Location: Canada
Member Since: Oct. 24, 2011
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Sylvia Volk


Biography

Sylvia Volk was born in western Canada to a family of readers; fiction followed. First she read it, and then (starting in elementary school) began making up her own. Somewhere along the way she ran out of available fiction and started reading nonfiction as well, and ended up learning about esoteric things - Arab horses, fractal structure of story, ancient-world military history, the mythology of beekeeping, the vanished kingdoms of the Himalayas and other such trivia. She writes esoteric books, and is beginning to suspect she's wrecked her eyes with too much reading.

Books

Dragon, Bucket, Moon    by Sylvia Volk
Price: $1.99 USD. 2930 words. Published on November 9, 2012. Fiction.
Young Harmony lives in seclusion, hidden from the more dangerous mages who are her elders. So when a dragon poses her a riddle, intending to eat her if she can't find the answer, she has no one to turn to. No way to escape. No future, unless she can solve the riddle.
Young Sasquatches in Love    by Sylvia Volk
Price: $1.99 USD. 3590 words. Published on July 8, 2012. Fiction.
Nothing wrecked a vacation cottage worse than sasquatches. Nothing wrecked a happy marriage worse than lovesick sasquatches on the prowl. Just ask Pete. All he was looking for was a weekend of married bliss, but all he found was a sasquatch ransacking his romantic mountain getaway.
On A Pale Horse    by Sylvia Volk
Price: $1.99 USD. 12030 words. Published on May 14, 2012. Fiction.
War threatens Salsabil's family. She's only a girl, raised in the sands of the Arabian desert; what can she do to help? But she has seen a wild horse in the dunes, and though her people think her mad, she feels the beginning of hope: for there is a horn on the horse's forehead . . .
Sungoddess    by Sylvia Volk
Price: $4.99 USD. 116600 words. Published on March 1, 2012. Fiction.
In Anahita’s world, living gods rule rich kingdoms and all strangers are enemies. To love a stranger is madness. But Anahita has always been fearless in love. Kesar should have been nothing to her. But he is irresistible, a mystery, and she can’t help seeing how desperately he longs for her. By the time she discovers who he really is—what he is—it’s too late. For both of them.
The Dragon's Teeth    by Sylvia Volk
Price: $1.99 USD. 11010 words. Published on December 23, 2011. Fiction.
Wenceslaus the clumsy apprentice despairs of ever mastering smith-magic. His teacher, wicked Black Kaspar, mocks him, but Kaspar’s lonely young wife Kalyna breaks into a smile full of dimples whenever Wenceslaus is about. None of them know that their mountain harbours a dragon—or that the gold of its tears, overspilling to the surface, will wake a magic wild enough to destroy them all.
In the Shadow of the Demon Gate    by Sylvia Volk
Price: $1.99 USD. 6930 words. Published on November 28, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Amyke, a slave, longs for freedom so she can marry handsome Muru. Worse, she's now of age to serve in the temple, any man's for a coin. These woes seem small, though, once a werewolf chooses her as its prey. On the day of her temple service, she finds herself in the perfect trap: she must wait in the temple courtyard until a man picks her, but the only one who will come for her is the werewolf.
Let the Dragon Wake    by Sylvia Volk
Price: $4.99 USD. 93930 words. Published on October 31, 2011. Fiction.
0.75 star(4.80 from 5 reviews)
Dovizel lives in a miraculous city, a city built on the back of a sleeping dragon. Now the monster is waking, and if it rises, her city faces doom. The knight who quells the dragon will win Dovizel as his reward. Worse, a dark mage also wants her. No matter what, it seems her fate is to be conquered, to yield. Well, hers is a city of odd, wild magic; she’ll learn magic herself, and defy fate.

Sylvia Volk’s tag cloud

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