Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1983
  • Latest Book:
    January 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Cleopatra

1 - Channeling Cleopatra (Feb-2002)
2 - Cleopatra 7.2 (Dec-2004)

Godmothers

1 - The Godmother (Sep-1994)
2 - The Godmother's Apprentice (Dec-1995)
3 - The Godmother's Web (Feb-1998)

Songkiller Saga

1 - Phantom Banjo (1991)
2 - Picking the Ballad's Bones (1991)
3 - Strum Again? (1992)

Songs from the Seashell Archives

1 - The Unicorn Creed (Jan-1983)
2 - Bronwyn's Bane (Dec-1983)
3 - Song Of Sorcery (May-1984)
4 - The Christening Quest (Jul-1985)
5 - The Dragon, the Witch, and the Railroad (Mar-2015)
6 - The Redundant Dragons (Nov-2018)

Spam the Cat

1 - Spam Vs. the Vampire (Apr-2011)
2 - Father Christmas (Mar-2012)
3 - The Tour Bus of Doom (Oct-2012)

Tibet

Nothing Sacred (Feb-1991)
Last Refuge (Sep-1992)

V. Lovelace's Guide to the Wild West

1 - The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas (Jun-1986)
2 - The Goldcamp Vampire, or the Sanguinary Sourdough (Oct-1987)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • The Unicorn Creed

    Songs from the Seashell Archives - 1

    Book Two of Songs from the Seashell Archives In Song of Sorcery, Book 1 of Songs from the Seashell Archives, hearthwitch Maggie Brown met minstrel Colin Songsmith and a unicorn named Moonshine while saving both her sister and the kingdom. All in a qu...

  • Bronwyn's Bane

    Songs from the Seashell Archives - 2

    Sleeping Beauty had it easy. Her curse only made her take a nap when she turned 16. As if it wasn’t bad enough already that because of her frost giant heritage from her father the king’s side of the family she was 6 feet tall when she was o...

  • Song Of Sorcery

    Songs from the Seashell Archives - 3

    A portentous song sparks an unlikely adventure in this lighthearted contemporary fantasy by the Nebula Award–winning author of The Healer’s War.
      Colin Songsmith sings a song to an old witch who takes an unlikely reveng...

  • The Harem of Aman Akbar

    By his genie's standards, Aman Akbar was a pervert. He was not content to marry his cousin, the beauteous Hyaganoosh, as custom demanded. Instead he chose three ugly foreign wives--a pale skinned barbarian Rasa, a sharp-tongued Chinese acrobat, Lady ...

  • The Christening Quest

    Songs from the Seashell Archives - 4

    Going on a quest with a handsome prince might sound like a dream, but Prince Rupert’s cousin Carole comes to feel it isn’t all it's cracked up to be. Carole agrees to accompany her hunky cousin to Miragenia to christen his baby niece. But it is r...

  • The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas

    V. Lovelace's Guide to the Wild West - 1

    Determined to become an author of western penny dreadful novels like her idol, Ned Buntline, a young San Francisco newspaper editor christens herself Valentine Lovelace (after a floozie acquaintance of her father’s) and heads east for the Wild West...

  • The Goldcamp Vampire, or the Sanguinary Sourdough

    V. Lovelace's Guide to the Wild West - 2

    Pelagia Harper, aka Valentine Lovelace, published her memoirs of her time in Draco, Texas and became an established writer -- at least in her own mind. But when her father dies and her stepmother steals her royalties, she finds herself destitute. Als...

  • The Healer's War

    No one could have told Lt. Kitty McCulley that this was what it meant to be a war nurse. That she was going to Vietnam not to heal, but to ready her patients for the real pain. Not to alleviate suffering, but to become an object of contempt and misdi...

  • Phantom Banjo

    Songkiller Saga - 1

    Praise for Phantom Banjo from Booklist:This book has just about every virtue one can reasonably expect in a contemporary fantasy tale, including a vivid portrait of the contemporary folk scene and a chilling emotional impact that makes many horror no...



  • Picking the Ballad's Bones

    Songkiller Saga - 2

    A ragtag band of folksingers in possession of an enchanted banjo enters the land Great Britain, where the banjo stirs up the ghost of Sir Walter Scott, who is intent on saving the last of the folk songs...

  • Nothing Sacred

    Tibet

    In a world where unemployment is obliterated by putting all jobless people in the military to maintain the endless ongoing warfare, Warrant Officer Viveka Vanachek finds herself in a weirder place yet. Captured, raped, and interrogated she is finally...

  • Strum Again?

    Songkiller Saga - 3

    When a deep-space probe is sent out to determine the fate of its sister ship, which has become suddenly quiet, Commander Jake Ryder faces unspeakable dangers at the hands of destructive forces. Original....

  • Last Refuge

    Tibet

    In NOTHING SACRED, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough took a detour from her humorous classic and contemporary fantasies to write her obligatory science fiction writer's end-of-the-world book. The bad news is the world has ended. The good news is LAST REFUGE ...

  • The Cat-Quest of Mu Mao the Magnificent

    in Catfantastic III

    THE SECRET WORLD OF CATS is about to be revealed in this all-new collection of tales about those mysterious felines who rule the animal and human kingdoms. Whether they are intently stalking their prey, making humans cater to their every whim, or co...

  • The Godmother

    Godmothers - 1

    One day in Seattle, social worker Rose Samson donned a crystal, pendant from her friend's vintage clothing shop and made a wish for a fairy godmother to save "the whole damned city." Enter Felicity Fortune, with her silver hair, strange clothes, a...

  • The Stone of War and the Nightingale's Egg

    in Chicks in Chainmail

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • The Godmother's Apprentice

    Godmothers - 2

    A very modern fairy godmother takes a young girl under her wing in The Godmother's Apprentice Dear Rosie, Well, here I am. Ireland is beautiful, and Felicity Fortune's house is pretty nice. There's something weird about the pool, though, and the ...

  • Carol for Another Christmas

    From the Nebula Award winning author comes this modern Christmas classic.   The chief executive of a Seattle-based high-tech company, Monica Banks is a workaholic who has closed herself off to any kind of home life, family, or love. Then one sn...

  • Scarborough Fair

    in Space Opera

    Twenty original science fiction tales based on the theme of music--by such authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charles de Lint, and Gene Wolfe--include the story of a singer whose ear for music helps her fight crime. Original....



  • The Godmother's Web

    Godmothers - 3

    The award-winning author of the acclaimed Godmother novels featuring Felicity Fortune introduces a new Godmother -- a Native American woman, known simply as "Grandma," who will weave a web of unforgettable magic and change the life of one young woman...

  • The Attack of the Avenging Virgins

    in Did You Say Chicks?!

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • The Lady in the Loch

    Nebula Award-winning author of the Godmother series, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough spins a new tale -- of a town both familiar and strange. And of a man well known to generations of book lovers, brought vividly to life... As sheriff of Edinburgh, buddin...

  • Past Lives, Present Tense

    Science fiction authors resurrect a host of colorful historical characters--including Leonardo Da Vinci, Mata Hari, and Edgar Allen Poe, in a unique collection that celebrates past lives yet unlived. Original....

  • Channeling Cleopatra

    Cleopatra - 1

    Powerful. Beautiful. Seductive. Cleopatra had it all. And soon any woman will be able to share her secrets, her wiles, her ways with men--for a price. Genetic research has advanced to the stage of "blending," the transplantation of cellular memory fr...

  • Scarborough Fair and Other Stories

    Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes: "Introduction" "The Mummies of the Motorway", 2001 "Final Vows", 1998 "Whirlwinds", 1998 "Worse Than the Curse", 2000 "Boon Companion", 2002 "Long Time Coming Home", with Rick Reaser, 2002 "Mu Mao and the ...

  • Cleopatra 7.2

    Cleopatra - 2

    “A science fiction thriller that feels like a futuristic James Bond. . .The idea of two minds inhabiting one body is a fascinating premise. The way they blend together and respect each other’s personality makes Elizabeth Ann Scarborough’s lates...

  • Spam Vs. the Vampire

    Spam the Cat - 1

    A PURRANORMAL MYSTERYSpam and the other cats at website designer Darcy Dupres' house are frantic with worry. Darcy walked out the door two (missed) wet meals ago and didn't return or send anyone else to look after her beloved furry friends....

  • Mummies of the Motorway & Scarborough Fair

    Available for the first time as an ebook pairing, these two short stories by author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough serve as an mystical introduction to her work. In MUMMIES OF THE MOTORWAY, a woman and her niece and nephew travel to an English resort whe...

  • 9 Tales O' Cats

    In these stories, a parade of fascinating felines tell tales of their lives. Guinevere’s cat, Gray Jane, tells what really happened at Camelot from her cat’s eye view atop the queen’s canopy bed. An Egyptologist’s cat, Shuttle, wards off a ve...



  • Father Christmas

    Spam the Cat - 2

    Spam the cat thought he'd seen a lot of the world in his nine months of life. After all, he was the foremost vampire hunter of Port Deception, WA. (SPAM VS THE VAMPIRE)! This was his first Christmas, however, and from what he'd heard on TV, on Christ...

  • The Tour Bus of Doom

    Spam the Cat - 3

    The Tour Bus of Doom rolls into a small coastal town, spewing zombies to rampage down the main street. To the beat of eerie drum music, they loot, kidnap, and zombie-fy innocent citizens. Spam the cat, self-appointed feline defender of the town, watc...

  • Shifty

    What you see (at first) is not what you get in this collection of nine previously published tales of shape shifting and transformation. An Alaskan student of wildlife biology finds it difficult to write convincingly about what she knows. A proud and ...

  • The Dragon, the Witch, and the Railroad

    Songs from the Seashell Archives - 5

    Progress has transformed Queenston, capital city of Argonia. Once the land of witches, wizards, fairies, and other magical people and animals, since the Great War, the country has changed. Queenston, particularly, is now the city of contraptions and ...

  • After the Orange

    After the Orange? In this collection, a group of writers imagines the future by the time the alt-right and the current administration are no longer in charge, say 20 years or more into the future. Of course, science fiction writers have always tried ...

  • The Redundant Dragons

    Songs from the Seashell Archives - 6

    Queen Verity is queen only because her mother has said she has to be. She agrees because, after all, somebody has to liberate the dragons who have long toiled in the boiler room bowels of the city. Now that they are free, nobody has any idea what ...

  • The Lady in the Loch New Version

    When a woman's bones are found in the icy dregs of the noxious Nor' Loch, newly appointed sheriff of Edinburgh, Walter Scott, is called upon. Are these the remains of a drowned witch or religious heretic, or are they perhaps linked to something more ...

  • Extended Family

    Which is more dangerous -- the Civil War and Cherkokee resettlement, which wrack the divided States and destroy the only home you've ever known, or the curse upon your family? A terrific historical fantasy, and one of Scarborough's very best short st...

Award-Winning Books by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

The Healer's War
1990 Nebula Award -- Novel


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Elizabeth Ann Scarborough has published 37 books.

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Extended Family, was published in January 2022.

The first book by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Unicorn Creed, was published in January 1983.

Yes. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough has 7 series.
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