As far back as her college
days, Eressë enjoyed writing stories set in historical times or, better
yet, fantasy settings. Indeed, her pen name Eressë (e-res-se) is taken
from the elvish language J.R.R. Tolkien created for his fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, an absolute favorite of hers since way back when. A
good number of her stories, however, turned into homoerotic romances
because many of the male lead characters wound up having more chemistry
with each other than with the female leads.
Why Eressë wrote
them that way she doesn't know. But in any case, this penchant for M/M
fantasy romance became the wellspring of Ylandre, the world in which her seminal piece Sacred Fate and its sequel Hallowed Bond take place.
Eressë lives in Southeast Asia with her husband of twenty-plus years, three
sons ranging in age from preteen to young adult and one beloved Shih
Tzu. A Journalism graduate, she started her writing career as an
advertising copywriter. She also enjoys cooking and baking and tries her hand at everything from pasta to pastries. But her first love is and
always will be writing stories.
