CL Fors lives and breathes stories in multiple mediums: the written word, illustration in watercolor, acrylic, digital, and ink, and the creation of custom jewelry and other artifacts of story. She is an artist with a myriad of interests and experiences that inform and flavor her writing and illustrating. A multipotentialite, mother, author, and adventurer, CL is a science and science-fiction enthusiast with a passion for research based sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction in general. She has at various times in her life been a film actor, military intelligence linguist in the Arabic language, a doula, childbirth educator, and student midwife for birthing, as well as a bellydancer.

Having been raised by a science teacher and an artist, CL developed a love for science, art, and the natural world at a young age. She refused to take the conventional route after high school, and moved down to Hollywood to act in films and later joined the army as a military intelligence linguist. She now spends her days raising three sons and a daughter while writing, illustrating, publishing books, silversmithing, and continuing her studies in science, art, and midwifery.  

CL and her husband, Jason P. Crawford, founded the indie publishing house Epitome Press and together hope to bring the work of talented authors out of the brambles and into the light of day. CL is currently working on an MA in Publishing through Kevin J Anderson's Publishing program at Western Colorado University and is a recent winner of Illustrators of the Future.

CL's debut novel, Cradle of Mars, is the first installment of the Primogenitor series. The second installment, Breach of Mars is available on Amazon as are the third and fourth books in the series, Crowning of Mars and Futures of Mars.

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