Author of the Week: Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly was born in 1951, has written more than forty novels, and has recently started playing World of Warcraft. She is also my favourite author, beating out some fairly classy competition, as you’ll see from columns to come.
She has a Masters in Medieval History and spent a year in Bordeaux as a part of her work for that degree. In the time between that and writing fulltime, she worked as a high school teacher, model, waitress, technical editor (which shows up a bit in her inside knowledge of mainframe computers in one of her series), all-night liquor store clerk, [...]