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Erika Gardner

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Erika is a sixth generation San Franciscan of Irish & Basque descent. She attended the University of California at Davis and completed degrees in Medieval History and Biological Sciences. A lifelong lover of books and a scribbler of many tales from a young age (her first story was completed at age five) she turned to writing full-time in 2025. So why the long gap in writing? What happened between 2016 and today? Erika is also a survivor. Between a heart wrenching divorce, the pandemic, and then putting her life back together, the voices in her head stopped talking to her. Thankfully, they are back and now Erika has new stories to share.

Erika resides in a treehouse filled with fairies and twinkly lights in Northern California with her cat, M
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Erika Gardner Sherri, I am sure that you have long since given up on me :-) I went through a very painful divorce and for some years simply couldn't write. However,…moreSherri, I am sure that you have long since given up on me :-) I went through a very painful divorce and for some years simply couldn't write. However, things are much better in my life now and I am writing again. Dragon will be re-released with its sequel The Gryphon in the Tree. Look for the final book in the trilogy The Fae in the Flames to be released in spring of 2027.

Thanks for asking and my apologies for disappearing. You can keep up with me on www.erikagardner.com(less)
Erika Gardner I'm thrilled that you enjoyed Dragon! The second book, "The Gryphon in The Tree" should be available this Spring 2017 depending on my publisher's sche…moreI'm thrilled that you enjoyed Dragon! The second book, "The Gryphon in The Tree" should be available this Spring 2017 depending on my publisher's schedule. It will be followed by the conclusion to the trilogy, "The Fey in the Flames."

Thanks so much for checking in- FYI thanks to the success of our e-sales "The Dragon in The Garden" will be available in print as of October 24th, 2016!!!! I am so grateful- dream come true!(less)
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A classic for sure, I think most of us can sing the lyrics to this tune right along with George Harrison. I chose this week’s song to give myself and all of us a little pick me up. After the grotesque displays of corruption, greed and cruelty displayed by the current administration  and its followers (as in cult followers because that’s what they are), I thought we could all use a palate cleanser

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“A miracle is no less glorious for having previously happened”
Erika Gardner, The Dragon in the Garden

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“You're nobody's rainbow. You're nobody's princess. You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”
Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“A miracle is no less glorious for having previously happened”
Erika Gardner, The Dragon in the Garden

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama

“For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.”
Ursula K. LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“I named you once, I think," he said, and then strode to his house and entered, bearing the bird still on his wrist.”
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