About the Author

Mishell Baker is the author of the Nebula and World Fantasy Award Finalist Borderline, which was also a Tiptree Honor book, as well as the second and third books in The Arcadia Project, Phantom Pains and Impostor Syndrome. She is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, and her short stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Redstone Science Fiction, and Electric Velocipede. She has a website at MishellBaker.com and frequently Tweets about writing, parenthood, mental health, and assorted geekery at @MishellBaker. When she's not attending conventions or going on wild research adventures, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.

Reviews

* " This follow-up to Borderline keeps the emotional punches from Baker's resilient protagonist coming."-- "Library Journal, on PHANTOM PAINS"

* "Everything readers think they know about both worlds will be upended by this enthralling installment."-- "Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW, on PHANTOM PAINS"

* "Nebula-nominee Baker delivers an emotional knockout punch in the wrenching third Arcadia Project novel...Baker's richly detailed worldbuilding intersects with powerful storytelling to keep readers hooked. The tear-jerking conclusion is a fitting wrap-up to the series, but readers will still hope for more Millie stories to come."-- "Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW"

"Borderline [is] a strange, fast-paced, and surprisingly dark tale about magic, madness and mystique...Despite the engaging plot, Millie's character, and the complexities in the characters around her made the book a real page-turner for me...Immensely riveting, with unexpected influxes of depth."-- "MuggleNet.com, on BORDERLINE"

"Baker's consistent, caring integration of the realities of disability into the narrative, makes Borderline one of the most purely respectful portrayals of people with disabilities that I've ever had the pleasure of reading, and that in turn makes it an excellent launch to a very promising urban fantasy series."-- "Publishers Weekly STAFF PICK, on BORDERLINE"

"Baker's prose is a liquid line with light in it, that you can't tell is gasoline until she touches it with a match.... Phantom Pains succeeds in being both seamlessly connected to Borderline and utterly its own ambitious project. I was constantly aware of being impressed with it while being absorbed by it - and I ended up loving it more than Borderline, which is saying something."-- "Lightspeed Magazine, on PHANTOM PAINS"

"Mishell Baker's new Arcadia Project series is off to a thrilling and glamorous start with Borderline...Baker has given her audience urban fantasy at its finest--visceral and real in its sense of space, and dancing on the uncanny edges of our vision...Borderline is dark and creeping and smart as a whip."-- "Tor.com, on BORDERLINE"

"Mixing humor with serious action, the final volume of B­aker's trilogy (Borderline; Phantom Pains) wraps up a layered story line with a satisfying imperfect ending."-- "Library Journal"

"Borderline is worldbuilding at its most original...I loved this book."--Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of DEAD UNTIL DARK, on BORDERLINE