This naturally led to the desire to write her own stories that had resolutions and characters that suited her tastes. As a book a day reader, Host particularly loved to tell stories where women and girls took center stage. It all started when she was gifted a small typewriter as a high schooler and began writing her fantasy.

She had always been a voracious reader and her reading was a huge inspiration for her to tell her own stories. She started writing as a fifteen-year-old when she wrote an epic fantasy collection quest that had all the usual invading armies,’ princes, faceless evils, spaceships, dwarves and elves. She published her debut novel “Champion of the Rose” in 2010.Īndrea always loved to write though she never thought of making a career as an author while she was growing up. When she showed it to a schoolgirl who loved reading the genre, she so loved it that she knew she had something. She soon found herself recording every day with all its relevant and irrelevant details. Host then opted to write a fiction blog since she had always loved the diary format given that one would not have to follow the traditional conventions of writing. It was a frustrating process and so she decided to step back from the process and just write her novel for fun. Most of her novels are self-published after she had a bad experience trying to publish the traditional way. However, she is best known for the “Touchstone Trilogy” that she launched with the novel “Stray” that was first published in 2011. Somehow, she has managed to publish more than fifteen novels spread between six novels. In between, she may be found battling Sydney traffic while going to her day job and feeding her cat.

The novels she likes are usually science and fantasy fiction works that take a “zero-difference” perspective to issues of sexuality, race, and gender and are set in fantastical worlds. She spends much of her time admiring her garden full of weeds, gaming, and writing the books that she loves to read. Host is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author born in Sweden but currently living in Sydney.

Medair by Andrea K. Höst