Alexandra May was destined to be an author or a musician. She wrote her first prose at 6 and learnt to read music by the age of 8. But coming from an army-style childhood, it was travelling that became her passion in her twenties. Having lived in 5 different countries she finally settled in Portugal and never left.
Ms May is an English young adult and sci-fi author of four books, bringing together the epic saga of a mythic mitochondrial Eve, Halíka Dacomé, and her modern day equivalent, Rose Frost.
Elemental: The First, Elemental: Origin, Ethandun and The Battle for Arcanon Major draw in Alexandra's love of strong women characters, sci-fi, history, romance and a little warmongering on the side!
This is a message for all those who email me regularly, and everyone who has been waiting for what seems a lifetime for this book!
I'm sorry :(
Circle of Fire will be published in the second half of 2015 (most probably September). I know the release date has been changed again and again but I promise this one will be correct.
Without going into details of the delay I will just say that Afghanistan (brother), cancer (dad), leukaemia and a loved one passing (aunt), plus a husband that lives far away for long lengths of time have all been a contributing factor for not getting Circle of Fire finished.
My heart has been up and down, round and round more times that a Ferris wheel in the last 18 months. But I'm in a good place right now and 2015 will be a good year.
If you haven't read The Battle for Arcanon Major yet then please check it out. It's a love story, and I wrote it when 3 of the above reasons were all happening at the same time.