R. J. Anderson isn't trying to hide that she's female, she just thinks initials look more writerly. According to her mother she started reading at the age of two; all she knows is that she can't remember a single moment of her life when she wasn't obsessed with stories. She grew up daydreaming about Narnia and Middle-Earth, watching Doctor Who from behind the sofa, and hanging out in her brothers' comic book shop. Now she writes novels about knife-wielding faeries, weird science, and the numinous in the modern world.Her debut novel KNIFE (aka SPELL HUNTER in the US) was longlisted for the Carnegie Award in 2009 and named one of the Canadian Library Association's Honour Books for 2011; it and sequels REBEL (aka WAYFARER in the US), ARROW (2011) and SWIFT (2012) have become UK bestsellers. Her teen thriller ULTRAVIOLET (2011) was shortlisted for the 2012 Andre Norton (Nebula) award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian SF, and was followed by a companion novel, QUICKSILVER (2013). Her latest book is NOMAD (Jan 2014, UK only).