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Diana Kemp-Jones
Featured Author August 2000
It's said that some people have their heads in the clouds. In the case of science fiction author, Diana Kemp-Jones, her head can be found beyond this world into the realm of stars somewhere to the left of Alpha Centauri.
Born in Toronto, Canada, to a British father and Greek Cypriot mother, Diana was an imaginative only-child prone to creating fantasy worlds. In early elementary school, her talent for writing materialized in the guise of gruesome short stories such as the Goushy Green Eyeball. Inspired by the original Star Trek series, her love for science fiction later displayed itself in epic length stories for her English composition class.
Though Diana's family emigrated to the US when she was a young girl, a passion for travel took her to Canada, Britain, Scotland, France, Greece, Cyprus and Israel during and after her college years. She eventually moved to England where she lived and worked for several years. A course with the London School of Journalism rekindled her long simmering interest in writing and prompted her to purchase her first, primitive word processor. Having explored and subsequently discarded the realm of more traditional jobs, she returned to the States and devoted herself to pursuing her true path as a writer.
An admitted eccentric, Diana is an ardent swimmer, animal lover and fan of ethnic cuisine. Her surroundings are a rather bizarre mix of Art Deco, modern and Southwestern generously interspersed with chaos and clutter. Glow in the dark stars vie with Star Trek memorabilia. Books spill from cabinets onto the floor. A telescope lurks in the office closet.
Diana has two CD books published by Books On Screen - Sisters of the Wind, a science fiction collection and Subterranean Heartbeats, a paranormal collection. Dystopic Visions, a dark science fiction collection, will soon begin production. These collections will also be published in audio format by TimeFare Audio Books. A fourth project, a science fiction novel, Kiyama, is currently under production by TimeFare.
A collaborative science fiction novel, Destiny, Embracing the Skull, Book 1 of the Destiny Series, has just been accepted by ClockTower Fiction.
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