About the Author

Deborah Cannon grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her fiction is inspired by her career as an archaeologist, which took her from Canada's west coast to England, the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga and finally to the shores of Lake Ontario where she continues to be fascinated by myths, legends and cryptids. In 2013 she won an honourable mention for her short story Twilight Glyph in the Canadian Tales of the Fantastic contest and in 2014 her story "Tang's Christmas Miracle" appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas in Canada. Her career as a science fiction/fantasy writer began when she sold two short stories to Farsector SFFH magazine. She has contributed to the Canadian Writer's Guide and is best known for The Raven Chronicles, a series of paranormal archaeological suspense novels and a time slip series for young adults, The Pirate Vortex. Recently she launched a fiction series of Kindle Short Reads called Close Encounters of the Cryptid Kind. Her latest release The Pirate Empress is her first Chinese epic fantasy. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her archaeologist husband and two Shih-poos, working on future titles for these series.