Alyx J Shaw lives in Vancouver in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, with a cat, three guinea pigs, two tarantulas and a loyal house-duck. There is also a husband in there somewhere, last seen in the vicinity of his b-grade sci-fi movies.

Alyx has had a varied career as a roofer, tree feller, radio station technician, book reviewer and editorial writer for Angles newspaper, TV and movie extra, and single parent of a boy who has since grown up to be a man with a wife and a son, a house, two cars, speaks two languages, and can’t possibly be the same kid who used to wear ice skates to chop wood on the rug.

Despite having an obsession with cigars, making medieval honey wine and watching cartoons and home fix-it shows, Alyx manages to still find roughly eleven hours a day in which to write fantasy and force it on helpless publishers.

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