SINNERS AND SAINTS is Book Two in the Blood & Bone series and is a direct follow up to LIFE AND LIMB. The latest is the publication of SINNERS AND SAINTS (yay!), and I’m currently working on SWORD-BEARER, the eighth Sword-Dancer novel.Ĭan you tell us when you started SINNERS AND SAINTS, how that came about? In fact, that was the Cheysuli series, and it was indeed published beginning in 1984 with SHAPECHANGERS. I developed a series, and decided I’d write the volumes for me even if I could never get any sold. I’d been reading the genre for many years but hadn’t written any because I felt I couldn’t do it justice. I continued writing, and after four novels I finally decided to try fantasy. I sent it out to publishers, but never made a sale. I wrote my first novel at the age of 14, one of your typical girl-and-her-horse young adult novels. I was a diehard reader, so it was a natural progression. What inspired you to pen your first novel? It was a moving visit and also eye-opening. She said it offered escape, and she was very grateful.

Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.Ī woman came to one of my signings to tell me how my first novel, SHAPECHANGERS, had supported her while she visited her terminal husband in the hospital. I was born in Kansas City, MO, but moved to Phoenix when I was 4. Where were you born and where do you call home? Non-fantasy novels and the short story collection are available via e-book format. The DAW and Kensington novels are available in all formats including Audible recordings. Roberson has also published an historical romance, romantic suspense, and Western, and the fantasy short story collection Guinevere’s Truth + Other Tales. Novels in other genre include three historicals from Kensington: Lady of the Forest and its sequel, Lady of Sherwood, reinterpretations of the Robin Hood legend with emphasis on Marian’s role and a Scottish novel based on the documented 18th-century Massacre of Glencoe, Lady of the Glen. Roberson also collaborated with fantasy bestsellers Melanie Rawn and Kate Elliott on World Fantasy Award finalist The Golden Key. In the 38 years since then, working closely with DAW's Hugo Award-winning editor and publisher Betsy Wollheim, Roberson has written three bestselling fantasy series, including the Cheysuli novels, the 8-volume Sword-Dancer saga, the Karavans books, and in November 2019 debuts Life and Limb, the first volume in the ongoing Blood & Bone modern fantasy series.

Fifteen years later, DAW Books published Shapechangers, the first novel in the 8-volume Chronicles of the Cheysuli, and a career was born. Her mother, equally book-obsessed, told her to go for it. At the age of 14, with the oblivious confidence of adolescence, Jennifer Roberson informed her mother she was going to write a book.

Lady Of Sherwood by Jennifer Roberson