Phantom Banjo (38 page)
Authors: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Tags: #demon, #fantasy, #devil, #devils, #demons, #music, #ghost, #musician, #haunted, #folk music, #musicians, #gypsy shadow, #folk song, #banjo, #phantom, #elizabeth ann scarborough, #songkiller, #folk songs, #folk singer, #folksingers
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the author of
22 solo fantasy and science fiction novels, including the 1989
Nebula award winning Healer’s War, loosely based on her service as
an Army Nurse in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She has
collaborated thus far on 16 novels with Anne McCaffrey, six in the
best selling Petaybee series and eight in the YA bestselling Acorna
series, and most recently, the Tales of the Barque Cat series,
Catalyst and coming in December 2010, Catacombs (from Del Rey). Her
last published solo novel was CLEOPATRA 7.2, soon to be re-released
for e-book download and print on demand by an imprint of Gypsy
Shadow Publishing.
Scarborough admits to having been a folk
music fan back when she was a child, long before it was
fashionable, throughout the Great Folk Music Scare of the 50’s and
60’s, and long after it was fashionable, up until today. She
visited the Library of Congress Folk Music Archives for the first
time while researching these books and met then-librarian Joe
Hickerson, a fine musician and songwriter, and asked him if he’d
mind dying heroically in the telling of this story while she blew
up the Folk Music Archives. Hickerson and other museum staff seemed
delighted to be so gloriously martyred and had the entire
Songkiller Saga trilogy specially bound so it could have a place in
the (thankfully not-blown-up) Folk Music Archives. Since writing
these books, Scarborough has received fan mail about them from
musicians she’s admired all of her life and has made several new
friends in the field.