Sarah A. Hoyt Explained

Sarah A. Hoyt
Birth Name:	Sarah D'Almeida
Birth Date:	18 November 1962
Birth Place:	Granja, Águas Santas, Maia near Porto, Portugal
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	American
Period:	1997–present

Sarah A. Hoyt (born November 18, 1962) is a Portuguese-born American science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction writer. She won the 2011 Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel for her science fiction novel Darkship Thieves, and the 2018 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel for Uncharted, which she co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson. She has written under the noms de plume Sarah D'Almeida, Elise Hyatt, Sarah Marques, Laurien Gardner, and Sarah Marques de Almeida Hoyt. She was the leader of the Sad Puppies campaign in the year that it ceased nominating candidates.^[1]

Biography

Sarah de Almeida was born on November 18, 1962, in the village of Granja, Águas Santas, Maia^{[2] [3]} and grew up in Porto, Portugal.^[4] Educated in both Portugal and the United States, she graduated from University of Porto, with a Master's equivalent in Modern Languages and Literatures with a major in English and a minor in German.^[5] She also speaks Swedish, Italian and French, with varying degrees of fluency. Married in 1985 to Dan Hoyt (a science fiction author and mathematician),^[6] she has two sons. She became a United States citizen in 1988 in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[7]

Writing

Hoyt says "no genre is safe from me." She has more than 30 novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical.^[8] The first book in her Shakespearean fantasy series, Ill Met by Moonlight was a finalist for the 2002 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.^[9]

Her Musketeers series^[10] begins with Death of a Musketeer, a Mystery Book Club selection, and includes three other titles from Berkley Prime Crime.^[11]

Her favorite genre, however, remains science fiction,^[12] and Hoyt is a prolific writer. Her short stories are in Analog, Asimov's, Weird Tales, and anthologies from DAW and Baen.^[13] Her shapeshifter series^[14] include Draw One in the Dark and Gentleman Takes a Chance, urban fantasy adventures,^[15] from Baen Books. Also from Baen Books is her Darkship series beginning with Darkship Thieves, winner of the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction.^[16]

The British Empire series^[17] takes place in a parallel world, where history from Charlemagne to Queen Victoria parallels ours but is actuated through the workings of magic and not by science and technology. The series consists of three books: Heart of Light, set in Victorian Africa; Soul of Fire unfolds in India; and Heart and Soul in the chaos of 19th century China.

Under the house name Laurien Gardner, she has Plain Jane for Jove Books Historical Fiction. She also edited the anthology Something Magic This Way Comes.

She has a series of mysteries centered on furniture re-finishing under the pen name Elise Hyatt. These stories are set in the same city of Goldport, Colorado as her shifter series, with some characters appearing in both series.

Her novel Uncharted with Kevin J. Anderson won the Dragon Awards for Best Alternate History Novel in 2018.^[18] A review in Locus^[19] described it as "filled with not only slambang adventures but also a kind of rational optimism... rare in genre works these days."

More recently, she was featured on a podcast, The Future and You.^[20] Produced by Stephen Euin Cobb, the show featured Sarah de Almeida Hoyt, David Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Travis Taylor, and Stephen L Antczak. She was Guest of Honor at the 2019 LibertyCon.^[21]

Hoyt is a regular contributor to the Instapundit blog and The Libertarian Enterprise (ncc-1776.org).

Bibliography

All works released under the name "Sarah A. Hoyt" unless otherwise noted. Series are listed alphabetically.

Arcane America series

1. Uncharted with Kevin J. Anderson (Baen, May 2018,)

Darkship series

1. Darkship Thieves (Baen, January 2010,)
2. Darkship Renegades (Baen, December 2012,)
3. A Few Good Men (Baen, March 2013,)
4. Through Fire (Baen, May 2016,)
5. Darkship Revenge (Baen, May 2017,)

Furniture Refinishing series

Works in this mystery series were released under "Elise Hyatt".

1. Dipped, Stripped, and Dead (Berkley, October 2009,)
2. French Polished Murder (Berkley, May 2010,)
3. A Fatal Stain (Berkley, October 2012,)

Magical British Empire series

1. Heart of Light (Bantam Spectra, February 2008,)
2. Soul of Fire (Bantam Spectra, July 2008,)
3. Heart and Soul (Bantam Spectra, October 2008,)

Magical Empires series

• Witchfinder (Goldport Press, April 2014,)

Monster Hunter International series

• Monster Hunter Guardian with Larry Correia (Baen, August 2019,)

Musketeers series

Works in the Three Musketeers series were released under "Sarah D'Almeida".

1. Death of a Musketeer (Berkley Prime Crime, November 2006,)
2. The Musketeer's Seamstress (Berkley Prime Crime, April 2007,)
3. The Musketeer's Apprentice (Berkley Prime Crime, September 2007,)
4. A Death in Gascony (Berkley Prime Crime, April 2008,)
5. Dying by the Sword (Berkley, December 2008,)

Shakespearean Fantasy series

1. Ill Met by Moonlight (Ace, October 2001,)
2. All Night Awake (Ace, October 2002,)
3. Any Man So Daring (Ace, November 2003,)

Shifter series

1. Draw One in the Dark (Baen, November 2006,)
2. Gentleman Takes a Chance (Baen, October 2008,)
3. Noah's Boy (Baen, July 2013,)
4. Bowl of Red (Goldport Press, October 2021,)

• Night Shifters (omnibus edition of Draw One in the Dark and Gentleman Takes a Chance) (Baen, June 2014,)

Vampire Musketeers series

Works in this series were released under "Sarah Marques".

1. Sword & Blood (Prime Books, April 2012,)
2. Royal Blood (Prime Books, October 2012,)

Historical romance

• Plain Jane (as Laurien Gardner) (Jove Books Historical Fiction, July 2008,)
• No Will But His: A Novel of Kathryn Howard (Berkley, April 2010,)

Other novels

• A Touch of Night: Pride, Prejudice and Dragons with Sofie Skapski (Naked Reader Press, August 2010,)

Anthologies

• Something Magic This Way Comes with Martin H. Greenberg (DAW, March 2003,)

Short story collections

• Crawling Between Heaven and Earth (Dark Regions, September 2002,). Contains the following new stories:
  • "Ariadne's Skein"
  • "Crawling Between Heaven and Earth"
  • "The Green Bay Tree"
  • "Thy Vain Worlds"
• Wings (Dark Regions, May 2008,, ebook)
• Here Be Dragons (Goldport Press, May 2015, ebook only)
• Dragon Blood (Goldport Press, October 2016,)
• So Little and So Light (Goldport Press, July 2018, ebook only)

Short stories

• "Thirst" (as by Sarah Marques de Almeida Hoyt) in Bloodsongs #4 (Bambada Press, Autumn 1995)
• "Plaudit Cives" in Absolute Magnitude, Summer 1998 (DNA Publications)
• "Not for Thee the Glow" in Pirate Writings #18 (DNA Publications, Summer 1999)
• "Like Dreams of Waking" in Dark Regions/Horror Magazine, Summer 1999 (Dark Regions Press)
• "Elvis Died for Your Sins" in Weird Tales, Spring 2000 (DNA Publications, April 2000)
• "If I Lose Thee..." with Rebecca Lickiss in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds III (Pocket Books, May 2000,), Grand Prize Winner
• "Another George" in Dark Regions #15 (Dark Regions Press, Winter/Spring 2000)
• "Songs" in Weird Tales, Spring 2001 (DNA Publications/Terminus)
• "Dear John" in Absolute Magnitude, Summer 2001 (DNA Publications)
• "The Blood Like Wine" in Dreams of Decadence #15 (DNA Publications, Autumn 2001)
• "Trafalgar Square" in Analog, November 2001 (Dell Magazines)
• "The Play and the Thing" in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination #22 (DNA Publications, Winter 2001)
• "For Whose Dear Sake" in Dreams of Decadence #17 (DNA Publications, Summer 2002)
• "The Muse's Darling" in Apprentice Fantastic (DAW, November 2002,)
• "Never Look Back" in Weird Tales, Winter 2002 (DNA Publications/Terminus)
• "Traveling, Traveling" in Analog, July/August 2003 (Dell Magazines)
• "The Blonde" in Book of Final Flesh (Eden Studios, July 15, 2003,)
• "The Play Is the Thing" in The DNA Helix (DNA Publications/Wildside Press, July 2003,)
• "Wings" in Paradox #3 (Paradox Publications, Autumn 2003)
• "What She Left Behind" in Asimov's, March 2004 (Dell Magazines)
• "Yellow Tide Foam" in Faerie Tales (DAW, May 2004,)
• "Ganymede" in Oceans of the Mind #12 (Trantor Publications, Summer 2004)
• "After the Sabines" in Amazing Stories, March 2005 (Paizo Publishing)
• "Eighty Letters, Plus One" with Kevin J. Anderson in The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures (Carroll & Graf, March 2005,)
• "Sugarbush Soul" in Absolute Magnitude, Spring 2005 (DNA Publications)
• "Wait Until the War Is Over" in Gateways (DAW, June 2005,)
• "Sea of Darkness" in The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, Volume 3 (Constable & Robinson, June 2005,)
• "Unnatural History" in Bedlam's Edge (Baen, August 2005,)
• "Fox Fire" in Illuminated Manuscripts (Double Dragon eBooks, August 2005, ebook only)
• "Something Worse Hereafter" in All Hell Breaking Loose (DAW, October 2005,)
• "Touch" in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination #26 (DNA Publications, October 2005)
• "Super Lamb Banana" in Time After Time (DAW, November 2005,)
• "A Change of Heart" with Kate Paulk in Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar (DAW, December 2005,)
• "Go Tell the Spartans" in Millennium 3001 (DAW, February 2006,)
• "Stock Management" in Modern Magic (Fantasist Enterprises, April 2006,)
• "Hot" in Slipstreams (DAW, May 2006,)
• "Titan" in Children of Magic (DAW, June 2006,)
• "Girl With the Golden Lute" in Weird Tales, May/June 2006 (Wildside Press / Terminus)
• "With Unconfined Wings" in Cosmic Cocktails (DAW, December 2006,)
• "The Blood of Dreams" in The Secret History of Vampires (DAW, April 2007,)
• "Where Horse and Hero Fell" in Places to Be, People to Kill (DAW, June 2007,)
• "But World Enough" in Fate Fantastic (DAW, October 2007,)
• "Waiting for Juliette" in The Future We Wish We Had (DAW, December 2007,)
• "Whom the Gods Love" in Transhuman: On the Edge of the Singularity (Baen, February 2008,)
• "Scraps of Fog" in Jim Baen's Universe, April 2008 (Baen)
• "Heart's Fire" in Enchantment Place (DAW, August 2008,)
• "The Price of Gold" in Witch High (DAW, October 2008,)
• "A Grain of Salt" in Better Off Undead (DAW, November 2008,)
• "Heart, Home and Hearth" with Kate Paulk in Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar (DAW, December 2008,)
• "Bit the Hand" in Space Sirens (Flying Pen Press, February 2009,)
• "The Incident of the Inferno Grill" in Witch Way to the Mall (Baen, June 2009,)
• "Created He Them" in Intelligent Design (DAW, September 2009,)
• "The Case of the Driving Poodle" in Strip Mauled (Baen, October 2009,)
• "Matters of the Heart" in Changing the World: All-New Tales of Valdemar (DAW, December 2009,)
• "In the Absence of Light" in Space Horrors (Flying Pen Press, October 2010,)
• "A Matter of Blood" in Fangs for the Mammaries (Baen, October 2010,)
• "Heart's Own" in Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar (DAW, December 2010,)
• "Unawares " in The Wild Side (Baen, August 2011,)
• "An Answer from the North" in Courts of the Fey (DAW, November 2011,)
• "Heart's Place" in Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar (DAW, December 2011,)
• "The Big Ship and the Wise Old Owl" in Going Interstellar (Baen, June 2012,)
• "Angel in Flight" in A Cosmic Christmas (Baen, November 2012,)
• "Dog's Body" in Baen Free Stories 2013 (Baen, March 2013,)
• "Dragons" in In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (Baen, October 2013,)
• "Tarzan and the Martian Invaders" with Kevin J. Anderson in Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Baen, October 2013,)
• "Shepherds and Wolves" in A Cosmic Christmas 2 You (Baen, November 2013,)
• "Around the Bend" in Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera for a New Age (Every Day Publishing, December 2013,)
• "From Out the Fire" in "The Baen Big Book of Monsters" (Baen, October 2014,)
• "And Not to Yield" in Five by Five 3: Target Zone (WordFire Press, November 2014,)
• "Dreamcatcher" in Shared Nightmares (Cold Fusion Media, November 2014,)
• "Rising Above" in Shattered Shields (Baen, November 2014,)
• "So Little and So Light" in As Time Goes By (Baen, February 2015,)
• "Calling the Mom Squad" in Chicks and Balances (Baen, July 2015,)
• "Who Goes Boing?" in Future Wars ... and Other Punchlines (Baen, September 2015,)
• "A Cog in Time" in Onward, Drake! (Baen, October 2015,)
• "On Edge" in Mission: Tomorrow (Baen, November 2015,)
• "Her Sister's Keeper" in Worst Contact (Baen, January 2016,)
• "Do No Harm" in Black Tide Rising (Baen, June 2016,)
• "And Your Little Dog, Too" in Things from Outer Space (Baen, October 2016,)
• "Flight to Egypt" in Forbidden Thoughts (Superversive Press, January 2017,)
• "Tic Toc" in If This Goes Wrong... (Baen, January 2017,)
• "Freeman's Stand" in Rocket's Red Glare (Rough Edges Press, May 2017,)
• "Dry Gulch Dragon" in Straight Outta Tombstone (Baen, July 2017,)
• "Hunter Born" in Monster Hunter Files (Baen, October 2017,)
• "Home Front" with Jeff Greason in Space Pioneers (Baen, November 2018,)
• "Father Avenir and the Fire Demons of Yellowstone" with Kevin J. Anderson in Baen Books: Free Stories 2018 (Baen, 2018)
• "Storming the Tower of Babel" in Voices of the Fall (Baen, March 2019,)
• "Honey Fall" in Noir Fatale (Baen, May 2019,)

Awards and honors

Hoyt has received the following awards and honors:

Year	Organization	Award title, Category	Work	Result	Refs<	-- Use the template below for each row
YEAR	ORGANIZATION	TITLE, CATEGORY	WORK	or	REFERENCES-->
2002	Locus	Locus Award, Best First Novel	Ill Met by Moonlight		^[22]
2002	Mythopoeic Society	Mythopoeic Award, Fantasy Award for Adult Literature	Ill Met by Moonlight		^[23]
2011	Libertarian Futurist Society	Prometheus Award, Best Libertarian SF Novel	Darkship Thieves		^[24] ^[25]
2013	Libertarian Futurist Society	Prometheus Award, Best Libertarian SF Novel	Darkship Renegades		^[26] ^[27]
2014	Libertarian Futurist Society	Prometheus Award, Best Libertarian SF Novel	A Few Good Men		^[28] ^[29]
2018	Libertarian Futurist Society	Prometheus Award, Best Libertarian SF Novel	Darkship Revenge		^[30]
2018	Dragon Con	Dragon Award, Best Alternate History Novel	Uncharted with Kevin J. Anderson		^[31]

External links

• Sarah A. Hoyt's Web Site

Notes and References

1. Web site: accordingtohoyt. 2017-06-20. About Those Lost Puppies. 2021-08-25. Mad Genius Club. en.
2. Web site: Authors : Hoyt, Sarah A : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . 24 July 2019.
3. Web site: Sarah A. Hoyt: Saudade for Portugal and the me I never was. portuguese-american-journal.com. November 10, 2016 . July 23, 2019.
4. Web site: Interview with Sarah Hoyt. amazingstories.com. January 16, 2014 . July 23, 2019.
5. Web site: Accardi . Millicent Borges . Sarah A. Hoyt: Saudade for Portugal and the me I never was – Interview . Portuguese American Journal . 25 July 2019 . en . 10 November 2016.
6. Web site: danielmhoyt. danielmhoyt. Mar 26, 2019.
7. Web site: Sarah A. Hoyt. fantasticfiction.com. July 23, 2019.
8. Web site: Sarah A. Hoyt. July 23, 2019.
9. Web site: Ill Met by Moonlight . July 23, 2019.
10. Web site: Sarah A. Hoyt . July 23, 2019.
11. Web site: Death of a Musketeer . July 23, 2019.
12. Web site: Interview with Sarah Hoyt . amazingstories.com . January 16, 2014 . July 23, 2019.
13. Web site: Libertycon 32 Guests of Honor . July 23, 2019.
14. Web site: Sarah A. Hoyt's Shifter Series. https://web.archive.org/web/20060826082121/http://www.sarahahoyt.com/shifters/ . 2006-08-26 . August 26, 2006 . sarahahoyt.com . March 26, 2019.
15. Web site: Excerpt from Death of a Musketeer. https://web.archive.org/web/20061028013839/http://www.sarahahoyt.com/shifters/doid/excerpt.htm. 2006-10-28. Oct 28, 2006. sarahahoyt.com . March 26, 2019.
16. Web site: 40 Years of the Prometheus Award . April 8, 2019 . Tor Books . July 23, 2019.
17. Web site: Sarah A. Hoyt's Magical British Empire Series. https://web.archive.org/web/20061028013456/http://www.sarahahoyt.com/empire/. 2006-10-28. Oct 28, 2006 . sarahahoyt.com . Mar 26, 2019.
18. Web site: 2018 Recipients -- the Dragon Award . awards.dragoncon.org. July 23, 2019.
19. Web site: Paul Di Filippo reviews Uncharted by Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah A. Hoyt. locusmag.com. July 5, 2018 . July 23, 2019.
20. Web site: Homepage . The Future and You . Mar 26, 2019.
21. Web site: Past Guests . LibertyCon . July 23, 2019.
22. Web site: 2002 Locus Poll Award. 24 July 2019 . . 1 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190401134613/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?28+2002 . live.
23. Web site: 2002 Mythopoeic Award. 24 July 2019 . . 2 October 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171002072406/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?30+2002 . live.
24. Web site: 2011 Prometheus Award. 24 July 2019 . . 2 October 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171002214546/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?33+2011 . live.
25. Web site: The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2011 Prometheus Awards . . 7 February 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130520144124/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Prometheus2011.html . 2013-05-20 .
26. Web site: 2013 Prometheus Award. 24 July 2019 . . 24 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190724180334/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?33+2013 . live.
27. Web site: 2013 Prometheus Winners Announced . . 20 July 2012 . 24 July 2019 . 5 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180105180333/http://www.lfs.org/releases/2013Winners.shtml . live.
28. Web site: 2014 Prometheus Award. 24 July 2019 . . 24 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190724180545/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?33+2014 . live.
29. Web site: 2014 Prometheus Best Novel Winners Announced . . 14 July 2014 . 24 July 2019 . 28 March 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170328023007/http://www.lfs.org/releases/2014Winners.shtml . live.
30. Web site: 2018 Prometheus Award . 24 July 2019 . . 24 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190724183326/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?33+2018 . live.
31. Web site: 2018 Dragon Award . 24 July 2019 . . 5 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180905180501/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?63+2018 . live.