Maybe You've Heard of Me? Fifteen Fantastical Tales of Famous Figures

by Laura Resnick
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Publish Date: March 31, 2011
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In this collection of fifteen of her previously published short stories, Campbell Award winning fantasy author Laura Resnick riffs on the fantastical misadventures of the famous and infamous, both human and otherwise. Robin Hood experiences supply and demand problems, Merlin the Magician tries to turn a recalcitrant musician into a war leader, a lonely boy meets the Loch Ness Monster, Ramses the Mediocre hires a spin wizard to turn him into Ramses the Great, King Arthur looks for meaning in his life as he faces his death, the world's most famous consulting detective assists a bloodsucking client who wants to be immortalized by an Irish novelist, and Santa tries to find work in a tropical clime for the abominable snowman. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

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Laura Resnick

Award-winning author Laura Resnick has sold more than twenty books in several genres. She has also published nearly fifty short stories, as well as dozens of articles and columns.

Resnick's epic fantasy novels include The White Dragon and The Destroyer Goddess, which made the "Year's Best" lists of Publishers Weekly and Voya. Under the pseudonym Laura Leone, she is the author of romance novels such as Fever Dreams, which Romantic Times named as a "Top Pick," and Fallen from Grace, which was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America's prestigious Rita Award.

Resnick is also the author of A Blonde in Africa, a nonfiction book about her eight-month journey across the continent. She is currently finishing an MSJ degree, after which she will go to Israel on a Wilhelm Scholarship as a journalism intern.

An experienced public speaker, Resnick has appeared at the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans, the World Science Fiction Convention, the Utopia conference in France, the Cincinnati Writers Project, Clinton Community College in New York, the Ohio Valley Romance Writers, the Detroit Area Romance Writers, Novelists Inc., the Pikes Peak Writers Group and the Space Coast Writers Guild.

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