   anne bishop is an american fantasy writer. her most noted work is the black jewels series. she won the crawford award in 2000 for the first three black jewels books, sometimes called the black jewels trilogy: daughter of the blood, heir to the shadows, and queen of the darkness. ==biography== born in 1955, anne bishop started her writing career by publishing short stories.bishop, "short stories". she is best known for her award-winning novels, the black jewels trilogy,bishop, "black jewels". daughter of the blood, heir to the shadows, and queen of the darkness. bishop has also created the tir alainn trilogy,bishop, "tir alainn". and the landscapes of ephemera series.bishop, "ephemera". she is currently residing in upstate new york working on the others,bishop, "the others" her newest series of which the first two books, written in red and murder of crows are available in the united states and canada. many of her novels are also available internationally.bishop, "book list". she lives in upstate new york. ==works== ===series=== speculative fiction series constitute most of bishop's published work. ;black jewels the first volume of the original trilogy, and first novel set in the black jewels universe, daughter of the blood, was published in march 1998. heir to the shadows and queen of the darkness, published in april 1999 and january 2000, completed the trilogy. an omnibus edition was released in 2003. also in 2000, bishop released her first stand alone novel for the black jewels universe, the invisible ring. taking place prior to the trilogy itself, readers were able to pick up the novel either before or after reading the trilogy, though bishop recommends reading it after. in 2005, bishop then released the book of four short stories known as dreams made flesh. once again, this collection of short stories allowed a reader to taste the rich universe bishop had created without needing to have read the core trilogy. although, reading the trilogy added to the depth of the individual short stories and vice-versa. 2008 brought about another stand-alone novel, tangled webs. then i
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