Simon Rose (author)


Simon Rose is a Canadian author of books for children and young adults, best known for his science fiction and fantasy novels.

Biography

Rose, who was born February 23, 1961 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England), immigrated to Canada in 1990. He currently lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Rose is a teacher of writing workshops. He teaches creative writing classes at Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary.
Writing
Simon Rose's first novel for young readers, The Alchemist's Portrait, published in 2003, was nominated for the Golden Eagle Award. The Sorcerer's Letterbox, published in 2004, was also nominated for the Golden Eagle Award, along with the Silver Birch Award and Diamond Willow Award. His other novels are The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic's Tomb, The Doomsday Mask, The Time Camera, The Sphere of Septimus, Flashback, and Future Imperfect. He is also a contributing author to The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction, Volume One,.
The three-volume series, Shadowzone, Into the Web and Black Dawn was published in 2017.
Rose has also written about 100 non-fiction books for educational publishers such as Weigl and Compass Point Books.
Rose has said that "I write for the boy I was at eight or nine and tend to lean toward subjects that interested me then -- science fiction, time travel, ancient mysteries, the unexplained, fantasy, history and comic books." He is known as a "prolific" author of books of "science fiction, fantasy, ancient mysteries and anything mysterious and unexplained" for children.