I've heard from school teachers and students, a retired police sergeant, booksellers, a professional pet sitter, and a US Marine, among others. What truly delighted me about the response was the broad appeal. I'm grateful that so many people have been willing to give a first novel a chance. Kristen Britain: I am enormously pleased with the response to Green Rider -astonished in fact. David Langford talked to Britain about the way her ranger work helped her to write her debut.Ī.uk: Were you happy with readers' reactions to the novel? It sits squarely in the popular mainstream of fantasyland adventures but has a pleasant freshness of its own that surely owes something to the author's unusual job. This is her fantasy, at least.Īn interview with Kristen Britain.Kristen Britain's first novel Green Rider was well received by fantasy fans. She enjoys exploring the magical places around her and can often be found paddling a canoe in stillwater, ambling through the woods to mountain summits, or sitting along the rocky shore listening, watching, and daydreaming. Her many years as a park ranger enabled her to work in a variety of natural and historical settings, from 300 feet below the surface of the Earth to 13,000 feet above sea level on the Continental Divide and from the textile mills of the American Industrial Revolution to the homes of Americans who changed the course of history.Ĭurrently she lives in a log cabin in Maine where she writes full time and pursues interests reading, guitar playing, and cartoon illustration. After completing her degree in film production at Ithaca College in 1987 she made the logical (?!) leap from cinema to the National Park Service. She published her first book, a cartoon collection called Horses and Horsepeople, at the age of thirteen. Kristen Britain grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where she started her first novel - an undersea fantasy featuring herself and her friends - at the age of nine.

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