Doina Roman

Doina Roman, prose writer, born in Ploiesti, Romania.
She has a degree in Business Administration from the Open University Business School, UK .
She worked for her native country’s Defence Ministry and for the international news agency Reuters.
At present, she is a successful businesswoman.
Since 2018, she has been a full member of the Writers’ Union of Romania.
She lives in Bucharest with her husband. The family was larger until not long ago as it included two Yorkshire terrier dogs she adored.
Her first writing, “The Threshold”, a fantasy novel, was published in 2014 by Tracus Arte publishing house. It was followed by: “The Threshold 2 – The Testifying Shadow” and “The Threshold 3 – The Last Oserp Messenger”, both put out by the same publishing house.
In 2017, Paralela 45 publishing house brought out her novel “Too Many Gods for One Desert”.
Doina’s books soon received various awards, including:
• 2015 – RomCon – the Romanian SF&F National Convention – The Best First Novel Prize (for “The Threshold”)
• 2017 – The European Science Fiction Society gave its CHRYISALIS Award to “The Threshold”, volumes 1, 2 and 3, in Dortmund, Germany
• 2017 – The “Colin” Awards for professional writers (the 7th edition, held in Bucharest) granted “The Threshold”, volumes 1, 2 and 3, the Best Book Award (in the “New Weird, Gothic, Horror, Crime” category.
• 2018 – the Romanian SF&F National Convention – The Prize for Best Novel in 2017 for “Too Many Gods for One Desert”