Valerie ParvAbout the AuthorInternational best-selling author, Valerie Parv, has sold more than thirty-four million copies of her books. They have been widely translated, including into manga, and are now available as ebooks. You can join her exciting sci-fi journey with BEACON 1, 2 and 3 plus two related novellas out now from Momentum Books.Valerie was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the arts as a prolific author and mentor to new writers. She was awarded the Australian Society of Authors' ASA Medal for her contributions to Australian writing and literary culture, and is the only Australian author to receive a Pioneer Award from RT Book Reviews, New York. She also proudly serves as an Australia Day Ambassador on her country's national day.Valerie loves stretching her writing wings and has written over 90 novels and non-fiction titles, dozens of short stories in major magazines, and has a movie script currently in preproduction. She has set a number of books in her fictional island kingdom of Carramer, the backdrop for BEACON BIRTHRIGHT, featuring what fantasy author, Erica Hayes calls, "aliens and evil astronauts". The State Library of New South Wales collects Valerie's literary papers, and she wasdescribed by New Woman magazine as "One of the planet's most widely read romance fiction writers."Visit Valerie's web page at http://www.valerieparv.comShe loves meeting readers on Twitter @ValerieParv on Facebook and on her First Monday blog http://www.valerieparv.wordpress.com