About the Author
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alethea Kontis is aprincess, a fairy godmother, and a geek. She's known for screwing up the alphabet, making horror movies with her friends, and ranting aboutfairy tales on YouTube.
Alethea's published works include novels, novellas, and companions in the universes of Arilland, Border Court,Nocturne Falls, Barefoot Bay, and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunters; theAlphaOops picture books; Haven, Kansas; Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming; The Wonderland Alphabet; and Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome. Her short fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in a myriad of anthologies and magazines.
Alethea's YA fairy tale novel, Enchanted, won both the Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award and Garden State Teen Book Award. Enchanted was nominated for the Audie Award in 2013 and was selected for World Book Night in 2014. Both Enchanted and its sequel, Hero, were nominated for the Andre Norton Award. Tales of Arilland, a short story collection set in the same fairy tale world, won a second Gelett Burgess Award in 2015. The second book in The Trix Adventures, Trix and the Faerie Queen, was a finalist for the Dragon Award in 2016.
Princess Alethea was given the honor of speaking about fairy tales at theLibrary of Congress in 2013. In 2015, she gave a keynote address at theLewis Carroll Society's Alice150 Conference in New York City,celebrating the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She also enjoys speaking at schools and festivals all over the US. (Ifforced to choose between all these things, she says middle schools areher favorite!)
Born in Burlington, Vermont, Alethea currentlylives and writes on the Space Coast of Florida. She makes the bestbaklava you've ever tasted and sleeps with a teddy bear named Charlie.Find out more about Princess Alethea and the magic, wonderful world inwhich she lives on her website, her Patreon, or follow her author pagehere on Amazon!
