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Michael Sullivan
started his writing career at the
tender age of ten. After reading Lord of
the Rings, he decided to craft a similar
tale written on a manual typewriter found when cleaning
out his sister's closet. Over a span of fifteen
years he wrote thirteen novels, and after finding
no traction in publishing quit for nearly ten
years.
Michael's
writing spark was re-ignited when he started reading Harry
Potter with his dyslexic middle daughter. He wrote
a six-book series the Riyria Revelations which he had
no intetion on publishing.
Michael eventually self-published/indie-published the first
five of his Riyria Revelations all of which
became Amazon bestsellers in Fantasy, Epic
Fantasy, and Historical Fantasy. He sold
over 90,000 copies and they were retired in August 2011
because the series had been picked up by Orbit (fantasy
imprint of Hachette Book Group) who is republished
the books as a trilogy.
Michael was born in Detroit Michigan
and has lived in Vermont, North Carolina and
Virginia. He worked as a commercial artist and illustrator,
founding his own advertising agency in
1996, which he closed in 2005 to pursue writing full-time.
He currently resides in Fairfax, Virginia
with his wife and three children. He is currently
working on Antithesis (a fantasy set in modern
times, and a literary fiction piece, A Burden
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