L. Penelope
1 universe Last reviewed 2026-11-06
Leslye Penelope James Reaves, who writes as L. Penelope, was born on April 18, 1978, in the Bronx, New York. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and New Jersey, and settled in Maryland at age nine. She studied film and computer science at Howard University and earned a graduate degree in multimedia at Cal State Hayward, now Cal State East Bay. She works as a website developer and writer and lives in Maryland with her husband. She co-founded the literary magazine The Quotable, which ran for six years and closed in 2017, and is an independent filmmaker. Fantastic Fiction describes her as an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author. The first Earthsinger Chronicles books were self-published before St. Martin's Press took up the series. Her historical fantasy The Monsters We Defy is published by Orbit.
Universe(s)
- Core Canon books: 4
- Current rank: #937 in the official ranking
- Weighted average: 3.83
- Award recognitions: None recorded
Books
Aggregate across all universes
- Total Core Canon books across all universes: 4 books
- Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)
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Song of Blood & Stone (2015) · Earthsinger Chronicles Core Canon
Cry of Metal & Bone (2020) · Earthsinger Chronicles Core Canon
Requiem of Silence (2021) · Earthsinger Chronicles Core Canon