laurieannforest.com.