Mande Matthews

Mande Matthews is an American author and was born in Colville Washington in the United States. She is writes Romance, Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy. While a student at a performing arts college for arranging and writing, Mande was greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell’s Masks of God series. Mande’s life-long quest, to create original new worlds for her readers, is founded on her strong desire to understand humanity through myth and legend together with her interest in fantasy fiction. Mande is a hermit at heart and often recedes into the realms of imagination from where she occasionally emerges to face the real world with the help of her companions, her husband and several feathered, furred, and mostly magical friends. Mande Matthews has been influenced in her work by the works of Joseph Campbell, Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, Marion Zimmer Bradley Jo and a several other writers. She is the author of the Shadow Light Saga and the Queen’s Honor mini-series. She has also co authored the Epic series together with Kate Thomas, Chrissy Peebles, and W.J. May.