About the author

Hello, dear reader! I’m Audrey Auden. When I’m not tending the beautiful conservation woodland here at Eden Hill Farm, I’m writing stories and designing games based on my award-winning fantasy series The Artifex and the Muse. Thanks for stopping by.

Fantasy fiction was one of my earliest passions as a child, and as an adult I'm a lover of all forms of speculative fiction. I became an engineer because that seemed the next best thing to magic, and I spent 20+ years in startups, building high-impact products and companies.

But as fun as it is to build things in the “real” world, there's nothing quite as fun as building my own story worlds.

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