Sarah A. Hoyt


Sarah A. Hoyt is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction writer. She moved to the United States in the early 1980s, married Dan Hoyt in 1985, and became an American citizen in 1988.
She won the 2011 Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel for her science fiction novel Darkship Thieves, and the 2018 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel for Uncharted, which she co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson. She has written under the noms de plume Sarah D'Almeida, Elise Hyatt, Sarah Marques, Laurien Gardner, and Sarah Marques de Almeida Hoyt.

Biography

Hoyt was born on November 18, 1962 in the village of Granja, Águas Santas, Maia and grew up in Porto, Portugal. Educated in both Portugal and the United States, she graduated from University of Porto, with a Master's equivalent in Modern Languages and Literatures with a major in English and a minor in German. She also speaks Swedish, Italian and French, with varying degrees of fluency. Married in 1985 to Dan Hoyt, she has two sons. She became a United States citizen in 1988 in Charlotte, North Carolina. As of 2016, she lives in Colorado.

Writing

Hoyt has described her writing as "no genre is safe from me." She has published more than 30 novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical. The first book in her Shakespearean fantasy series, Ill Met by Moonlight was a finalist for the 2002 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.
Her Musketeers series begins with Death of a Musketeer, a Mystery Book Club selection and includes three other titles from Berkley Prime Crime.
Her favorite genre, however, remains science fiction, and Hoyt is a prolific writer whose short stories have been published in Analog, Asimov's, Weird Tales, and a number of anthologies from DAW and Baen. Her shapeshifter series include Draw One in the Dark and Gentleman Takes a Chance, urban fantasy adventures, from Baen Books. Also from Baen Books is her Darkship series beginning with Darkship Thieves, winner of the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction.
The British Empire series takes place in a parallel world, where history from Charlemagne to Queen Victoria parallels ours but is actuated through the workings of magic and not by science and technology. The series consists of three books: Heart of Light, which takes place in Victorian Africa; Soul of Fire, which unfolds in India; and Heart and Soul, which enmeshes itself in the chaos of 19th century China.
Under the house name Laurien Gardner, she has written Plain Jane for Jove Books Historical Fiction. She also edited the anthology Something Magic This Way Comes.
She has also written a series of mysteries centered on furniture refinishing under the pen name of Elise Hyatt. These stories are set in the same city of Goldport, Colorado as her shifter series, with some characters appearing in both series.
Her novel Uncharted with Kevin J. Anderson won the Dragon Awards for Best Alternate History Novel in 2018. A review in Locus described it as "filled with not only slambang adventures but also a kind of rational optimism that has become rare in genre works these days."
More recently, she was featured on a podcast, The Future and You. Produced by Stephen Euin Cobb, the show featured Sarah de Almeida Hoyt, David Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Travis Taylor, and Stephen L Antczak. She was Guest of Honor at the 2019 LibertyCon.
Hoyt is a regular contributor to the Instapundit blog and The Libertarian Enterprise, as well as an online columnist at PJ Media.

Arcane America series

  1. Uncharted with Kevin J. Anderson

    Darkship series

  2. Darkship Thieves
  3. Darkship Renegades
  4. A Few Good Men
  5. Through Fire
  6. Darkship Revenge

    Furniture Refinishing series

Works in this mystery series were released under "Elise Hyatt".
  1. Dipped, Stripped, and Dead
  2. French Polished Murder
  3. A Fatal Stain

    Magical British Empire series

  4. Heart of Light
  5. Soul of Fire
  6. Heart and Soul

    Magical Empires series

Works in the Three Musketeers series were released under "Sarah D'Almeida".
  1. Death of a Musketeer
  2. The Musketeer's Seamstress
  3. The Musketeer's Apprentice
  4. A Death in Gascony
  5. Dying by the Sword

    Shakespearean Fantasy series

  6. Ill Met by Moonlight
  7. All Night Awake
  8. Any Man So Daring

    Shifter series

  9. Draw One in the Dark
  10. Gentleman Takes a Chance
  11. Noah's Boy
Works in this series were released under "Sarah Marques".
  1. Sword & Blood
  2. Royal Blood

    Historical romance

Hoyt has received the following awards and honors:
YearOrganizationAward title,
Category		WorkResultRefs
2002LocusLocus Award,
Best First Novel		Ill Met by Moonlight
2002Mythopoeic SocietyMythopoeic Award,
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature		Ill Met by Moonlight
2011Libertarian Futurist SocietyPrometheus Award,
Best Libertarian SF Novel		Darkship Thieves
2013Libertarian Futurist SocietyPrometheus Award,
Best Libertarian SF Novel		Darkship Renegades
2014Libertarian Futurist SocietyPrometheus Award,
Best Libertarian SF Novel		A Few Good Men
2018Libertarian Futurist SocietyPrometheus Award,
Best Libertarian SF Novel		Darkship Revenge
2018Dragon ConDragon Award,
Best Alternate History Novel		Uncharted
with Kevin J. Anderson