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Becca Lee Gardner
State: Utah
Becca Lee Gardner is an 8-time Honorable Mention Winner from the Writers of the Future contest. Worldbreaker: An Eldros Legacy Novel won the Utah Author’s League 2024 Recommended Read Award. Becca writes novels, comic books, screenplays, and short stories. Her most recent series, Min the Mighty, began as a bedtime story she told her kids and has become a fan favorite. When she’s not writing, Becca walks for hours and hours, chasing the sunrise. She also plays intense rounds of Marvel Splendor and Star Wars: Battlefront with her three kids. Her favorite evenings are spent watching Korean zombie shows with her husband who jump-scares quite easily.
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Audiences: Adult, Middle Grade
Books by Becca Lee Gardner
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The Dragon Champion
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Middle Grade
Tags: Epic Fantasy
The Dragon Champion series by Becca Lee Gardner is a sweeping middle grade/young adult fantasy saga that follows Min, the smallest dragon in the land of Golshan, as she rises from outcast to hero. Guided by prophecy and bound by courage, Min faces cunning warlocks, treacherous landscapes, and her own deepest fears in a quest to awaken the Elemental Dragons and restore balance to her world. Across seven books, she grows from “Min the Mighty” to “Min the Champion,” proving that even the smallest dragon can change the fate of nations. With themes of bravery, friendship, and resilience, this epic series will inspire readers who love underdog heroes, magical creatures, and richly imagined adventures.
Bleep Blurp Murder
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Middle Grade
Bleep Blurp Murder by Becca Lee Gardner is a laugh-out-loud middle grade sci-fi adventure packed with chaos, creativity, and killer (but tiny) robots. When Griffin Gray’s invention project goes spectacularly wrong, his robot competition entry spawns an army of snack-slinging, mashed-potato-dropping, attitude-filled bots who quickly take over his school. With no adults in sight and only a tennis racket, some trash cans, and a whole lot of questionable ideas, Griffin has to outsmart the machines before they dismantle more than just the science fair. Fast-paced, quirky, and full of mischief, this story is perfect for kids who love STEM gone wild.
Bleep Blurp Murder
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Eldros Legacy
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adult
Tags: Dark Fantasy, Epic Fantasy
Worldbreaker by Becca Lee Gardner is a dark and immersive fantasy that follows Ksara, a Land Mage cursed by the ever-hungry Dark that has haunted her since childhood. As shadows stretch toward her and her powers slip out of control, she races against time to save her dying brother by venturing into Nokte Murosa, a city surrounded by living darkness. There, she must navigate a dangerous bargain with a ruthless leader, evade a fanatical cult, and resist the voices clawing at her sanity. But the Dark is more than a force—it’s alive, and if it consumes her, it could devour the entire continent.
Mindstorm
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adult
Tags: Sci-Fi Fantasy
Mindstorm by Becca Lee Gardner is a tense, high-octane space fantasy where survival depends on more than firepower. Former gun smuggler Lori Kimura is no stranger to danger, but when a mysterious call lures her to a derelict ship drifting in wild space, she encounters a darkness unlike anything she has ever faced. This enemy cannot be fought with bigger guns or sharper aim—it attacks the mind itself, pulling her into a storm of shadows and secrets that could unravel her sanity and consume far more than just her ship.
Mindstorm
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Hybrid World
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Middle Grade
The Forest Glows by Becca Lee Gardner is a vivid tale of resilience, family, and survival set deep in the Amazon. Milo wants nothing more than for his parents to return and for life to go back to the way it was—but when a mysterious Sky Ship crashes near his jungle home, the world around him begins to shift in strange and dangerous ways. Determined to find his lost brother and protect what remains of his family, Milo must face both the evolving threats of the rainforest and the unknown dangers brought by the ships.
The Forest Glows
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The Valkyries Initiative
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adult
Tags: Anthology
The Valkyries Initiative by Becca Lee Gardner and contributing authors drops readers into Hit World, a brutal and darkly comic universe where everything—assassination, monster hunting, even interdimensional warfare—is legal if the paperwork’s in order. When LifeEnders, Inc. faces a rival organization bent on tearing it apart, the solution isn’t more hired guns but something new: the Valkyries. This anthology introduces fifteen fierce, cunning, and deadly women whose unique skills blur the line between saviors and destroyers. Packed with murder, magic, and mayhem, this explosive collection proves the most dangerous weapon in Hit World just might be a Valkyrie.
The Valkyries Initiative
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Of Wizards and Wolves
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adult
Tags: Anthology
Of Wizards and Wolves by Becca Lee Gardner and contributing authors is a moving memorial anthology honoring fantasy master David Farland, celebrating the transformative power of storytelling through the archetypes of wizards and wolves. Across eighteen tales, readers encounter magic and moonlight in equal measure: from classic transformations of man to beast, to wizards passing on their legacies, to playful twists on familiar fairy tales and even unexpected journeys involving pinball machines or hockey games. Blending fantasy, horror, science fiction, and humor, this collection explores what it means to be changed—by magic, by fate, or by the stories we share. Proceeds support the scholarship fund of the Superstars Writing Seminars, carrying forward Farland’s legacy of mentorship and inspiration.