Vanessa Wells is the author of the Seventeen Stones and Topeka series, as well as the Editor of Spirit and a contributor to Adventure in Creation. She has recently published the Unofficial Sherlock Cookbook with Katherine Luttmer (a nod to the immortal Sherlock Holmes and his varied incarnations). She is currently working on the next installment in the Seventeen Stones series, The Magus (Coming July 2015). Vanessa lives with her daughter deep in an enchanted forest (in Texas). Her hobbies include writing, reading, writing some more, and cooking. She battles daily infestations of plot bunnies...and dust bunnies, but that's another matter entirely.