Deborah Jay writes epic fantasy and urban fantasy featuring complex, quirky characters and multi-layered plots – just what she likes to read.
Fortunate to live near Loch Ness in the majestic, mystery-filled, Scottish Highlands, with her partner and a pack of rescue dogs, she can often be found lurking in secluded glens and forests, researching locations for her books.
She has a dream day job riding, training, and judging, competition dressage horses and riders, and also writes books and magazine features on the subject under her professional name of Debby Lush.
Having studied at Nottingham University, in 2017 she won the Alumni Short Story competition with her ghost tale, THE LIBRARIAN.
A lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy, she started writing her first novel aged eight, and has never stopped. Her first published novel. epic fantasy, THE PRINCE’S MAN, first in the Five Kingdoms series, won a UK Arts Council award, and debuted as an Amazon Hot 100 New Release.
#2, THE PRINCE’S SON, #3, THE PRINCE’S PROTÉGÉ, and the concluding book in the quartet, #4 THE PRINCE’S HEIR, are all available individually, or in the boxset THE PRINCE’S LEGACY.
Her first urban fantasy, DESPRITE MEASURES, about a Scottish water sprite, is the opening novel of the CALEDONIAN SPRITE SERIES. The companion short story, SPRITE NIGHT is available FREE on most ebook retailers.
