Gael Baudino

Gael Baudino (born 1955) is a contemporary American fantasy author who also writes under the pseudonyms of Gael Kathryns, Gael A. Kathryns, K.M. Tonso, and G.A. Kathryns. She attended college at the University of Southern California.^[1] Sometime before 1994 she converted from Dianic Wicca and became a Quaker.^[2][3] As Gael Kathryns she contributed several instructional articles about harping to the Folk Harp Journal during the 1990s.^[4]

Bibliography

The Dragonsword Trilogy

• Dragonsword (1988) ISBN 1-55802-003-9
• Duel of Dragons (1991) ISBN 0-451-45097-3
• Dragon Death (1992) ISBN 0-451-45147-3

The Strands Series

• Strands of Starlight (1989) ISBN 0-451-16371-0^[5]
• Maze of Moonlight (1993) ISBN 0-451-45230-5
• Shroud of Shadow (1993) ISBN 0-451-45294-1
• Strands of Sunlight (1994) ISBN 0-451-45408-1
• Spires of Spirit (1997) ISBN 0-451-45568-1 - A collection of six short stories set in the "Strands" universe.

The Water! series

• O Greenest Branch! (1995) ISBN 0-451-45449-9
• The Dove Looked In (1996) ISBN 0-451-45497-9
• Branch and Crown (1996) ISBN 0-451-45553-3

Standalone

• Gossamer Axe (1990) ISBN 0-451-45025-6
• The Borders of Life (1999) as G.A. Kathryns. ISBN 0-451-45574-6
• Darkling Incidence (2015) as K.M Tonso. ISBN 978-1938644245.
• Snow City (2017) as G.A. Kathryns. ISBN 978-1542858076

Short stories

• "Lady of the Forest End" - Amazons II edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1982) ISBN 0-87997-736-1
• "The Shadow of the Starlight" - published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1985), republished in 1997 in Spires of Spirit.
• "The Persistence of Memory" - published in:
  • The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (November 1985)
  • The Year's Best Fantasy 12 edited by Arthur W. Saha (1986) ISBN 0-88677-163-3
  • The Bank Street Book of Fantasy edited by Howard Zimmerman (1989) ISBN 0-671-63146-2. This is a book of short stories converted into graphic novels for early teen readers.
• "Tidings of Comfort and Joy" edited by Dennis L. McKiernan - The Magic of Christmas (1992) ISBN 0-451-45190-2
• "Before" - Lammas Night edited by Mercedes Lackey (1996) ISBN 0-671-87713-5 - this story occurs in the same setting as Baudino's novel The Borders of Life.
• "Bitterfoot" - Sisters in Fantasy 2 edited by Susan Schwartz (1996) ISBN 0-451-45503-7
• "Charity" - in Spires of Spirit.
• "Lady of Light" -in Spires of Spirit
• "A Touch of Distant Hands" - in Spires of Spirit
• "Elvenhome" - in Spires of Spirit
• "Please Come to Denver (in the Spring)" in Spires of Spirit

Nonfiction works

• The Wire Strung Primer (as Gael Kathryns) - Raging Celt Productions, Englewood, Colorado, 1991
• Interview by David V. Barrett: "Music and Magic", in Interzone Science Fiction magazine #90 (1994), page 19–22.

Recordings

• For Martha (as Gael Kathryns) - RC901 Raging Celt Productions, Englewood, Colorado, 1990 - original harp music