Background
Mrs. Bohnhoff was born in Davis, California, United States, on February 9, 1954. She was the daughter of Henry Theodore (in the Air Force) and Mae Jean (a vocalist; maiden name, Wessa) Harber.
5100 Sierra College Blvd, Rocklin, CA 95677, USA
Maya studied at Sierra College in Rocklin, California, United States.
5100 Sierra College Blvd, Rocklin, CA 95677, USA
Maya studied at Sierra College in Rocklin, California, United States.
(In bookshop specializing in rare volumes, an avid fan of ...)
In bookshop specializing in rare volumes, an avid fan of horror fiction seizes a tome too valuable and too incredible to fathom. In the end, the man was too curious to live.
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2006
(After meeting a mysterious girl and being spirited away t...)
After meeting a mysterious girl and being spirited away to another world, Kyoichi Utsume manages to return, but when he meets her again as a teenager, things between the two worlds are never the same.
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2007
(The world has changed-forever. Across America, technology...)
The world has changed-forever. Across America, technology has been eclipsed by magic, and people are changing into the embodiments of their darkest desires and deepest fears. In this new time, former lawyer Cal Griffin has united a small group of outcasts to battle the chaos.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FCKODQ/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Visit a future San Francisco in which Golden Gate Park an...)
Visit a future San Francisco in which Golden Gate Park and the Presidio are thriving farms, luxury hotels are the palaces of neighborhood kings and book shops are treasuries of wisdom. This is the world of Taco Del, Merlin to His Majesty, King of Embarcadero.
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2009
(The Mer Cycle begins… In the twenty-fifth year of the rei...)
The Mer Cycle begins… In the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Cyne Colfre, a fifteen year-old girl named Mereddyd-a-Lagan sought to wield powers reserved, until now, for men. Would she attain the station of Osraed … or die a heretic like the one who went before her? “
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2012
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2012
(The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated ...)
The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated the Jedi. The few remaining who still wield the Force for good have been driven into exile or hiding. But not Jax Pavan, who’s been steadily striking blows against the Empire-as a lone guerrilla fighter and a valued partner of Whiplash, a secret Coruscant-based resistance group.
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2013
(In the Year Without a Summer, a group of mad geniuses des...)
In the Year Without a Summer, a group of mad geniuses descended on Geneva. In an attempt to save the body and mind of George Gordon, Lord Byron, they performed a dreadful and forbidden experiment that forever changed history-and tore their own lives apart.
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2013
(They said Meredydd-a-Lagan was a fluke—a rebellious girl ...)
They said Meredydd-a-Lagan was a fluke—a rebellious girl who went to the Meri’s Sea in defiance of tradition. She was no fluke. She trod the path of Taminy-a-Cuinn, the girl who sought the Meri one hundred years before.
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2013
(She is the sign of God on earth; she is the personificati...)
She is the sign of God on earth; she is the personification of evil. She is the rebirth of the religion of Caraid-land; she is its complete undoing. Some call her Taminy-Osmaer—Divinely Glorious. Some call her Taminy-Wicke and ward against her. Which of these is the petite seventeen-year-old who has fled with her followers to the high crags of the Gyldan-Baenn?
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2013
(The soul of the poet who would be king still seeks immort...)
The soul of the poet who would be king still seeks immortality — but will it find a home? And will that home be flesh or steel? Revisit the shared Victorian world of transferable souls and intelligent machines introduced in The Shadow Conspiracy.
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2016
Mrs. Bohnhoff was born in Davis, California, United States, on February 9, 1954. She was the daughter of Henry Theodore (in the Air Force) and Mae Jean (a vocalist; maiden name, Wessa) Harber.
Maya Bohnhoff attended Sierra College.
Maya is a writer and instructional software designer. Mrs. Bohnhoff served as a manager of instructional design at Kelly Services, Nevada City, CA, 1994-1995. She was a former director of development, ComTrain, Inc. (developers of training software). Mrs. Bohnhoff is also known to be a singer, songwriter, with two self-produced albums. She was a member of Local Spiritual Assembly of Nevada County, S.W.
Maya Bohnhoff is now a full-time writer, working alone and in collaboration with Michael Reaves. Mrs. Bohnhoff has written several dozen short stories and novelettes in most of the well known publishing magazines: Analog magazine, Interzone (magazine), Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Jim Baen's Universe, and others. Many of them have a recognizable relationship to religions — several have a significant basis in relation to the Bahá'í Faith and a few use Pagan (Spirit Gate), Catholic (Infinite Space, Infinite God), and Moslem (The Sons of the Fathers) characters or situations.
In addition to her shorter works Maya Bohnhoff has written several full-length novels which elaborate on her interests in examining/promoting feminist and religious concepts in science fiction, fantasy and related genres. Her most well known novel may be The Meri which became a trilogy and has been published twice (1992 and 2005). Mrs. Bohnhoff has worked in a number of venues to contribute to the field of authorship and relevance of Science Fiction and Fantasy at SciFi/Fa Conventions. She has participated in and moderated panel discussions for over a decade. She participates in the Museitup online writers conference and the Catholic Writers' Conference, and is a founding member and regular blogger at the Book View Café, a fiction website created by a cooperative of over 20 professional genre writers as an alternative publishing venture.
Though Maya Bohnhoff's interest in music as a career stretches back to her high school years and her mother, her avocation as a musician was started by 1980 when she was a member of a band called "Talisman" playing a mix of original progressive rock and top 40 and got some airtime on KZAP, a radio station in Sacramento, California. The Bonhoffs later reformed as part the band "Syntax" through which they released a cassette tape "Silent Planet" in 1990 — "Syntax" using a substantial amount of MIDI based music. They were introduced to filk music in 1991 and predominantly use acoustic guitars in their live shows.
In 1991 the Mrs. Bohnhoffs had been invited to a science fiction convention for Maya's "Hand-me Down Town" publication in Analog magazine because Maya was up for the Nebula Award. At a party for the event Jeff had the opportunity to a jam session with founding filk musicians Dr. Jane Robinson, Cynthia McQuillin and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. After other conventions mostly for Maya's writing, Jeff and Maya were spontaneously invited to play music at the 1995 Baycon by Kathy Mar. It was after a long evening of music that they wrote "Knights in White Satin". Filk and parody have become their main musical presence, though now they perform through their own production company, MysticFig and as a duo predominantly.
Mrs. and Mr. Bohnhoff have given concerts at various science fiction conventions and conference for many years and have won awards doing so. They have attended conventions Norwescon, Worldcon, LepreCon, Consonance, OryCon, the Ohio Valley Filk Fest and others. They have produced a quartet of CDs through their own production company. They also play often at the local Bahá'í events and Centers. Maya also participated in a panel discussion "Intro to Filk - Who are those people sing weird songs?" at the 1997 OryCon and "Steal That Tune - Filkers have borrowed tunes from folk sources, rock singers, Broadway shows, you name it. And not all of the results are parodies...." with her husband and others.
(The soul of the poet who would be king still seeks immort...)
2016(After meeting a mysterious girl and being spirited away t...)
2007(Visit a future San Francisco in which Golden Gate Park an...)
2009(The Mer Cycle begins… In the twenty-fifth year of the rei...)
2012(In bookshop specializing in rare volumes, an avid fan of ...)
2006(They said Meredydd-a-Lagan was a fluke—a rebellious girl ...)
2013(In the Year Without a Summer, a group of mad geniuses des...)
2013(She is the sign of God on earth; she is the personificati...)
2013(The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated ...)
2013(The world has changed-forever. Across America, technology...)
2009
Quotations:
"I prefer the soft sciences to the ‘hard’ ones. Sociology, psychology, archaeology, anthropology — these are the areas I like to explore in my stories. I’m more interested in what goes on inside a character than outside and I’m less intrigued by technology than in our reaction to it and use of it. I find religion particularly interesting and I like to explore how a character’s—or a culture’s— spiritual nature affects thought and behavior."
"My fiction often explores the human psyche and how it responds to different situations: the advent of world peace, homelessness, genetic disorders, being constantly uprooted for the sake of a parent’s career, the advent of a prophet or Avatar, encroaching insanity, the commission of an act of great evil or great good. The series of fantasies completed by my third novel— The Meri, Taminy, and The Crystal flew—explore a number of spiritual issues—the appearance of a divine messenger, the nature of spirituality and the female struggle for equality among them."
"The most important thing about the product of my writing process is getting the emotional content of the scenes taking place on the page. That’s hard for me, because my natural inclination is to edit myself as I write, struggling for just the right word or turn of phrase. To keep myself from falling into that trap, I keep the words of Ray Bradbury in mind at all times. To wit, DON’T THINK. Writing is one thing, editing is another. Get down the emotions, the atmosphere, the essence of what you are going to say. Get down the ideas and sift through for the right words later."
Maya Bohnhoff married Jeffrey Bohnhoff (a musician) in June 20, 1981. They have three children. Two of them are called Alex Sumner, Kristine Avery.
