Daphne Lynn Stewart is a pen name used by fantasy/suspense author Deborah Cannon for her novelettes, a series of Christmas romances for pet lovers and her Summer Destiny series. In 2013 she won an honourable mention for her short story "Twilight Glyph" in the Canadian Tales of the Fantastic contest and in 2014 her story "Tang’s Christmas Miracle" appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas in Canada. Her career as a science fiction/fantasy writer began when she sold two short stories to Farsector SFFH magazine (2003). She has contributed to the Canadian Writer’s Guide and is best known for The Raven Chronicles, a series of paranormal archaeological suspense novels and a time slip series for young adults, The Pirate Vortex. Recently she launched a fiction series of Kindle Short Reads called Close Encounters of the Cryptid Kind. Her most recent release under the name of Deborah Cannon is a critically acclaimed epic The Pirate Empress, a Chinese historical fantasy. She is also a book reviewer for the Washington Independent Review of Books. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her archaeologist husband.