Andrea K. Höst

Andrea K. Host is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author born in Sweden but currently living in Sydney. She spends much of her time admiring her garden full of weeds, gaming, and writing the books that she loves to read. The novels she likes are usually science and fantasy fiction works that take a “zero-difference” perspective to issues of sexuality, race, and gender and are set in fantastical worlds. In between, she may be found battling Sydney traffic while going to her day job and feeding her cat. Somehow, she has managed to publish more than fifteen novels spread between six novels. However, she is best known for the “Touchstone Trilogy” that she launched with the novel “Stray” that was first published in 2011. Most of her novels are self-published after she had a bad experience trying to publish the traditional way. It was a frustrating process and so she decided to step back from the process and just write her novel for fun. Host then opted to write a fiction blog since she had always loved the diary format given that one would not have to follow the traditional conventions of writing. She soon found herself recording every day with all its relevant and irrelevant details. When she showed it to a schoolgirl who loved reading the genre, she so loved it that she knew she had something. She published her debut novel “Champion of the Rose” in 2010.