Betsy Cornwell wrote her first novel, TIDES, as a student at Smith College. After graduating from Smith and getting an MFA from Notre Dame, she moved to Ireland to live with the fairies.
Her second novel, MECHANICA, a steampunk retelling of Cinderella, is coming in August 2015.
Betsy is also the story editor for Parabola Magazine, and in her free time she wanders around Ireland looking for rose hips and hazelnuts, and also keeps dairy goats.
Her second novel, MECHANICA, a steampunk retelling of Cinderella, is coming in August 2015.
Betsy is also the story editor for Parabola Magazine, and in her free time she wanders around Ireland looking for rose hips and hazelnuts, and also keeps dairy goats.
Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction
New and upcoming books
Novels
Tides (2013)
The Forest Queen (2018)
The Circus Rose (2020)
Reader, I Murdered Him (2022)
Ring of Salt (2025)
The Forest Queen (2018)
The Circus Rose (2020)
Reader, I Murdered Him (2022)
Ring of Salt (2025)
Betsy Cornwell recommends

Escaping Mr. Rochester (2024)
L L McKinney
"A Gothic gift of a book: eerie and romantic, bloody and blooming."
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