Sarah Hoyt

Sarah A. Hoyt is an author who also writes under the names Sarah D'Almeida and Elise Hyatt.

Biography

Hoyt was born on November 18, 1962 in the village of Granja, Águas Santas, Maia near Porto, Portugal, a major port city on the Atlantic coast. Educated in both Portugal and the United States, she graduated from University of Porto, with a Master's equivalent in Modern Languages and Literature with a major in English and a minor in German. She also speaks Swedish, Italian and French, with varying degrees of fluency. Married in 1985 to Dan Hoyt (a science fiction author and mathematician ), she has two teenaged sons. She became a United States citizen in 1988 in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a member of Mensa, SFWA, MWA, and RWA. She was the first female member of the Associação Atlética de Aguas Santas (the sports club in Aguas Santas Maia).

As of 2016, she lives in Colorado.

Writing

Hoyt writes fiction in various genres. Most notably, the first book in her Shakespearean fantasy series Ill Met by Moonlight , was a finalist for the 2002 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (which was instead won by Lois McMaster Bujold).

Her Musketeer's series begins with Death of a Musketeer , a Mystery Book Club selection and includes three other titles from Berkley Prime Crime.

Her favourite genre, however, remains science fiction and fantasy, and Hoyt is a prolific writer with dozens of short stories published. Her shapeshifter series include Draw One in the Dark and Gentleman Takes a Chance, urban fantasy adventures , from Baen Books. Also from Baen Books is her Darkship series beginning with Darkship Thieves, winner of the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction.

The British Empire Series takes place in a parallel world, where history from Charlemagne to Queen Victoria parallels ours but is actuated through the workings of magic and not by science and technology. The series consists of three books: Heart of Light, which takes place in Victorian Africa; Soul of Fire, which unfolds in India; and Heart and Soul, which enmeshes itself in the chaos of 19th century China.

Under the house name Laurien Gardner, she has written Plain Jane for Jove Books Historical Fiction. She also edited the anthology Something Magic This Way Comes.

She has also written a series of mysteries centered on furniture refinishing under the pen name of Elise Hyatt. These stories are set in the same city of Goldport, Colorado as her shifter series, with some characters appearing in both series.

More recently, she was featured on a podcast, The Future and You . Produced by Stephen Euin Cobb, the show featured Sarah de Almeida Hoyt, David Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Travis Taylor, and Stephen L Antczak.

In collaboration with Eric Flint, she was working on a novel set in the 1632 universe (the working title was By Any Other Name). However, according to Sarah, posted on her Facebook page on Oct 31, 2012:

It has changed. It is now called "The Shakespeare Gambit" and is a "time wars" book -- which might or might not start a series. It's still grossly overdue. Problem is I need to get back into Tudor England to write it, and I haven't had the time. It is "upcoming" when Sarah gets around to it, though.

Bibliography

Anthologies edited by Sarah A. Hoyt

• Something Magic This Way Comes (DAW Books, 2008)

Short Story Collections

• Crawling Between Heaven and Earth (2002)
• Wings (2008)

Historical Romance

• Plain Jane (Jove Books Historical Fiction) under the house name Laurien Gardner
• No Will But His: A Novel of Kathryn Howard (Berkley, 2010)

Shakespearean Fantasy series

• Ill Met by Moonlight (Ace Books, 2001)
• All Night Awake(Ace Books, 2002)
• Any Man So Daring (Ace Books, 2003)

Shifter series

• Draw One in the Dark (Baen Books, 2006)
• Gentleman Takes a Chance (Baen Books, 2008)
• Noah's Boy (Baen Books, 2013)

Musketeer's series (as Sarah D'Almeida)

• Death of a Musketeer (Berkley Prime Crime, 2006)
• The Musketeer's Seamstress (Berkley Prime Crime, 2007)
• The Musketeer's Apprentice (Berkley Prime Crime, 2007)
• A Death in Gascony (Berkley Prime Crime, 2008)
• Dying by the Sword (Berkley, 2008)

Magical British Empire series

• Heart of Light (Bantam Dell, 2008)
• Soul of Fire (Bantam Dell, 2008)
• Heart and Soul (Bantam Dell, 2008)

Magical Empires series

• Witchfinder (Goldport Press, 2014)

Darkship Series

• Darkship Thieves (Baen Books, January 2010) – Prometheus Award 2011
• Darkship Renegades (Baen Books, December 2012) available in Trade Paperback and Baen e-book
• A Few Good Men (Baen Books, March 2013).
• Through Fire (Baen Books, August 2016).

Furniture Refinishing Mysteries (as Elise Hyatt)

• Dipped, Stripped, and Dead (Berkley, 2009)
• French Polished Murder (Berkley, 2010)
• A Fatal Stain (Berkley, 2012)

Short Stories

• "Where Horse and Hero Fell" (Places to Be, People to Kill, June 5, 2007)
• "The Blood of Dreams" (The Secret History of Vampires, April 3, 2007)
• "With Unconfined Wings" (Cosmic Cocktails, December 5, 2006)
• "Girl With the Golden Lute" (Weird Tales, June 2006)
• "Titan" (Children of Magic, June 6, 2006)
• "Hot" (Slipstreams, May 2, 2006)
• "Stock Management" (Modern Magic, April 25, 2006)
• "Go Tell the Spartans" (Millennium 3001, February 7, 2006)
• "Change of Heart" (Crossroads, December 6, 2005), with Kate Paulk
• "Super Lamb Banana" (Time After Time, November 1, 2005)
• "Something Worse Hereafter" (All Hell Breaking Loose, October 4, 2005)
• "Lost" (Chronicle, October 2005)
• "Fox Fire" (Illuminated Manuscripts, September 2005)
• "Unnatural History" (Bedlam's Edge, August 2, 2005)
• "Sea of Darkness" (Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits v.3, June 23, 2005)
• "Wait Until the War is Over" (Gateways, June 7, 2005)
• "Sugarbush Soul" (Absolute Magnitude, Spring 2005)
• "Around the World in 80 Letters" (Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures, March 12, 2005), with Kevin J. Anderson
• "After the Sabines" (Amazing, March, 2005)
• "Ganymede" (Oceans of the Mind, Summer 2004)
• "Yellow Tide Foam" (Faerie Tales, May 1, 2004)
• "What She Left Behind" (Asimov's, March, 2004)
• "Wings" (Paradox, Autumn 2003)
• "The Blonde" (Book of Final Flesh, July 15, 2003)
• "Traveling, Traveling" (Analog, July/August 2003)
• "Never Look Back" (Weird Tales, Winter 2002)
• "The Muse's Darling" (Apprentice Fantastic, November 2002)
• "For Whose Dear Sake" (Dreams of Decadence, Summer 2002)
• "The Play and the Thing" (Fantastic Stories, Winter 2001)
• "Trafalgar Square" (Analog, November 2001)
• "The Blood Like Wine" (Dreams of Decadence, Autumn 2001)
• "Dear John" (Absolute Magnitude, Summer, 2001)
• "Songs" (Weird Tales, Spring 2001)
• "Another George" (Dark Regions, Winter 2000)
• "If I Lose Thee..." (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds III', May 1, 2000), Grand Prize Winner with Rebecca Lickiss
• "Elvis Died for Your Sins" (Weird Tales, April 2000)
• "Like Dreams of Waking" (Dark Regions, Summer 1999)
• "Not For Thee the Glow" (Pirate Writings, now Fantastic Stories, Summer 1999)
• "Plaudit Cives" (Absolute Magnitude, Summer 1998)
• "Thirst" (Dreams of Decadence, Summer 1997)
• "Whom the Gods Love" (Transhuman: On the Edge of the Singularity)
• "Heart's Fire" (Enchantment Place)
• "The Price of Gold" (Witch High)
• "A Grain of Salt" (Better Off Undead)
• "Scraps of Fog" (Jim Baen's Universe)

External links

• Sarah A. Hoyt's Web Site
• Sarah Hoyt's Blog
• Sarah A. Hoyt at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Shifter Series homepage
• Musketeers Mysteries homepage
• Magical British Empire Series homepage
• All of Sarah's audio interviews on the podcast The Future And You (in which she describes her expectations of the future)
• Baen Books
• Baen Free Library
• Sarah's Diner at Baen's Bar
• Interview conducted by Baen Books Editor Toni Weisskopf