Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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About Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

Sandra Ulbrich Almazan started reading at the age of three and only stops when absolutely required to. Although she hasn't been writing quite that long, she did compose a very simple play in German during middle school. Her science fiction novella Move Over Ms. L. (an early version of Lyon's Legacy) earned an Honorable Mention in the 2001 UPC Science Fiction Awards, and her short story "A Reptile at the Reunion" was published in the anthology Firestorm of Dragons. She is a founding member of BroadUniverse and a long-time member of the Online Writing Workshop for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror. Her undergraduate degree is in molecular biology/English, and she has a Master of Technical and Scientific Communication degree. Her current day job is in the laboratory of an enzyme company; she's also been a technical writer and a part-time copyeditor for a local newspaper. Some of her other accomplishments are losing on Jeopardy! and taking a stuffed orca to three continents. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband, Eugene; and son, Alex. In her rare moments of free time, she enjoys crocheting, listening to classic rock (particularly the Beatles), and watching improv comedy.

Sandra can be found online at her website, blog, and Twitter. Future projects from Sandra include a standalone fantasy story called "The Fighting Roses of Sharon"; Twinned Universes, the second book in the science fiction Catalyst Chronicles series; and Scattered Seasons, the first book in the fantasy Season Lords series.

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Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters Jan 7, 2020

by Sarena Ulibarri , Wendy Nikel , Holly Schofield , Sandra Ulbrich Almazan , Sarah Van Goethem , Steve Toase , Heather Kitzman , Tessa Fisher , Andrew Dana Hudson , Thomas Badlan

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This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems—even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community's energy source, to save a living city from a deep-rooted sickness. Some take place after an environmental catastrophe, with luxury resorts and military bases and mafia strongholds transformed into sustainable communes; others rethink the way we could organize cities, using skybridges and seascrapers and constructed islands to adapt to the changes of the Anthropocene. Even when the nights are long, the future is bright in these seventeen diverse tales.

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Scattered Seasons (The Season Avatars Book 2) Apr 28, 2015

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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Lady Gwendolyn lo Havil is an Ava Spring, born to heal others and lead the Season Avatars of her generation. Season Avatars with divine magic must work in groups of four to save the country of Challen from Chaos Season, times when all of the seasons appear at once. When the current Ava Spring dies in a riding accident, Gwen must find the other three Season Avatars she will link with. But two of them are missing, and with Gwen's own magic crippled by a cursed pottery shard, she will have to use all of her skills to find the Avatars scattered across the country of Challen. During her journey, she meets a stranger who claims to know the shard's origin. Is he truly an ally of the Season Avatars, or is he trying to stop them from uniting?

Second-world gaslamp fantasy with a unique magic system and a team of strong women.

Complete Series Now Available!
Seasons’ Beginnings (prequel): B00MQI9COY
Young Seasons (short story collection): B073V19VYW
Scattered Seasons: B00V5NHMBQ
Chaos Season: B01EE4I75W
Fifth Season: B01LXYRC2G
Summon the Seasons (preorder now available): B074V1NZQ7

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Chaos Season (The Season Avatars Book 3) May 20, 2016

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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Jenna Dorshay t’Reve isn’t your typical farmer’s daughter. Blessed with plant magic, she’s been impatiently waiting to take her place as Summer Avatar of Challen. All she and her sister Season Avatars have to do is tame a Chaos Season, a magical weather storm sent to Challen by a wrathful demigoddess. They’ve done this many times in other lives, but now dangerous plants resistant to Jenna’s magic make Chaos Season worse. Even the assistance of the War Avatar, father of Jenna’s child, may not be enough to stop the plants. Before Jenna can conquer the deathbushes and tame Chaos Season, she must fully link with the other Avatars in her quartet, but to do so means revealing a secret that can tear them apart.

Second-world gaslamp fantasy with a unique magic system and a team of strong women.

Complete Series Now Available!
Seasons’ Beginnings (prequel): B00MQI9COY
Young Seasons (short story collection): B073V19VYW
Scattered Seasons: B00V5NHMBQ
Chaos Season: B01EE4I75W
Fifth Season: B01LXYRC2G
Summon the Seasons (preorder now available): B074V1NZQ7

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Summon the Seasons (The Season Avatars Book 5) Oct 9, 2017

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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The conclusion of The Season Avatars fantasy series!

Kay might be the youngest, smallest, and least confident Season Avatar, but her weather magic makes her the most powerful of her group. Now that she also can contact the souls of dead Avatars, her quartet has a chance to end Chaos Season permanently. All Kay and her sister Avatars need are three more bones.

To obtain them, Kay’s quartet must travel across Challen, evading the King’s Watch and Selathens who want to protect their demigoddess, Salth, creator of Chaos Season. Kay’s deepest beliefs about her God and her longtime rival, Dorian, will be challenged during the trip. If she loses her faith and newfound courage, she will fail, and the rest of the Season Avatars with her.

Complete Series Now Available!

Seasons’ Beginnings (prequel): B00MQI9COY
Young Seasons (short story collection): B073V19VYW
Scattered Seasons: B00V5NHMBQ
Chaos Season: B01EE4I75W
Fifth Season: B01LXYRC2G
Summon the Seasons (pre-order now available): B074V1NZQ7

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Fifth Season (The Season Avatars Book 4) Nov 28, 2016

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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Ysabel became the Goddess of Fall’s Avatar to care for animals, but her kind heart may prove fatal to her loved ones.
When a pair of strange animals, part bird and part lizard, invade the country of Challen during a magical weather storm, Ysabel must learn if they’re ordinary creatures or if they’re connected to Salth, the Season Avatars’ sworn enemy. However, the clawfeet, as she calls them, are resistant to her magic.
After tragedy strikes the Avatars, Ysabel comes up with a desperate plan to allow all twelve of them to face Salth together as required by the Four Gods and Goddesses of Challen. Jealousy, however, tears an ally from the Avatars during their most vulnerable time as even more beasts rise against them. If Ysabel cannot control the strange animals and use justice as well as mercy, she will not only lose her position as Avatar but the people she loves.

Second-world gaslamp fantasy with a unique magic system and a team of strong women.

Complete Series Now Available!
Seasons’ Beginnings (prequel): B00MQI9COY
Young Seasons (short story collection): B073V19VYW
Scattered Seasons: B00V5NHMBQ
Chaos Season: B01EE4I75W
Fifth Season: B01LXYRC2G
Summon the Seasons (preorder now available): B074V1NZQ7

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Seasons' Beginnings (The Season Avatars Book 1) Oct 21, 2014

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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Kron Evenhanded is an artificer, able to enchant any man-made object, but he finds people more difficult to work with. After many years studying at the Magic Institute, he leaves to return to his childhood home. When he visits the city of Vistichia, he encounters Sal-thaath, an extremely magical but dangerous child created by Salth, another magician Kron knew at the Magic Institute. Kron attempts to civilize Sal-thaath, but his efforts lead to tragedy. Salth, who has gained additional magic from the stars, vows revenge against Kron and his beloved Bella. Kron is forced to ally himself with a quartet of new deities and their human Avatars, including Bella. Kron must help the new Avatars defend Vistichia as Salth attempts to drain its life and magic. But Salth has Ascended halfway to godhood over Time. Will Kron’s artifacts be enough to protect the city and the Avatars, especially the woman he loves, or will Time separate them?

Complete Series Now Available!
Seasons’ Beginnings (prequel): B00MQI9COY
Young Seasons (short story collection): B073V19VYW
Scattered Seasons: B00V5NHMBQ
Chaos Season: B01EE4I75W
Fifth Season: B01LXYRC2G
Summon the Seasons (preorder now available): B074V1NZQ7

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Lyon's Legacy: Catalyst Chronicles, Book One Oct 5, 2011

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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Sometimes being a geneticist isn’t enough to understand your family....

Joanna Lyon, descendant of the legendary TwenCen musician Sean Lyon, would rather study genes than play a guitar. Resentful being overshadowed by her famous ancestor, she hopes to establish her own identity as a scientist. Standing in her way is Uncle Jack, who controls the family fortune and insists the entire family go into music. When a wormhole opens to an alternate universe where Sean is still alive, Jack seizes the opportunity to have him cloned and hires Joanna to steal the DNA. Joanna knows that Sean will be murdered and his clone exploited. To save them, she will have to come to terms with her heritage, face her immediate family in her home universe, and take on a role she never expected to play, a role that could block her from her dreams.

A novella of about 36,000 words.

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Life at Seventeen Syllables a Day: A Journal in Haiku Mar 23, 2014

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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A collection of haiku written from March 18, 2013, to March 18, 2014. One poem was written every day and inspired by something the author saw or experienced that day. Some poems are literal while others are symbolic. Almazan hopes this collection will inspire you to find more poetry in your daily life.

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Twinned Universes (Catalyst Chronicles Book 2) Mar 2, 2013

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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Aspiring actor Paul Harrison is devastated when his mother dies under suspicious circumstances. However, he’s the only one who believes his great-uncle was involved. Determined to learn the truth, Paul concocts a wild plan to trick a confession out of Great-Uncle Jack by impersonating their legendary ancestor Sean Lyon. Good thing Paul is Sean’s clone. To perfect his act, Paul needs to travel to an alternate universe where Sean is still alive—but due to be murdered soon. If Paul is to achieve justice for all, he must risk not only his own life, but the wormhole connecting Sean’s universe to his own.

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Young Seasons: A Season Avatars Short Story Collection (The Season Avatars) Jul 9, 2017

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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The country of Challen depends on its Season Avatars to tame a recurring storm that mixes up the seasons. A quartet of magic-users, each with a different type of magic, reincarnate with skills and memories from previous lives but face new challenges whenever they’re reborn. Now, a child faces a healing task that would daunt someone much older. A fourteen-year-old is pursued by enemies in her sleep. An animal lover must protect her kitten from her disapproving family. An impatient farm girl tries to get the attention of her true love, only to have the wrong person respond. Before Gwen, Kay, Ysabel, and Jenna can come together as Season Avatars, first they must survive independently as Young Seasons.

A short story collection set between Seasons' Beginnings and Scattered Seasons. Includes an excerpt from Scattered Seasons.

Complete Series Now Available!
Seasons’ Beginnings (prequel): B00MQI9COY
Young Seasons (short story collection): B073V19VYW
Scattered Seasons: B00V5NHMBQ
Chaos Season: B01EE4I75W
Fifth Season: B01LXYRC2G
Summon the Seasons (preorder now available): B074V1NZQ7

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Hidden Histories (Third Flatiron Anthologies Book 25) Apr 15, 2019

by Juliana Rew , Bruce Golden , Kai Hudson , Matthew Reardon , Brenda Kezar , Brian Trent , Jonathan Shipley , Dantzel Cherry , Sarah Hinlicky Wilson , John A. Frochio , Edwina Shaw , Dennis Maulsby , Michael Robertson , Mike Barretta , Ricardo Maia , J.D. Blackrose , Arthur Carey , Sandra Ulbrich Almazan , Elizabeth Beechwood , Robert Dawson , James Chmura , Tony Genova , Simon Lee-Price , Shannon McDermott , Jennifer Lee Rossman , H. J. Monroe , Evan A. Davis , Tyler Paterson , A. Humphrey Lanham

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Third Flatiron Anthologies feature multiple winners of science fiction and fantasy reader polls and recommended reading lists.

Hidden Histories is a new speculative fiction anthology with the themes of alternate and secret (shadow) histories.

In Hidden Histories, agents of the ancient Library of Alexandria attempt to steer human history, a witch at the stake explains how she was framed, a missing airliner black box turns up, General Custer is defeated by wendigos, Queen Elizabeth tells Shakespeare she was cursed, a seance saves the Apollo-13 moon mission, an alien ambassador mentors Jimi Hendrix, a competing ship line plots to scuttle the Titanic, were-boars fight Nazis in WW2 Germany, the back room of a bookstore holds histories written in the future, and a girl learns the true history of Chinese dragons. These and many more stories entertain while exploring revisionist interpretations of real and fictional events.

Hidden Histories presents 28 original stories from an international group
of contributors. Writers include Bruce Golden, Matthew Reardon, Brenda
Kezar, Kai Hudson, Brian Trent, Jonathan Shipley, Dantzel Cherry,
Edwina Shaw, Dennis Maulsby, Michael Robertson, Mike Barretta, Ricardo
Maia, J.D. Blackrose, John A. Frochio, Arthur Carey, Sandra Ulbrich
Almazan, Elizabeth Beechwood, Robert Dawson, James Chmura, Tony
Genova, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Simon Lee-Price, Shannon McDermott,
Jennifer Lee Rossman, H. J. Monroe, Evan A. Davis, Tyler Paterson, and
A. Humphrey Lanham. Edited by Juliana Rew.

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Rob's Choice: A Short Story Set in Challen (The Season Avatars) Jan 5, 2019

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

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A short story of about 6,000 words, set after Summon the Seasons.

All his life, Rob has wanted to dedicate himself to the God of Summer. But when he tries to do so, he discovers the Four Gods and Goddesses of Challen have different plans for him. How can he serve Them and his own wishes at the same time? And what does his strange vision have to do with the barren country of Selath?

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