New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima wrote her first novels in junior high school. Her Heir Chronicles young adult contemporary fantasy series includes The Warrior Heir (2006), The Wizard Heir (2007), The Dragon Heir (2008), and The Enchanter Heir (2013) all from Hyperion, with one more book forthcoming.

Chima’s best-selling YA high fantasy Seven Realms series launched with The Demon King (2009), followed by The Exiled Queen (2010), The Gray Wolf Throne (2011), and The Crimson Crown (2012) .

Chima’s books have received starred reviews in Kirkus and VOYA, among others. They have been named Booksense and Indie Next picks, an International Reading Association Young Adult Choice, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, to the Kirkus Best YA list, and the VOYA Editors’ Choice, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, and Perfect Tens lists. They appear on numerous state reading lists and have won the South Carolina and Ohio Teen Book Awards. Translation rights have been sold in ten countries overseas.

Chima lives in Ohio with her family, and is always working on her next novel. She often addresses writing questions and concerns on her website and blogs. Visit her at www.cindachima.com or her blog at http://cindachima.blogspot.com/. She’s on Twitter @cindachima and Facebook www.facebook.com/CindaWilliamsChima