Janni Lee Simner

Although she has been writing all this time, it was not until she moved to Tucson Arizona that she thought she should publish the many stories wanting to be told to the world. Growing up, Lee Simner was one of those children that would get so lost in her novels that she would not hear when her mother called her for dinner or when people talked to her. Up to today, she can still be found walking around her neighborhood with a book in hand just in case she finds a nice spot from where she can read.

The best place to start is the Valdemar Anthologies series, the earliest of Janni Lee Simner's multi-book series: it opens with Valdemar Companion (1990) and runs to 23 books across 1990–2026, ending with A Many-Splintered Thing (2026). Janni Lee Simner's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Janni Lee Simner has 39 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1990 and 2026. 31 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Valdemar Anthologies series with 23 books — and 8 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Janni Lee Simner's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Valdemar Anthologies (1990–2026, 23 books), Phantom Rider (1996, 3 books) and Bones of Faerie (2008–2013, 3 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Janni Lee Simner's 39 books into 4 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Valdemar Anthologies (23 books, 1990–2026); Bones of Faerie (3 books, 2008–2013); Phantom Rider (3 books, 1996); The Writing Life (2 books, 2015–2016).