Kim Falconer (born 1954 in Santa Cruz, California) is an Australian author of YA and adult Speculative Fiction, living in New South Wales.
Falconer grew up on the once family-owned Wilder Ranch,California Reiki : Interview with Kim Falconer Retrieved 15 August 2011 and emigrated to Australia in 1981. Active as a professional writer of fantasy since 2009,Kim Falconer: HarperCollins Publishers Australia. Retrieved 15 August 2011 her two series with Harpercollins Australia are Quantum Enchantment and Quantum Encryption. Her latest urban fantasy was published by Harlequin Books Australia. Falconer has written a new, three book YA series under the pen name of A. K. Wilder - coming out 5 January 2021 with Entangled Teen in the USA.
Falconer trains in Iaido, the Japanese sword, to better choreograph her fight scenes. She claims that each of her stories begins with a grain of truth.Kim Falconer's How to Write What You Don't Know : Voyager Online. Retrieved 15 August 2011 Falconer is also an astrologer, running GoodVibeAstrology.com and has completed a Master of Arts degree in writing from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia in 2014. She was awarded the 2014 Top Graduate Prize for highest achieving graduate in the Master of Arts (Writing), the 2014 Top Student in a Unit Prize for PWR70003 Script Adaptation: Stage, Screen and Multimedia, and the 2014 Top Student in a Unit Prize for PWR80001 Critical and Creative Practices: The Writerly Identity. She writes young adult fiction under the pen name A. K. Wilder.
Family
Her son, Aaron Briggs has done the cover art for her Quantum Encryption series.
Works Novels
The Bone Throwers - Kim Falconer writing YA Fantasy as A. K. Wilder
Crown of Bones (January 5, 2021) Curse of Shadows (December, 6, 2022) Book Three (TBA)
Ava Sykes Novels
The Blood in the Beginning (July 2016)
Quantum Encryption Series
Path of the Stray (August 2010) Road to the Soul (March 2011) Journey by Night (September 2011) Tatsania's Gift (September 2012)
Quantum Enchantment Series
The Spell of Rosette (January 2009) Arrows of Time (August 2009) Strange Attractors (February 2010)
Anthologies
Blood and Water in Vampires Gone Wild-Supernatural Underground (January 2014) Astrology text
Astrology & Aptitude (2nd ed, 2005)
Short stories
Wolf Being (2010)
References
External links Kim Falconer's Author site Kim Falconer writing YA Fantasy as A. K. Wilder