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  <name><![CDATA[S.A. Rule]]></name>
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  <fans-count type="integer">7</fans-count>
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  <about><![CDATA[Sue Rule lives in Kent, in south east England.  As well as being an author, she is a songwriter and musician: one quarter of local family folk group Pig’s Ear. http://www.pigs-sty.com

She has been writing bits of the fictional history of Shehaios since she first dreamed up the world and its rather prosaic magic in the early 1970’s. The intervening years spent learning and perfecting her craft have culminated in the “Shaihen Heritage” series. The series grows out of Sue’s love of history and folklore, and tracks the fictional history of an imagined world which is not unlike our own. One or two little accidents of evolutionary history make all the difference – there are dragons in the mountains, and in every generation of the Shaihen people there is one individual with the gifts of a Magician. 

http://www.shehaios.co.uk
Shaihen Heritage Book 1: Cloak of Magic was published in February 2006 by Authors on line.

Shaihen Heritage Book 2: Staff of Power will be published in January 2009 by Pegasus Elliott 

Shaihen Heritage Book 3: Spirit of Shehaios is work in progress.

In her “day job” , Sue Rule is Director of Sales and Marketing for SMS Ltd., a specialist software management consultancy. http://www.measuresw.com. 

Sue is also an organiser of musical events, and is the leading light in organising a small annual folk music festival at the Kentish Horse pub, Markbeech, near Edenbridge. http://www.folkale.co.uk


]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Matthew Kneale; TH White, Anon, Tolkien, CS Lewis, Allan Massie, Antonia Fraser, Terry Pratchett....the list is endless! Shakespeare. My English teacher, Miss Ryder.]]></influences>    <hometown>Croydon</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Cloak of Magic (Shaihen Heritage Book 1)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Staff of Power (Shaihen Heritage Book 2)]]></title>
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