Ysabeau S. Wilce

Author profile

website

http://www.yswilce.com/

genre

Young Adult, Children's Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy

About this author

Ysabeau S. Wilce was born in the City of Califa at the age of one. While her parents were on a diplomatic mission to the Huitzil Empire, she was cared for by an uncle what brought her up by hand. She attended Sanctuary School as a scholarship girl and then spent three years at the University of Califa where she took a double degree in Apotropaic Philosophy and Confabulation.

She then became laundress to Company C, Enthusiastic Regiment of the Army of Califa, and accompanied her unit to Fort Gehenna, Arivaipa Territory. While in Arivaipa she was bitten by a wer-flamingo; only the timely intervention by the local curandero saved her from an awful skin-shifting pink fate.

After returning to Califa to recuperate, Ysabeau was employed by the Calif...more Ysabeau S. Wilce was born in the City of Califa at the age of one. While her parents were on a diplomatic mission to the Huitzil Empire, she was cared for by an uncle what brought her up by hand. She attended Sanctuary School as a scholarship girl and then spent three years at the University of Califa where she took a double degree in Apotropaic Philosophy and Confabulation.

She then became laundress to Company C, Enthusiastic Regiment of the Army of Califa, and accompanied her unit to Fort Gehenna, Arivaipa Territory. While in Arivaipa she was bitten by a wer-flamingo; only the timely intervention by the local curandero saved her from an awful skin-shifting pink fate.

After returning to Califa to recuperate, Ysabeau was employed by the Califa Society for Historiography and Graphic Maps as an archivist. It was then she first developed an interest in the history of the Republic and began researching the City’s past.

After losing her position during the Great Bureaucratic Budgetary Freeze of ’07 she took a position as pot-girl at the Mono Real coffee bar, and during her free time began on the first volume of Califa in Sunshine and Shade: A Glorious History of A Glorious Republic. "Volume I: Metal More Attractive" appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine January of that same year, and was followed by "Volume II. The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" the next year. Other monographs on incidents in Califa history followed, until the publication of the first full length volume Flora Segunda Being the Magical Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), A House with Eleven Thousand Rooms and a Red Dog, which is available from your local bookmonger now.

In her spare time, Ysabeau enjoys chewing, sleeping, gossiping, and folding paper-towels into napkins. She currently resides in the City of Porkopolis with her husband, a cheese-swilling financier, and a dog that is not red. She does not have a butler.

Comments, compliments, critiques, and bon mots may be addressed to denizen@yswilce.com where they will be duly noted, but not necessarily heeded.

To receive random updates on Ysabeau's projects and projections, please join her exclusive private mailing list. Special reports will be intermittent but very informative and entertaining.(less)

37 posts
Ysabeau S. Wilce's Blog

Ysabeau S. Wilce isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

WANTED: Lead Singer to co-front four piece band Califa's ...

WANTED: Lead Singer to co-front four piece band Califa's Lip Rouge. Influences: Tygers of Wrath, Les Fauvres, Crash Worship, Halycon Turnip, Weatherhead, and Lotta Love. Must be able to hit G10. Must be stylish, tall, and pliant. Must be willing to carry heavy equipment. Must have experience with glamours, retroactive enchantments, and excitory catalysts. Apply in person to The Zu-Zu, Abenfarax... read more »

View more on Ysabeau S. Wilce's website »

0 comments

•

like 1 like

•

Published on May 18, 2012 19:17 • 8 views

View all 37 posts »

combine editions
Books by Ysabeau S. Wilce

Average rating: 3.80 · 2,399 ratings · 625 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Flora Segunda (Flora Trilogy, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 1,204 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Flora's Dare (Flora Trilogy, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Flora's Fury (Flora Trilogy, #3) 4.29 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Flora Fyrdraaca (Flora Trilogy Book 1&2) 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by Kelly Link (Editor), Gavin J. Grant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Garth Nix (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gavin J. Grant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly Link (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 by Bill Fawcett (Editor), Kevin J. Anderson (Contributor), Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Contributor) 3.30 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition by Rich Horton (Editor), M. Rickert, David J. Schwartz 3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Best Short Novels by Jonathan Strahan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chris Roberson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michael Swanwick (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

More books by Ysabeau S. Wilce…

Series by Ysabeau S. Wilce

Flora Trilogy (3 books)
by Ysabeau S. Wilce

3.83 avg rating — 1,636 ratings

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Ysabeau S. Wilce

“People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce

tags: funny , twilight , van-halen

14 people liked it

“After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora Fyrdraaca

tags: fantasy , history

3 people liked it

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Wild Things: YA G...: YA Reading Challenge #2 - Tasks and Discussion	218	451	Oct 02, 2009 03:31pm
Challenge: 50 Books: Alycia's books 2009	229	555	Dec 28, 2009 12:41pm
Wild Things: YA G...: September NOMINATIONS are OPEN!!!!	50	117	Sep 05, 2010 07:44pm
SciFi and Fantasy...: Which authors are on your "buy on sight" list	47	145	Feb 06, 2011 08:23pm
Wild Things: YA G...: Latest Splurge	234	259	Feb 22, 2011 08:28pm
Young Adult Ficti...: buy books-before or after you read them?	29	65	Apr 07, 2011 08:52am
SciFi and Fantasy...: What are you reading in March 2011?	211	283	Apr 09, 2011 08:53am

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Ysabeau to Goodreads.

Ysabeau's Fans (62)