Author of the young adult fantasy debut novel ‘SABERWING‘, a 92K word empowerment romantasy.
As a first generation college graduate from a working class family, I experienced both class and culture shock when I earned my undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College and my graduate degree from the London School of Economics. I’m a former ballet/ice skater/ballroom dancer whose closet is crammed with over two dozen pairs of Argentine Tango shoes, all of which get regular exercise.
I currently live in the San Francisco Bay area and have been working full-time in the interactive entertainment industry since 2005. I was first introduced to the craft of storytelling in 2008 as an employee of Lucasfilm Ltd where I enrolled in every art, photography, and design class I could talk myself into. Surrounded by visual effects artists from Industrial Light & Magic and video game designers and writers from LucasArts, I attended panel discussions with directors James Cameron, Guillermo del Torro, Michael Bay, and Gore Verbinski. After joining PlayStation in 2013, I began teaching myself the craft of storytelling, helped along in the early day by YouTube video essayists Michael Tucker (‘Lessons from the Screenplay‘) and Tim Hickson (‘Hello Future Me‘).
Inspired by the original ‘Game of Thrones‘ TV series, I imagined what would happen if a protagonist as interesting, underestimated, and powerful as Daenerys Targaryen was taken out of a medieval European context and dropped into a more fanciful storyworld like Harry Potter. The idea was so rich in possibilities that I started to combine elements from other fantasy series such as ‘How to Train Your Dragon‘ and ‘The Hunger Games‘.
In 2016 began outlining ‘SABERWING’ during my lunch breaks, evenings, and weekends, and in 2021 began working with KHM Editing to bring my vision to life on the page.
I am actively querying literary agents for representation, so if you have recommendations or are an agent interested in my work, I would love to hear from you! Please contact me at info (at) darteyn (dot) com
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