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Award winning author Vijaya Schartz did it all. From theater to television, to hosting Authors Secrets Radio, where she interviewed some of the greatest authors. She now writes paranormal, sensuality and suspense in exotic, historical, fantasy, or futuristic settings, and she has five novels published and two more to be released this year.

Her award-winning novel, Ashes for the Elephant God, set in India, is in the process of becoming a feature film. Archangel Crusader will come out in audiobook this year. She is writing a screenplay for a TV pilot based on one of her publisher’s science Fiction series. Although Vijaya is the president of the Arizona Authors Association, the editor in chief of the Arizona Literary Magazine, and a book reviewer for various Magazines, she much prefers to write and entertain her readers. Her current project is a historical fantasy series based on authentic medieval legends.

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