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Tanya Sue Huff (1957—) is a Canadian fantasy author born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Biography

Raised in Kingston, Ontario, her first sale was to the Picton Gazette when she was ten. They paid $10 for two of her poems. She joined the Canadian Naval Reserve in 1975 as a cook, ending her service in 1979 after four years. She later received a BAA degree in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto.

In the early 1980s she worked at Mr. Gameway's Ark, a game store in downtown Toronto. She spent eight years from 1984 to 1992 working at Bakka, North America's oldest surviving science fiction book store, in Toronto. During this time she wrote 7 books and 9 short stories, many of which were subsequently published. She was a member of the Bunch of Seven writing group. In 1992, after living for 13 years in downtown Toronto, she moved with her four large cats to the countryside of rural Ontario, where she currently resides with her partner Fiona Patton. Her current pet population consists of six cats and what she describes as an "unintentional chihuahua".

Tanya Huff is one of the most prominent Canadian authors in the category of contemporary fantasy, a subgenre pioneered by Charles de Lint. Many of the scenes in her stories are near places where she has lived or frequented in Toronto, Kingston, and elsewhere. This author frequently uses as character names the names of people in her circle of acquaintances.

Bibliography

Keeper's Chronicles

# Summon the Keeper (1998) # The Second Summoning (2001) # Long Hot Summoning (2003)

Quarters series

# Sing the Four Quarters (1994) Describes a world where musicians (or bards) create magic and an invasion from a neighboring country threatens the land. # Fifth Quarter (1995) # No Quarter (1996) # The Quartered Sea (1999)

Novels of Crystal

# Child of the Grove (1988) # The Last Wizard (1989) # Wizard of the Grove (1999) (Omnibus edition of Child of the Grove and The Last Wizard)

Victory Nelson

# Blood Price (1991) # Blood Trail (1992) # Blood Lines (1992) # Blood Pact (1993) # Blood Debt (1997)

TV series

The television series Blood Ties, based on the Victory Nelson novels, is going into production in the summer of 2006 by CHUM Television and Kaleidoscope Entertainment.

Smoke and Shadows

A follow-up to the Victory Nelson books with some of the same characters. # # #

Valor

# Valor's Choice (2000) # The Better Part of Valor (2002)

Other novels

Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light (1989)
The Fire's Stone (1990)
Scholar of Decay (1995) a Ravenloft novel

Short story collections

What Ho, Magic! (1999)
Relative Magic (2003)

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