Sarah A. Hoyt

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Sarah A. Hoyt
BornSarah D'Almeida
(1962-11-18) November 18, 1962 (age 61)
Granja, Águas Santas, Maia near Porto, Portugal
Pen name
  • Sarah D'Almeida
  • Elise Hyatt
  • Sarah Marques
  • Laurien Gardner
  • Sarah Marques de Almeida Hoyt
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period1997–present
Genre
Notable awards
Website
www.sarahahoyt.com

Sarah A. Hoyt (born November 18, 1962) is a Portuguese-born American science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction writer. She moved to the United States in the early 1980s, married Dan Hoyt in 1985, and became an American citizen in 1988.

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She won the 2011 Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel for her science fiction novel Darkship Thieves , and the 2018 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel for Uncharted , which she co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson. She has written under the noms de plume Sarah D'Almeida, Elise Hyatt, Sarah Marques, Laurien Gardner , and Sarah Marques de Almeida Hoyt. She was the leader of the Sad Puppies campaign in the year that it ceased nominating candidates. [1]

Biography

Hoyt was born on November 18, 1962, in the village of Granja, Águas Santas, Maia [2] [3] and grew up in Porto, Portugal. [4] Educated in both Portugal and the United States, she graduated from University of Porto, with a Master's equivalent in Modern Languages and Literatures with a major in English and a minor in German. [5] She also speaks Swedish, Italian and French, with varying degrees of fluency. Married in 1985 to Dan Hoyt (a science fiction author and mathematician), [6] she has two sons. She became a United States citizen in 1988 in Charlotte, North Carolina. [7]

Writing

Hoyt says "no genre is safe from me." She has more than 30 novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical. [8] The first book in her Shakespearean fantasy series, Ill Met by Moonlight was a finalist for the 2002 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. [9]

Her Musketeers series [10] begins with Death of a Musketeer, a Mystery Book Club selection, and includes three other titles from Berkley Prime Crime. [11]

Her favorite genre, however, remains science fiction, [12] and Hoyt is a prolific writer. Her short stories are in Analog, Asimov's, Weird Tales, and anthologies from DAW and Baen. [13] Her shapeshifter series [14] include Draw One in the Dark and Gentleman Takes a Chance, urban fantasy adventures, [15] from Baen Books. Also from Baen Books is her Darkship series beginning with Darkship Thieves, winner of the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction. [16]

The British Empire series [17] takes place in a parallel world, where history from Charlemagne to Queen Victoria parallels ours but is actuated through the workings of magic and not by science and technology. The series consists of three books: Heart of Light, set in Victorian Africa; Soul of Fire unfolds in India; and Heart and Soul in the chaos of 19th century China.

Under the house name Laurien Gardner, she has Plain Jane for Jove Books Historical Fiction. She also edited the anthology Something Magic This Way Comes.

She has a series of mysteries centered on furniture re-finishing under the pen name Elise Hyatt. These stories are set in the same city of Goldport, Colorado as her shifter series, with some characters appearing in both series.

Her novel Uncharted with Kevin J. Anderson won the Dragon Awards for Best Alternate History Novel in 2018. [18] A review in Locus [19] described it as "filled with not only slambang adventures but also a kind of rational optimism... rare in genre works these days."

More recently, she was featured on a podcast, The Future and You. [20] Produced by Stephen Euin Cobb, the show featured Sarah de Almeida Hoyt, David Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Travis Taylor, and Stephen L Antczak. She was Guest of Honor at the 2019 LibertyCon. [21]

Hoyt is a regular contributor to the Instapundit blog and The Libertarian Enterprise (ncc-1776.org).

Bibliography

All works released under the name "Sarah A. Hoyt" unless otherwise noted. Series are listed alphabetically.

Arcane America series

  1. Uncharted with Kevin J. Anderson (Baen, May 2018, ISBN   978-1-4814-8323-0)

Darkship series

  1. Darkship Thieves (Baen, January 2010, ISBN   978-1-4391-3317-0)
  2. Darkship Renegades (Baen, December 2012, ISBN   978-1-4516-3852-3)
  3. A Few Good Men (Baen, March 2013, ISBN   978-1-4516-3888-2)
  4. Through Fire (Baen, May 2016, ISBN   978-1-62579-496-3)
  5. Darkship Revenge (Baen, May 2017, ISBN   978-1-4767-8192-1)

Furniture Refinishing series

Works in this mystery series were released under "Elise Hyatt".

  1. Dipped, Stripped, and Dead (Berkley, October 2009, ISBN   9780425230787)
  2. French Polished Murder (Berkley, May 2010, ISBN   9780425233467)
  3. A Fatal Stain (Berkley, October 2012, ISBN   978-0425255230)

Magical British Empire series

  1. Heart of Light (Bantam Spectra, February 2008, ISBN   978-0-553-58966-5)
  2. Soul of Fire (Bantam Spectra, July 2008, ISBN   978-0-553-58967-2)
  3. Heart and Soul (Bantam Spectra, October 2008, ISBN   978-0-553-58968-9)

Magical Empires series

Monster Hunter International series

Musketeers series

Works in the Three Musketeers series were released under "Sarah D'Almeida".

  1. Death of a Musketeer (Berkley Prime Crime, November 2006, ISBN   0-425-21292-0)
  2. The Musketeer's Seamstress (Berkley Prime Crime, April 2007, ISBN   978-0-425-21489-3)
  3. The Musketeer's Apprentice (Berkley Prime Crime, September 2007, ISBN   978-0-425-21769-6)
  4. A Death in Gascony (Berkley Prime Crime, April 2008, ISBN   978-0-425-22101-3)
  5. Dying by the Sword (Berkley, December 2008, ISBN   978-0-425-22461-8)

Shakespearean Fantasy series

  1. Ill Met by Moonlight (Ace, October 2001, ISBN   0-441-00860-7)
  2. All Night Awake (Ace, October 2002, ISBN   0-441-00973-5)
  3. Any Man So Daring (Ace, November 2003, ISBN   0-441-01092-X)

Shifter series

  1. Draw One in the Dark (Baen, November 2006, ISBN   1-4165-2092-9)
  2. Gentleman Takes a Chance (Baen, October 2008, ISBN   978-1-4165-5593-3)
  3. Noah's Boy (Baen, July 2013, ISBN   978-1-4516-3904-9)
  4. Bowl of Red (Goldport Press, October 2021, ASIN   B0BBPS1HWB)

Vampire Musketeers series

Works in this series were released under "Sarah Marques".

  1. Sword & Blood (Prime Books, April 2012, ISBN   978-1-60701-351-8)
  2. Royal Blood (Prime Books, October 2012, ISBN   978-1-60701-363-1)

Historical romance

Other novels

Anthologies

Short story collections

Short stories

Awards and honors

Hoyt has received the following awards and honors:

YearOrganizationAward title,
Category		WorkResultRefs
2002 Locus Locus Award,
Best First Novel		Ill Met by Moonlight7 [22]
2002 Mythopoeic Society Mythopoeic Award,
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature		Ill Met by MoonlightNominated [23]
2011Libertarian Futurist Society Prometheus Award,
Best Libertarian SF Novel		 Darkship Thieves Won [24] [25]
2013Libertarian Futurist Society Prometheus Award,
Best Libertarian SF Novel		Darkship RenegadesNominated [26] [27]
2014Libertarian Futurist Society Prometheus Award,
Best Libertarian SF Novel		A Few Good MenNominated [28] [29]
2018Libertarian Futurist Society Prometheus Award,
Best Libertarian SF Novel		Darkship RevengeNominated [30]
2018 Dragon Con Dragon Award,
Best Alternate History Novel		 Uncharted
with Kevin J. Anderson 		Won [31]

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