{{short description|American novelist (born 1982)}} {{Multiple issues| {{Notability|date=January 2024}} {{BLP primary sources|date=August 2009}} }} {{infobox writer |name=Sara King |birth_date={{birth year and age|1982}} |birth_place=Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S. |occupation=Writer |education=Chugiak High School<br>Odyssey Writing Workshop |genre=Fantasy }} '''Sara J. King''' (born 1982) is an Alaskan Fantasy writer residing in the Alaska Bush.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kingfiction.com/blog/?p=164 |title=Catching up with May « Sara King |accessdate=2009-05-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220074543/http://www.kingfiction.com/blog/?p=164 |archivedate=2012-02-20 }}</ref> She is currently working on her 11th novel, part of the "After Earth" series.
==History== Sara King was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1982. She has remained an Alaskan ever since, graduating from Chugiak High School in 2001 and beginning her full-time writing career shortly thereafter. She is an outdoors enthusiast.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Labes |first=Emily |date=2022-10-13 |title=SBT Author Spotlight: Sara King |url=https://soundbooththeater.com/sbt-author-spotlight-sara-king/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=Soundbooth Theater |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>*[http://www.kingfiction.com Sara's Bio]</ref> Her works have appeared in short-story magazines, including ''Apex Science Fiction and Horror'',<ref name="isfdb.org">{{Cite web |title=Publication: Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, #11 |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?281775 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> ''BBT Magazine'',<ref name="Title: Fairy">{{Cite web |title=Title: Fairy |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2395915 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> 47North,<ref name="Title: Fortune's Rising">{{Cite web |title=Title: Fortune's Rising |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1733489 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> and ''Aberrant Dreams.''
In March 2007, King was chosen from a pool of 50 candidates to edit ''Aberrant Dreams,'' where she works as a contributing editor.<ref>[https://aberrantdreams.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html The Nightmarish Realm], April 2007</ref>
In August 2007, a 7500-word short piece "The Moldy Dead," a short story spinoff of ''The Legend of ZERO'' series, became King's first published short work in Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=6490|title = Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest – Volume 1, Issue 11}}</ref> where it received a positive review.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://syndicatedzinereviews.blogspot.com/2008/04/review-apex-11.html|title=Review: Apex #11|date=7 April 2008}}</ref>
In March 2008, King joined the Codex Writers Group, an online gathering of professional speculative fiction writers, editors, and agents. Here, she workshopped her short fantasy works "The Sheet-Charmer of Broketoe" and "The Auldhund," which won semi-finalist in the First Quarter 2008 Writers of the Future Contest.<ref name="Writers of the Future blog">[http://wotfblog.galaxypress.com/ Writers of the Future blog]</ref>
In July 2008, King graduated from the 6-week Odyssey Writing Workshop in New Hampshire.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Sara King |url=https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.sara.king |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=lifeboat.com}}</ref> She later served as a guest lecturer for the workshop.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-01-14 |title=Interview: Graduate & Guest Lecturer Sara King (Part 1 of 3) |url=https://odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/2019/01/13/interview-graduate-guest-lecturer-sara-king-part-1-of-3/ |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=Odyssey Writing Workshop Blog |language=en}}</ref>
==Bibliography==
=== Novels ===
==== Aulds of the SPYRE ==== *''Form and Function'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Form and Function |isbn=1942929099 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: Form and Function |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1977074 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref>
==== Guardians of the First Realm ==== *''Alaskan Fire'' (2012), ISBN B0073WZ01C<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: Alaskan Fire |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1847722 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> *''Alaskan Fury'' (2012), ISBN B007P4CY26<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: Alaskan Fury |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1977043 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref>
==== The Legend of ZERO ==== * ''Forging Zero'' (2013)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: Forging Zero |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1977021 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> * ''Zero Recall'' (2013)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: Zero Recall |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1977022 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> * ''Zero's Return'' (2014)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: Zero's Return |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1847990 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> * ''Forgotten'' (2022)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forgotten |url=https://www.amazon.com/Legend-ZERO-Forgotten-Sara-King/dp/B0BHG84FGL/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=AUTHOR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.57X0mR-krtDQd2RGJwlHxsEMIAZUWXkBrc9tEH0Ss1AY0lhKu2hXfAWIS1XDbrlFK9LczSCZx4NQKDS0AhzBz1DNn6lseEAedzI6d0RK5UEki5YI3gLmyoxf1Ua3KTRr-WLKxe6H5yFvWf8qK1jhn1fLl3VtDYXBw3BPnZvEO_sVcdk23ho7nUnqcTaqsKgi5yWQqH-03MXwk_39nAyidjwDTHYjtgc7lst7N-ITx9w.zSzvT9cT_koiX0qk-YajkM5WF5d6FTVJupR-ko9nIpI&qid=&sr= |website=Amazon}}</ref> * The Legend of ZERO: Zero Marked: A ZERO World Anthology (2022)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Legend of Zero |url=https://www.amazon.com/Legend-ZERO-Marked-World-Anthology/dp/B0BM3MHZFX/ |website=Amazon}}</ref>
===== The Legend of ZERO short stories ===== * ''Moldy Dead '' (2013)<ref name="isfdb.org"/> * ''The Many Misadventures of Flea, Agent of Chaos'' (2015)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: The Many Misadventures of Flea, Agent of Chaos |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1977072 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> * ''The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1977045 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref>
==== Millennium Potion ==== * ''Wings of Retribution'' (2013), ISBN B007W6RBSE<ref>{{Cite book |title=Wings of Retribution |isbn=1942929048 }}</ref>
==== Outer Bounds ==== * ''Fortune's Rising'' (2014), ISBN B008HYWOHI<ref name="Title: Fortune's Rising"/> * ''Fortune's Folly'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: Fortune's Folly |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2374492 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref>
==== Terms of Mercy ==== * ''To the Princess Bound'' (2012), ISBN B008283TVO
===Short stories=== * “Fairy”, ''Blood, Blade, and Thruster Magazine,'' Issue #3, October 2007<ref name="Title: Fairy"/> * “Discerning Tastes”, ''Aberrant Dreams,'' January 2008 Issue * “Twelve-A”, ''Apex Online,'' Featured Writer, February 2008 * “Glacial Melt”, ''Shroud Magazine''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: Glacial Melt |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?948793 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> * “Face Cards”, ''Cemetery Dance Magazine'' * "Cheap Real Estate", ''Shroud Magazine''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Title: Cheap Real Estate |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1560284 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref> * "Moderator", ''Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 17 |url=http://www.neo-opsis.ca/Seventeen.htm |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=www.neo-opsis.ca}}</ref>
==Awards and recognitions==
In 2001, King received an Honorable Mention from the University of Alaska's 21st Annual Creative Writing Contest for her poetry piece, "Untitled."<ref name="litsite.alaska.edu">{{cite web |url=http://litsite.alaska.edu/akwrites/2001/2001contest.html |title=The 2001 Creative Writing Contest |website=litsite.alaska.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020330234848/http://litsite.alaska.edu/akwrites/2001/2001contest.html |archive-date=2002-03-30}}</ref><ref name="litsite.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=Peer-Work&page=Poetry&viewpost=2&ContentId=1354|title=Litsite – Official Blog}}</ref>
King has twice received Honorable Mentions from the Writers of the Future Contest; her first from the First Quarter 2007 contest for her 8,000-word short work "Parasite" and her second in the Fourth Quarter 2007 for the 7,900-word short piece "Fury of the Sphinx". She became a semi-finalist in the contest in the First Quarter 2008 with the 10,000-word novelette "The Auldhund."<ref name="Writers of the Future blog"/>
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