Surprise! There’s two of them!

Frances Hunter is actually two sisters, Mary Clare and Elizabeth Clare, who have put our lifelong love of storytelling to work writing historical fiction. We live in Austin, Texas, with our bunny Flower, who contributes by getting hay and bunny fur on all our research materials.

For To the Ends of the Earth, our first novel, we conducted extensive historical research and traveled the entire route of the journey described in the book, as well as the Lewis and Clark Trail from Montana to the Pacific Coast. The novel was the winner of the 2007 Violet Crown Award for Fiction, a silver medalist in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and a finalist for Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year, as well as earning rave reviews and a coveted “highly recommended” rating from Library Journal.

We are presently working on The Fairest Portion of the Globe, the prequel to To the Ends of the Earth, and researching Bloody Island, a historical novel about Robert E. Lee.

Liz says: I’ve worked as a technical and business writer since 1988. Currently, I write and design historical exhibits for the Texas State Library and Archives. In my spare time, I love to read, listen to Celtic and early American music, follow University of Texas sports, and just kick back.