J.A. Andrews

J.A. Andrews is a bestselling fantasy fiction author best known for the “Keeper Chronicles” series of novels. She grew up loving math, writing, and science but never once considered ever becoming a professional author. As a young girl and teen, everyone encouraged her to go into the sciences and since her father was an engineer, a career in STEM seemed a logical choice. As a teen, Andrews majored in engineering but soon after joining college discovered that it was not that much fun given that most of it was about measuring and deciding if a bolt was thick enough to support a bridge. The only engineering that got her fancy was aerospace engineering as she had developed a love for fantasy fiction and working in space science was the closest she could get to fantasy. While some physical laws apply in space, there are places with no atmosphere and very weak gravity that it is not the irresistible force on Earth which makes things quite interesting. It was a fulfillment of her fantastical dreams of being able to design craft that travel in such weird environments. But once she was done with college, she realized that rocket scientists were not in high demand and hence she took a step down by becoming a telecommunications engineer. She did not like it much and when she had her first baby, she had the perfect excuse to bail and try something else. JA Andrews published her debut novel “A Threat of Shadows” the first of the “Keeper Chronicles” series in 2016.