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A.L. Phillips is a native of Pasadena, California. She has been telling stories to anyone who would listen since she was in grade school, and began writing her first novel at age 17. She has always loved fantasy and science fiction, and has written primarily in these areas.

Phillips earned a B.A. in Sociology from Grove City College, where she wrote a short version of her debut fantasy novel, "The Quest of the Unaligned," as an independent study. Also during that time, she began to publish in the academic field.

Currently, Phillips is a graduate student in Survey Research and Methodology at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln; she will begin a Ph.D. in Marketing at the same institution in Fall 2013, and plans to become a professor. In her free time, however, Phillips enjoys reading, singing, rapier-fighting, and, of course, writing new stories.

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The Quest of the Unaligned (BorderStone Press, 2013): The Quest of the Unaligned


Synopsis:
In the city of Tonzimmel, where hover-cars zip over anonymous crowds, contracts are king, and education is everything, Alaric has worked hard to make a decent life for himself. As a level nine security chief, he needs no one and nothing, and is in control of his fate. Or so he thinks.

When a stranger from neighboring Cadaeren suddenly appears, however, babbling of magic, quests, and long-lost princes, Alaric finds himself contractually obligated to undertake a journey that his training hasn’t prepared him for: the Quest of the Unaligned. Accompanied by Laeshana, a Cadaerian native who has reasons of her own for helping him on his quest, Alaric is soon plunged into a perilous adventure that will force him to confront a seemingly impossible truth and embrace his destiny, even as the fate of Cadaeren hangs in the balance.

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