Alma Alexander is a pen name. I was born Alma A. Hromic on the shores of the river Danube in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. At the age of 10 my family moved to Africa where we spent 20 years.
I graduated from the University of Cape Town with an MSc in Microbiology in 1987 but quickly left the lab in order to write. I moved to New Zealand in 1994 where I wrote Houses in Africa, an amusing memoir of my life in Africa.
The same year, I published The Dolphin's Daughter and Other Stories,a bestselling book of three fables.
In 1999, when NATO launched a war against my native country, I started an often-tumultuous e-mail correspondence with R. A. "Deck" Deckert, a freelance writer and former newsman. Our correspondence became the basis of an epistolary novel about these dramatic events, Letters from the Fire. This book went from concept to publication in fewer than five months.
I married Deck in June, 2000, and now live in the northwestern United States.
My fantasy duology The Hidden Queen and Changer of Days was released in the United States in 2005. A fantasy set in a fictional medieval China, The Secrets of Jin-shei, has been published in 14 languages. The follow-up, Embers of Heaven, is available in five languages. My Worldweavers young adult trilogy debuted with Gift of the Unmage in 2007 and was followed by Spellspam in 2008 and Cybermage in 2009.
Two new manuscripts are with my agent and I'm currently working on another YA series.
Brainstorming
Outlining
Researching
Writing
Revising
Querying
Preparing to Publish
Under Contract
Publishing
Promoting
Blogging
In Between Projects
