Sarah Hoyt

Sarah A. Hoyt is an author who also writes under the names Sarah D'Almeida and Elise Hyatt.

Hoyt was born on November 18, 1962 in the village of Granja, Águas Santas, Maia near Porto, Portugal, a major port city on the Atlantic coast. Educated in both Portugal and the United States, she graduated from University of Porto, with a Master's equivalent in Modern Languages and Literature with a major in English and a minor in German. She also speaks Swedish, Italian and French, with varying degrees of fluency. Married in 1985 to Dan Hoyt (a science fiction author and mathematician [1]), she has two teenaged sons. She became a United States citizen in 1988 in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a member of Mensa, SFWA, MWA, and RWA. She was the first female member of the Associação Atlética de Aguas Santas (the sports club in Aguas Santas Maia).

As of 2016, she lives in Colorado.

Hoyt writes fiction in various genres. Most notably, the first book in her Shakespearean fantasy series [1] Ill Met by Moonlight [2], was a finalist for the 2002 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award [3] (which was instead won by Lois McMaster Bujold).

Her Musketeer's series [4] begins with Death of a Musketeer [5], a Mystery Book Club selection and includes three other titles from Berkley Prime Crime.

Her favourite genre, however, remains science fiction and fantasy, and Hoyt is a prolific writer with dozens of short stories published. [6] Her shapeshifter series [7] include Draw One in the Dark and Gentleman Takes a Chance, urban fantasy adventures [8], from Baen Books. Also from Baen Books is her Darkship series beginning with Darkship Thieves, winner of the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction.

The British Empire Series [9] takes place in a parallel world, where history from Charlemagne to Queen Victoria parallels ours but is actuated through the workings of magic and not by science and technology. The series consists of three books: Heart of Light, which takes place in Victorian Africa; Soul of Fire, which unfolds in India; and Heart and Soul, which enmeshes itself in the chaos of 19th century China.

Under the house name Laurien Gardner, she has written Plain Jane for Jove Books Historical Fiction. She also edited the anthology Something Magic This Way Comes.

She has also written a series of mysteries centered on furniture refinishing under the pen name of Elise Hyatt. These stories are set in the same city of Goldport, Colorado as her shifter series, with some characters appearing in both series.

More recently, she was featured on a podcast, The Future and You [10]. Produced by Stephen Euin Cobb, the show featured Sarah de Almeida Hoyt, David Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Travis Taylor, and Stephen L Antczak.

In collaboration with Eric Flint, she was working on a novel set in the 1632 universe (the working title was By Any Other Name). However, according to Sarah, posted on her Facebook page on Oct 31, 2012:

It has changed. It is now called "The Shakespeare Gambit" and is a "time wars" book -- which might or might not start a series. It's still grossly overdue. Problem is I need to get back into Tudor England to write it, and I haven't had the time. It is "upcoming" when Sarah gets around to it, though.