Maya became addicted to science fiction when her dad let her stay up late to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still. Mom was horrified. Dad was unrepentant. Maya slept with a night-light in her room until she was 15.

She started her writing career sketching science fiction comic books in the last row of her third grade classroom. She was never apprehended. Since then her short fiction has been published in Analog, Amazing Stories, Century, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Paradox and Jim Baen’s Universe. Look for her British Science Fiction Award finalist The White Dog along with a variety of her short fiction on the Café shelves.

Her debut novel, The Meri (Baen), was a Locus Magazine 1992 Best First Novel nominee (now available as a trade paperback from Sense of Wonder Press). Since, she has published five more speculative fiction novels, the latest of which, Mr. Twilight (Del Rey) was co-written with Michael Reaves. She also worked with Michael Reaves on Star Wars — Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of Force, and the duo collaborated on a new Star Wars novel, Star Wars: Shadow Games (November 2011).

Maya lives in San Jose where she writes, performs, and records original and parody (filk) music with her husband and awesome musician and music producer, Chef Jeff Vader, All-Powerful God of Biscuits. The couple frequently serves as Guest of Honor at science fiction/fantasy conventions and at filk music gatherings, and has been honored with Pegasus Awards for Best Parody and Best Performer. They’ve produced five music albums: RetroRocket Science, Aliens Ate My Homework and Grated Hits (parody), and the original music CDs Manhattan Sleeps and Mobius Street. To top it off, they’ve also produced three musical children: Alex, Avery, and Amanda.

Check out www.cdbaby.com to hear songs from Mobius Street and become a fan of Maya and Jeff’s music!

And her personal website: www.mysticfig.com

Read Maya’s Locus Magazine Best First Novel nominee:

THE MERI

Book One of the Mer Cycle

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eBooks by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff:

A Princess of Passyunk  

Philadelphia, 1950‘s: a boy, a baseball, a cockroach. Unlikely place. Unlikely characters. Unlikely love story.

"Faith is at the heart of Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's new novel, A Princess of Passyunk—faith in your heart ("Dos hartz hot mir gezogt. My heart told me."); faith in your senses, your instincts, your family, your heritage, your elders; and faith in the magic of the everyday. ...magic realism at its absolute best." — Linda Irvine, Library Thing

 

Taco Del & the Fabled Tree of Destiny

a Merlin’s Tale

Visit a future San Francisco in which Golden Gate Park and the Presidio are thriving farms, luxury hotels are the palaces of neighborhood kings and book shops are treasuries of wisdom. This is the world of Taco Del, Merlin to His Majesty, King of Embarcadero. In this world, the young wizard must unravel a great mystery to save his beseiged kingdom. King Elvis wants to steal its secrets, mysterious outsiders want to expel its citizens, an ancient and sinister Force threatens spiritual domination. Salvation rests on the slender shoulders of Taco Del and his unlikely allies—a red-haired Chinese girl, a ghosty tribe of Mission Indians and a small fir tree named Doug.

A brief review by Vonda N. McIntyre: “The book charmed me. I fell in love with Taco and Firescape — and Doug. Bohnhoff’s prose is inventive, yet transparent: a dialect comprehensible to contemporary readers but also perfectly evolved for its near-future setting. It can also be very, very funny. When I had to put the story down, I looked forward to picking it up again. After I finished it, I kept expecting to be able to go back to it, because the characters’ lives extended beyond ‘The End.’ I hope I get to read those adventures, too.” — Vonda N. McIntyre

LALDASA: Beloved Slave

A Tale from the Asok Tree

Anala Nadim is a free woman until she travels to the planet Mehtar to procure supplies for her father’s mining operation. But in the teeming capitol city of Kasi, a twist of fate enslaves Anala to the Lord Prince of Kasi — Jaya Sarojin. So begins a tale of greed, betrayal, political intrigue and love that introduces both Jaya and Anala to lives they had never before imagined. 

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