Title: Nancy Varian Berberick
Content:  Nancy Varian Berberick (born 1951) is an American fantasy author well known for her work in the Dragonlance series.
Title: Stormblade (novel)
Content:  Information from Stormblade by Nancy Varian Berberick, published by Penguin Books copyright owned by TSR inc 1988. ISBN: 0-14-011648-6
Title: Son of the Shadows
Content: Son of the Shadows entry on official Juliet Marillier website ; Son of the Shadows entry on US publishers (Tor and Forge Books) web site ; In-depth interview with Juliet Marillier at Writer Unboxed, where Juliet also blogs. ; Review of Son of the Shadows by fantasy author Victoria Strauss 
Title: Victoria Valentine
Content:  Victoria Valentine (born January 18, 1954) is an American writer, poet, entrepreneur and book publisher. She is a long-time resident of Dutchess County and graduated Pleasantville High School (New York) in 1972. Her work has been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, India and South Africa. Victoria Valentine is the author of The Cutest Little Duckie, and co-author of At the Stroke of Midnight, 24 Tales of Terror. She is also the founder, publisher and editor of Skyline Publications, launched in September 2001.
Title: Nancy Varian Berberick
Content:  Her Wizards of the Coast biography mentions that she is fond of going through a thesaurus. She enjoys Beowulf, Norse mythology, and Orlando Innamorato. She has written 12 fantasy novels, eight of which have been in the Dragonlance saga, and numerous short stories.
Title: Stormblade (novel)
Content:  Stormblade is the second novel in the Heroes trilogy of the Dragonlance novels. It was written in 1988 by Nancy Varian Berberick who also wrote many short Dragonlance stories for Dragon magazine.
Title: Victoria Mixon
Content:  Victoria Mixon is an American independent fiction editor and writer. She was co-author of the first published book on introducing children to the Internet, and has written four books on the craft of writing fiction.
Title: Victoria Scott
Content:  Victoria Scott is an American writer of young adult fiction novels. She's the author of Titans and the Fire & Flood series published by Scholastic Press, as well as the Dante Walker trilogy published by Entangled Teen. Victoria's novels have been bought and translated in eleven foreign markets.
Title: Varsha Dixit
Content:  She has described herself as a "voracious" fiction reader. She originally intended to write a book on serial killers but finding it impossible to maim or kill anyone, even on paper, she penned a romantic story instead. She resides in the U.S with her family.
Title: Victoria Strauss
Content:  Victoria Strauss (born 1955 in Exeter, New Hampshire) is the author of nine fantasy novels for adults and young adults, including the Stone series (The Arm of the Stone and The Garden of the Stone) and the Way of Arata series (The Burning Land and The Awakened City). She has written hundreds of book reviews for magazines and ezines, including SF Site and Fantasy magazine, and her articles on writing have appeared in Writer's Digest and elsewhere. In 2006, she served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards. An active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, she is a co-founder, with AC Crispin, of the Committee on Writing Scams, and serves as its vice-chair. She maintains the Writer Beware website and blog, which provide information and warnings on writing related schemes, scams, and pitfalls. For this work, she received the SFWA Service Award in 2009. She was also honored in 2012 with an Independent Book Blogger Award.

Question: Who is the author of Variant?
Answer: Robison Wells.