AUTHOR

S.A. Watson – S.A. is short for Shannon Anne, (that’s right, she was a bard from birth) – has always loved history, mystery, and poetry. When she was a little girl, she fashioned poems in her head while doing her backyard chores. She read obsessively, mostly about Indigenous and Colonial America. She spent long hours in her room, writing and illustrating books of folded paper. She produced plays, acting them out in costume, alone or with the neighborhood children. Always, always, she created.

Now, Watson is an award-winning poet and author. Her poetry is in the Library of Congress and on audio. Many other poems are written expressly for and included in her works of fiction.

Watson has several series in the works. The first, The Annals of Anavere, a series of twelve novels, explores the history behind the legends of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot. For it, Watson translated every name in the Arthurian corpus: personal, tribal, place-names, weapons, and other objects, such as the names of Arthur’s dog, Gawain’s sword, Avalon, Camelot, and the Holy Grail. So far as is known in the long history of Arthurian research and fiction, this translation has never before been accomplished. The first of The Annals – The Wanderer and the Wolves, told from the perspective of the future Queen Guinevere – will be released this fall by New Degree Press.

Watson continues to work on other series, as well as stand-alone books. As well as continuing work on The Annals, she is currently writing a series of three novels, The Haunted House Histories. A departure from Watson's usual historical fiction, this series is comprised of what Watson calls “historical ghost-stories”. A third series, The Fleur d'Lis Mysteries, begins by telling the story of Baron Gilles de Rais – one of Joan of Arc’s captains and the erroneously-titled Bluebeard – from the perspectives of Gilles, his daughter…and of an old friend, long-dead. Watson hopes to release the first of these books within the next two years.