About the Chronicler

By Xanxa Symanah

Sarah Xanxa Wallace (AKA Xanxa Symanah) has always been involved in creative writing.  In fact, before she learned to read and write, she would make up stories, telling them to anyone who would listen, or simply reciting them to herself when she lacked an audience.


She is also a poet, having had some of her poetry published in an anthology which was brought out by a Brasilian University publishing house.  Some of her poems have also featured on drug abuse awareness websites, youth club websites and other creative communities online.



Her main areas of work are epic and urban fantasy.  She has written seven fantasy novels with the collective title The Virian Chronicles and is currently working on offshoot novels collectively entitled The Virian Companions and The Vyrdigaan Prophecies.  You can find her novels on Amazon US and Amazon UK



She is married to the home-based progressive rock musician Ian Wallace (You can find him on Reverbnation) and she wrote a novella to accompany one of his albums, The Presence, telling the story of the concept in her own words.  The novella was distributed with the first batch of CDs released but is now only available in ebook format.

Besides creative writing, she has a keen interest in science-fiction movies and TV shows, travel, languages and music.

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