Elizabeth Engstrom
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born
January 01, 2011
gender
female
place of birth
Elmhurst, Illinois, The United States
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Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
influences
Rod Serling, Edgar Allan Poe, John Steinbeck
member since
March 2009
about this author
Elizabeth (Liz) Engstrom grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois (a Chicago suburb where she lived with her father) and Kaysville, Utah (north of Salt Lake City, where she lived with her mother). After graduating from high school in Illinois, she ventured west in a serious search for acceptable weather, eventually settling in Honolulu. She attended college and worked as an advertising copywriter.
After eight years on Oahu, she moved to Maui, found a business partner and opened an advertising agency. One husband, two children and five years later, she sold the agency to her partner and had enough seed money to try her hand at full time fiction writing, her lifelong dream. With the help of her mentor, science fiction great Theodore Sturge...more
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Lizzie Borden by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.44 — 27 ratings — published 1991 4 editions |
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The Northwoods Chronicles (Five Star Science Fiction and Fantasy Series) by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 2008 |
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Lizard Wine by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) avg rating 2.92 — 12 ratings — published 1995 2 editions |
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Black Ambrosia by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 1988 |
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When Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1985 2 editions |
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Imagination Fully Dilated, Volume II by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) , Alan M. Clark (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2000 |
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Dead on Demand : The Best of Ghost Story Weekend by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2001 |
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Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1992 |
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Candyland by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2008 |
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Suspicions by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2002 |
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upcoming events
Orycon
Author appearance, November 27, 2009 12:00AM
Portland Double Tree Hotel at Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah Street, Portland, OR, The United States
http://www.orycon.org/orycon31/
Oregon's premiere science fiction convention. I'll be launching a reprint of my ...more
Author appearance, November 27, 2009 12:00AM
Portland Double Tree Hotel at Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah Street, Portland, OR, The United States
http://www.orycon.org/orycon31/
Oregon's premiere science fiction convention. I'll be launching a reprint of my ...more
Purple Shards (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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A short ghost story which first appeared in the Dead on Demand anthology
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Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, #4) by Naomi Novik bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Sound of Building Coffins (Hardcover) by Louis Maistros (Goodreads author) |
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gave The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth' Children #1) by Jean M. Auel |
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"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened."
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
""In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine." "
— —Great Law of the Iroquois
— —Great Law of the Iroquois
















































