"Heinleinian" is not necessarily a bad thing. A little Mary Sue-ish? Well, some of her preternatural abilities are explained later in the book, but yes, we've got some serious Heinleinian wish fulfillment going on here. By the end of the first chapter, we've learned that our 19-year-old protagonist is the terror of everyone she's ever crossed paths with, capable of beating up professional mercenaries singlehandedly, and has a rack that makes men stop to stare in the middle of a crisis. You have to love a heroine named Athena Hera Sinistra. She also won the Dragon Award for Uncharted (with Kevin J. Her space-opera novel Darkship Thieves was the 2011 Prometheus Award Winner, and the third novel in the series, A Few Good Men, was a finalist for the honor. Her short stories have been published in Analog, Asimov's, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, and a number of anthologies from DAW and Baen. She has over 30 published novels, in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical mystery, historical fantasy and historical biography. Worst of all she was, for a long time, a multilingual scientific translator.Īt some point, though, she got tired of making an honest living and started writing. She has also washed dishes and ironed clothes for a living.
She has never actually wrestled alligators, but she did at one point very briefly tie bows on bags of potpourri for a living.
In between lays the sort of resume that used to be de-rigueur for writers. Hoyt was born (and raised) in Portugal and now lives in Colorado with her husband, two sons, and a variable number of cats, depending on how many show up to beg on the door step.
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