name: Margaret Ball
genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction
influences:  Georgette Heyer,  Connie Willis,  Lois McMaster Bujold,  Jane Austen
avg_rating: 3.84
ratings_count: 23785
about: Margaret Ball lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and near two grown children. She has a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas. After graduation, she taught briefly at UCLA, then spent several years honing her science fiction and fantasy writing skills by designing computer software and making inflated promises about its capabilities. She has written a number of science fiction/fantasy novels as well as two historical novels, and is currently working on a science fiction series to be released on Kindle and in paperback in the fall of 2017. She would love to be influenced by Connie Willis and the other authors listed but fears that is mainly wishful thinking.