Barbara Davies (born September 7)

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Barbara Davies was born in Birmingham, England, twenty minutes after her twin sister. She grew up in the Midlands, managed to scrape a BA from York University, worked in computing in Surrey, then moved to Gloucestershire where she’s now a writer and a book reviewer for Starburst. Barbara published her first short story in 1994. Since then, more than forty of her stories have appeared in various genre magazines, including Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Khimairal Ink, Neo-Opsis, and nanobison, and in the anthologies Ideomancer Unbound, Crossings, and F/SF Volume 1. The readers of Kimota gave one of her stories their 1999 Best Story Award.

Bourn's Edge won a 2011 Rainbow Award as Best Lesbian Sci-fi/Fantasy and Best Lesbian Novel. Licensed to Spy won a 2013 Rainbow Award as Best LGBT Romantic Comedy.

Further Readings:

Bourn's Edge by Barbara Davies
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company; 2 edition (August 13, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939562171
ISBN-13: 978-1939562173
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Following an attempt to kill her, librarian Cassie Lewis leaves the only life she's ever known and flees west into the mist-shrouded borderlands that lie between England and Wales. There, the sleepy, hillside village of Bourn's Edge provides a safe haven for her to regroup and decide what to do next, and reclusive local artist Tarian Brangwen provides an intriguing and welcome distraction. But Cassie soon makes a startling discovery that turns her world upside down. For deep in the heart of the adjacent Bourn Forest lies an entrance to Faerie, and the enigmatic Tarian is much more than she appears . . .

Licensed to Spy by Barbara Davies
Paperback: 318 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company (January 28, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934452971
ISBN-13: 978-1934452974
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While the rest of the Canary Islands celebrates Carnaval, British secret agents Ashley Blade and Jemma Jacobs try to unravel a Libyan terrorist plot against the United States. If they don't succeed, it's goodbye to Boston and the U.S. eastern seaboard. Then the Libyan terrorists launch a new nefarious plot in Brazil, and Ash and Jemma scramble to save the world from a deadly sarin attack. Ash and Jemma finally return home to London for some much needed rest and relaxation. Unfortunately, where Ash and Jemma go, trouble is not far behind.

More Rainbow Awards at my website: elisarolle.com, Rainbow Awards/2011 & 2013