Born in November 1983 in Brittany, France, Linda Hamonou spent most of her childhood reading adventure and fantasy books, while exploring the folklore of Brittany. After graduating high school, she entered university to study physics. For the second year, she studied diverse fields of physics in two universities simultaneously. With a growing interest in atomic and molecular physics she entered master course and finished her master degree in France before moving to Northern Ireland where she obtained her PhD in 2009.Saving money during her studies and going to international workshop and conferences allowed her to travel in Europe and North America. Her sense of adventure carried her to the top of Machu Picchu and then to Japan where she started with a postdoc position in Tokyo and is currently pursuing research in Sendai. Being based in Japan allowed her to discover Asia, many trips in Japan, visit of Taiwan and Korea.(The tale of her ongoing adventure can be found on her daily blog:http://www.crazypuce.blogspot.jp)At the end of her PhD in 2009, she discovered NaNoWriMo and being determined to succeed at winning the contest, she wrote the first draft of her first novel "Demon Soul". It took 6 months of hard work to complete the novel to an acceptable level for self publication, including a lot of rewriting, character development, illustration...During that time she also managed to get the draft for her second novel "Attic mirror", participating and winning another writing contest. It took even longer for this highly perfectionist writer to prepare her second novel for self publication. And it took her more than two years to be satisfied with her third "Demon and fairy".Her fourth novel, a detective story called "Harajuku Kiss" has been published in June 2014. She also has some finished and partially written drafts and a lot of ideas to work on...Read more about this authorRead less about this author