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Alethea Kontis is an American writer of Teen & Young Adult Books, picture books and speculative fiction, primarily for children.[1][2] She lived in Ashburn, Virginia[3] and then in Titusville, FL.

Alethea Kontis
Kontis at Burke Centre Library in 2013
Born	Alethea Kontis South Burlington, Vermont, US
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Genre	Teen & young adult, fantasy, horror fiction, science fiction, romance
Website
www.aletheakontis.com

Selected works

Novels

• Enchanted The Woodcutter Sisters Book 1 (Harcourt Books, 2012)[4][5] 2012 Gelett Burgess Award Winner, 2015 Garden State Teen Book Award
• Hero The Woodcutter Sisters Book 2 (HM Harcourt, 2013)
• Dearest The Woodcutter Sisters Book 3 (HM Harcourt, 2015)[6]
• Trixter" The Trix Adventures Book 1 (Self Published, 2015)
• Trix & the Faerie Queen The Trix Adventures Book 2 (Self Published, 2016) 2016 Dragon Award Finalist
• Haven Kansas (Self Published, 2016)
• The Truth About Cats And Wolves: A Nocturne Falls Universe story (Sugar Skull Books, 2017)
• When Tinker Met Bell: A Nocturne Falls Universe story (Sugar Skull Books, 2017) 2018 Dragon Award Nominee
• Besphinxed: A Nocturne Falls Universe story (Sugar Skull Books, 2018) 2019 Scribe Award Winner
• Thieftess (Thursday Woodcutter) The Woodcutter Sisters Book 4 Release Date TBD
• Fated (Wednesday Woodcutter) The Woodcutter Sisters Book 5 Release Date TBD
• Endless (Tuesday Woodcutter) The Woodcutter Sisters Book 6 Release Date TBD
• Countenance (Monday Woodcutter) The Woodcutter Sisters Book 7 Release Date TBD
• Trix and the Fire Witch The Trix Adventures Book 3 Release Date TBD

Collections

• Beauty & Dynamite (Apex Publications, June 2008) ISBN 0-9776681-7-7 – essays and poems
• Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming: the worlds of Alethea Kontis (2013, Alliteration Ink)[7]
• Tales of Arilland (Fairy Stories from the Dark Wood) Books of Arilland Book 5 (Self Published, 2015) 2015 Gelett Burgess Award Winner
• Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place (Ragnarok Publications, 2016) ISBN 978-1941987612
• Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling (Apex Book Company, 2016)

Non-fiction

• The Dark-Hunter Companion, co-written with Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Griffin, 2007) ISBN 0-31236-343-5 - guide to the Dark-Hunter series

Children's books

• AlphaOops!: The Day Z Went First, illustrated by Bob Kolar (Candlewick Press, 2006)
• Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome, illus. Janet K. Lee; (Thaumatrope, 2009)^{[citation needed]}
• AlphaOops!: H is for Halloween, illus. Bob Kolar, (Candlewick Press, 2010)
• The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice's Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There, illus. Janet K. Lee (Archaia, 2012)^{[citation needed]}
• Oodles of Doodles!: Ready-to-Read Level 1, illus. Christophe Jacques, (Simon Spotlight, 2022)

Short stories

• "Sunday" (Realms of Fantasy, October 2006)
• "Small Magics" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, October 2006)
• "Blood & Water" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, July 2008) (Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered, February 13, 2015, reprint)
• "Clockwise" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Nov. 2011)
• "Black Hole Sun" (w/Kelli Dunlap)
• "Life's a Beach" (w/Ariell Branson)
• "Blue & Gray and Black & Green"
• "Ghost Dancer"
• "The Giant & The Unicorn"
• "Sweetheart Come"
• "The God of Last Moments"
• "Foiled"
• "Happy Thoughts" (Apex Digest issue #3)
• "Poor Man's Roses"
• "The Monster & Mrs. Blake" (for The Story Station)
• "Diary of a Ghost's Mistress" (Shroud magazine)
• "Hero Worship"
• "Pocket Full of Posey"
• "Red Lantern"
• "Savage Planet"
• "Unicorn Gold"
• "The Unicorn Hunter"
• "The Unicorn Tree"
• "The Way of the Restless"
• "The Witch of Black Mountain"
• "Messenger (Chapter 20 of Dearest) (2015)
• "For Angels to Fly: A Short Story" (2016)
• "Barefoot Bay: Fish Out of Water (Kindle Worlds Novella)" (2016)

Anthologies edited

• Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy, co-edited with Steven Savile (Tor Books, 2006) ISBN 0-7653-1563-7
• Once Upon A Curse: 17 Dark Faerie Tales (Fiddlehead Press, 2016) ASIN B01G35DZAW

See also

Great grand-niece of Ernestine Mercer.

References

External links

• Official website
• Patreon (official)
• East/West Literary Agency
• Free reads on Wattpad
• Goodreads Author Profile (official)
• Alethea Kontis at IMDb
• Alethea Kontis at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Alethea Kontis at Library of Congress Authorities, with 9 catalog records

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