Howard Andrew Jones

Howard Andrew Jones is an American speculative fiction and fantasy author and editor, known for ''The Chronicles of Sword and Sand'' series and ''The Ring-Sworn'' trilogy. He has also written ''Pathfinder Tales'', tie-in fiction novels in the world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, published by Paizo. He is the editor of ''Tales from the Magician's Skull'' and has served as a Managing Editor at '' Black Gate'' since 2004. He assembled and edited a series of eight volumes of the short fiction of Harold Lamb for publication by Bison Books.

Biography

Jones was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America. He has worked in the television industry as a cameraman and production assistant, as an editor of technical books, and as an English professor at the University of Southern Indiana. He lives on a small family farm in Indiana.

Career

Jones first encountered the work of Harold Lamb in high school and became a lifelong fan, which led, years later, to him collecting much of Lamb's short fiction work into an eight volume series for Bison Books. In an interview with Black Gate, he recounts how many of the stories, which had been published in pulp magazines, were gathered and bound for personal use by another fan, Dr. John Drury Clark, whose widow sold the collection to Jones. This collection included much of the works included in the collected volumes he later assembled and edited.

Jones' debut historical fantasy novel ''The Desert of Souls'', the first in ''The Chronicles of Sword and Sand'' series, also known as the ''Dabir & Asim'' stories after the two principle characters, was published in 2011 to critical acclaim and was included on ''Locus Magazine'' 2011 Recommended Reading List for Best First Novel. He has written numerous short fiction pieces set in the same world, many of which were collected in ''The Waters of Eternity''. The sequel novel, ''The Bones of the Old Ones'', received a starred review from ''Publishers Weekly''. On the author's website, he states that the story "The Sword and the Djinn" is an excerpt from an unfinished third novel in the series entitled ''The Maiden's Eye''.

Jones has written four novels and several short fiction pieces set in Golarion, the world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The cover art by Tyler Jacobson for Best Cover Illustration - Paperback Book.

His second independent series, the epic fantasy ''Ring-Sworn'' trilogy, debuted in 2018 with the novel ''For the Killing of Kings'' and received critical acclaim, including a starred review from ''Publishers Weekly''. The concluding volume of the trilogy, ''When the Goddess Wakes'' also received a starred review from ''Publishers Weekly''.

In 2021, Jones was nominated for The Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards - The Venarium Award for Emerging Scholar.

In 2022, Jones signed a five book deal with Baen Books to publish his ''Chronicles of Hanuvar'' series.

Bibliography

Novels

''The Chronicles of Sword and Sand''

* ''The Desert of Souls'' (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
* ''The Bones of the Old Ones'' (St. Martin's Press, 2012)

''Ring-Sworn'' trilogy

* ''For the Killing of Kings'' (St. Martin's Press, 2018)
* ''Upon the Flight of the Queen'' (St. Martin's Press, 2019)
* ''When the Goddess Wakes'' (St. Martin's Press, 2021)

''The Chronicles of Hanuvar''

* ''Lord of a Shattered Land'' (Baen Books, 2023)

Tie-In novels

''Pathfinder Tales''

* ''Plague of Shadows'' (Paizo Publishing, 2011)
* ''Stalking the Beast'' (Paizo Publishing, 2013)
* ''Beyond the Pool of Stars'' (Paizo Publishing, 2015)
* ''Through the Gate in the Sea'' (Paizo Publishing, 2017)

Short fiction

''The Chronicles of Sword and Sand'' stories

* ''The Waters of Eternity'' (St. Martin's Press, 2011) - short fiction collection, including:
** "In Bygone Days"
** "The Thief of Hearts", first published in ''Sages & Swords: Heroic Fantasy Anthology'', Pitch-Black Books, 2006
** "The Slayer's Tread"
** "Sight of Vengeance", first published in '' Black Gate'', 2007
** "Servant of Iblis", first published in ''Paradox'' #5, 2004
** "The Waters of Eternity"
** "Marked Man"
* "The Serpent's Heart", first published in ''Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters'', Ragnarok Publications, 2014
* "The Black Lion", first published in ''Skelos'' #2, Skelos Press, 2017
* "The Sword and the Djinn", first published in ''Guilds & Glaives'' Zombies Need Brains, 2018 - excerpt from an unfinished novel ''The Maiden's Eye''
* "Instrument of Vengeance", first published in ''Heroic Fiction Quarterly'', issue 45, 2020
* "The Dragon Planet", first published in ''Of Gods and Globes II: A Cosmic Anthology'', 2020
* "The Palace in the Moonlight", first published in ''Lightspeed Magazine'', issue 132, 2021

''Hanuvar'' series

* "The Way of Serpents", first published in ''Goodman Games Gen Con 2016 Program Guide'', 2016
* "A Stone's Throw", first published in ''Glyph'' #2, Undaunted Press, 2000
* "Crypt of Stars", first published in ''Tales from the Magician's Skull'', No. 1, Goodman Games, 2017
* "The Second Death of Hanuvar", first published in ''Tales from the Magician's Skull'', No. 3, Goodman Games, 2019
* "Course of Blood", first published in ''Galactic Stew'', Zombies Need Brains, 2020
* "From the Darkness Beneath". first published in ''Terra Incognita: Lost Worlds of Fantasy and Adventure'', DMR Books, 2022
* "Shroud of Feathers", first published in ''Tales from the Magician's Skull'', No. 6, Goodman Games, 2022

Other stories

* "The Sibylline Books", first published in ''Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'', issue #9, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-op, 2003
* "Line of Blood", first published in ''Lords of Swords: Thirteen Stories of Heroic Fantasy", Pitch-Black Books, 2004''
* "The Ghost Pearl", first published in ''Ghost in the Cogs'', Broken Eye Books, 2015
* "Crypt of Stars", first published in ''Savage Scrolls'', vol. 1, Pulp Hero Press, 2020

Editor

* '' Black Gate'' magazine (2004–present)
* ''Tales from the Magician's Skull'' magazine, published by Goodman Games
* ''Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One'' by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2006
* ''Warriors of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume Two'' by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2006
* ''Riders of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume Three'' by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2007
* ''Swords of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume Four'' by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2007
* ''Swords from the Desert'' by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2009
* ''Swords from the West'' by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2009
* ''Swords from the East'' by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2010
* ''Swords from the Sea'' by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2010

See also

* List of fantasy authors

References

External links

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Interviews

"An Interview with Howard Andrew Jones"
Steven H. Silver, SF Site, 2011

"''Black Gate'' Interviews Howard Andrew Jones, Part One"
Bill Ward, '' Black Gate'', 2011

"''Black Gate'' Interviews Howard Andrew Jones, Part Two"
Bill Ward, '' Black Gate'', 2011

"''Black Gate'' Interviews Howard Andrew Jones, Part Three"
Bill Ward, '' Black Gate'', 2011

"Author Q&A with Howard Andrew Jones"
James Sutter, Paizo Blog, 2013

"The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 209): Interview with Author Howard Andrew Jones"
Patrick Hester, SF Signal Podcast, 2013

"The Magic of For the Killing of Kings: An Interview with Howard Andrew Jones"
Ilana C Myer, B&N Reads, 2019

"Author Spotlight: Howard Andrew Jones"
Jude Griffin, ''Lightspeed Magazine'', issue 132, 2021

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