Michelle Levigne got her first taste of fantasy fiction with the Cat in the Hat books, and graduated to "harder stuff" with a graphic novel version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in a Sunday School paper in elementary school. She has a BA in theater/English and an MA in Communications, focusing on film and writing, along with the 2-year correspondence course from the Institute for Children's Literature. She was heavily involved in fandom for several years and has more than 40 short stories to her credit in various fan magazines and universes, including Star Trek, The Phoenix, Stingray, Highlander, Starman, V, and Beauty & the Beast (live action TV show). Her first professional sale was in conjunction with winning first place in the quarterly Writers of the Future Contest. "Relay" was published in Volume VII. Since then, she has published nearly forty SF/Fantasy and Contemporary romance novels and novellas through various electronic publishers, with several books pending future publication. Most of these books are in the SF universe called The Commonwealth. The Bainevah Series is her second foray into historical/fantasy/romantic fiction.