Award-winning author Vijaya Schartz writes action, adventure, paranormal, with romantic elements, in exotic, fantasy, historical, or science fiction settings.
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She pioneered Romantic Science fiction action romance with the ANCIENT ENEMY series and THE CHRONICLES OF KASSOUK Series, as well as single titles like Snatched and Alien Lockdown. Her Byzantium series is set on a space station. Her latest series AZURA CHRONICLES, is set on a forbidden planet populated with angels. Her stories portray strong heroines, brave heroes, and often cats.
Her Medieval Fantasy Romance series, The Curse of the Lost Isle is based on authentic Celtic legends. The series is edgy and doesn't sugarcoat the middle ages. Reader beware.
She also writes contemporary romantic suspense and even shape shifters. Her novels gathered many awards and five-star reviews. Ashes for the Elephant God, set in India, was once considered for a feature film. All of Vijaya's books are available in many formats everywhere.
Vijaya Schartz started writing at age six. As early as sixteen, she studied unexplained phenomena, secret societies and UFO sightings in Europe. Later, she traveled the world and lived in a monastery in India, where she translated spiritual texts from English into French for publication. Daredevil since a young age, she became a gymnast in France, a surfer and a martial artist in Hawaii, a climber in the Himalayas, a rough water rider on the Colorado River, and a skydiver in Eloy, Arizona. She traveled extensively and while writing many novels, she published articles and short stories in various Magazines, in England and in America. Now Vijaya writes mainly Romantic Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives near Phoenix, Arizona, with her latest rescue cat, King Pasha.
Birth Place
Acheres (78), France
Accomplishments
In 2019, her novel ANGEL FIERCE won first prize in the Arizona Literary Awards for fiction. WHITE TIGER won several awards, some for its stunning cover. Previously, Vijaya Schartz won second place in the 2001 Independent Publishers awards in visionary fiction for ASHES FOR THE ELEPHANT GOD.
Noah's Ark placed in the Golden Quill 2013. Black Jaguar finaled in the Golden Quill Awards 2011, Both White Tiger and Red Leopard received awards from The Hope Chest Review. Vijaya's Anaz-voohri, was nominated for the 2006 Reviewers Choice Award at Cataromance and finaled in the Golden Quill Awards. Vijaya's novels RELICS also finaled in the Golden Quill Awards.
Her novels also received a slew of five star reviews from professional reviewers worldwide.
From Beauty Queen to international gymnast and martial artist, from exhibiting her paintings to a successful acting career in France, Vijaya Schartz has won it all. She speaks several languages, assumed the presidency of the prestigious ARIZONA AUTHORS ASSOCIATION for seven years and won an award for outstanding service as President of this non-profit organization. She also hosted Authors' Secrets Radio for four years, and this show won best talk show on BCRN in 2002. She is a fiction reviewer for various magazines, and has been editor in chief of the Arizona Literary Magazine.
In 2006, Vijaya received the Desert Rose Award for outstanding contributions toward furthering the growth of the Romance Writers of America, Phoenix Chapter, giving unselfishly of her time and knowledge to fellow members, and her continuing encouragement in helping them achieve the realization of their dreams.
Favorite Links
Vijaya Schartz
visit my website, find out where you can meet me at a book signing, see the scope of my published novels, see what I'm working on now. and when the next novel will be released.
My sci-fi romance blog
Learn about all things Sci-fi and fantasy Romance and about my life as an author.
My upcoming books
See what I'm up to, and what's coming later this year and next year.
A medieval fantasy series in the works
From history shrouded in myths, emerges a family of immortal Celtic Ladies, who roam the medieval world in search of salvation from a curse. For centuries, imbued with hereditary gifts, they hide their deadly secret, stirring passions in their wake as they fight the Viking hordes, send the first knights to the Holy Land, give birth to kings and emperors... but if the Church ever suspects what they really are, they will be hunted, tortured, and burned at the stake.
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