Courtney Schafer is a writer of adventure fantasy who has embraced the "hybrid author" model of publishing. After traditionally publishing the first two novels of her Shattered Sigil trilogy (The Whitefire Crossing and The Tainted City) with Night Shade Books, she ran a very successful Kickstarter to fund production of the third and final volume of the series, The Labyrinth of Flame. She looks forward to publishing both traditionally and otherwise in the future. When not writing, she climbs mountains, squeezes through slot canyons, chases after her equally active young son, and works as an engineer in the space industry.