Sandra Ulbrich Almazan: 16 books

Are you wondering where your next epic fantasy read will come from? How about steampunk, science fiction, or urban fantasy? If you're interested in discovering new books and authors, this guide will help you. Sandra Ulbrich Almazan combines her own reading experiences, general information about over...

Kron Evenhanded is an artificer, able to enchant any man-made object, but he finds people more difficult to work with. After many years studying at the Magic Institute, he leaves to return to his childhood home. When he visits the city of Vistichia, he encounters Sal-thaath, an extremely magical but...

When the seasons are mixed up, only the Avatars can set them straight... In the country of Challen, Season Avatars work together to tame Chaos Season, a magical weather storm that mixes up the seasons randomly. Initially invested with magic in the Bronze Age, a quartet of women are reincarnated...

A Catalyst Chronicles short story, set between Lyon's Legacy and Twinned Universes. All Joanna wants to do is entertain her children for a couple of hours on their trip to Earth. The multi-story bouncy house promises to be fun, but someone else stalks them, someone wearing Joanna's face. Will Joanna escape with both children, or will her son fall prey to the Mommy Clone?

Two short stories set in the science fiction Catalyst Chronicles series. Both stories are set on the spaceship Sagan. Please note these stories are set during the book Twinned Universes and contain spoilers for that book. "A Solstice in Space"--Cass would like to celebrate the winter...

Sometimes being a geneticist isn’t enough to understand your family.... Joanna Lyon is the great-granddaughter of the legendary TwenCen musician Sean Lyon. She may have inherited her ancestor's musical talent, but her parents' bitter divorce and her Uncle Jack's attempts to remake her into...

A collection of haiku written from March 18, 2013, to March 18, 2014. One poem was written every day and inspired by something the author saw or experienced that day. Some poems are literal while others are symbolic. Almazan hopes this collection will inspire you to find more poetry in your daily life.

Every spring, Marthe's town is covered with illusions by silver rain, but she's the only one who can't see them. When a handsome poet shares his verses with her, she learns to appreciate beauty. However, everyone else stares at her poet as if they know something she doesn't. What is truth and what...

A fantasy short story of about 5,000 words. When the Greek god Cupid visits Verona, he foresees no problems uniting the Montague and Capulet families. But when Elisabeth Capulet and Giovanni Montague's love ends in tragedy, Elisabeth places a powerful curse not on just the families, but Cupid...

The conclusion of the Season Avatars series! Kay might be the youngest, smallest, and least confident Season Avatar, but her weather magic makes her the most powerful of her group. Now that she also can contact the souls of dead Avatars, her quartet has a chance to end Chaos Season permanently....

Ysabel became the Goddess of Fall’s Avatar to care for animals, but her kind heart may prove fatal to her loved ones. When a pair of strange animals, part bird and part lizard, invade the country of Challen during a magical weather storm, Ysabel must learn if they’re ordinary creatures...

Jenna Dorshay t’Reve isn’t your typical farmer’s daughter. Blessed with plant magic, she’s been impatiently waiting to take her place as Summer Avatar of Challen. All she and her sister Season Avatars have to do is tame a Chaos Season, a magical weather storm sent to Challen by a wrathful...

Paul Harrison always wanted to play Hamlet, but he never expected he’d live the role first. In the aftermath of a family tragedy on 21st century Earth, Paul discovers he’s the clone of Sean Lyon, his great-great-grandfather and a famous TwenCen musician. Suspecting his mother’s death...

The country of Challen depends on its Season Avatars to tame a recurring storm that mixes up the seasons. A quartet of magic-users, each with a different type of magic, reincarnate with skills and memories from previous lives but face new challenges whenever they’re reborn. Now, a child faces a...