Julie Victoria Jones (born 1963) is a British author of

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. She was born 1963 in

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, England, as the daughter of a pub owner. In her youth she worked as a bar tender and for a record label in Liverpool. She lives in

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, California, where she initially ran an export business and later occupied a position as marketing director. The current publishers of J. V. Jones are

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in the US and

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in the UK. The manuscript that was to become the first novel in the ''Book of Words''

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was submitted as ''Immortal Longings'' to

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in 1993. In a joint essay, ''The Road to a First Novel'', J. V. Jones and Betsy Mitchell describe the editing process that followed the arrival of the manuscript in the publisher's

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.J. V. Jones and Betsy Mitchell, The novel was published in 1995 as '' The Baker's Boy''. The ''Book of Words'' trilogy was completed in 1997 and followed by a standalone novel, '' The Barbed Coil'', in the same year. Her ''Sword of Shadows'' series was launched in 1999 and is to contain five books.

Bibliography

''The Book of Words''

# ''The Baker's Boy'' (1995) # ''A Man Betrayed'' (1996) # ''Master and Fool'' (1997)

''A Sword of Shadows''

# ''

A Cavern of Black Ice A Cavern of Black Ice is a fantasy novel Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are ...

'' (1999) # ''

A Fortress of Grey Ice ''A Fortress of Grey Ice'' is a fantasy novel by British writer J. V. Jones, the second book in the ''Sword of Shadows'' series. It follows ''A Cavern of Black Ice A Cavern of Black Ice is a fantasy novel Fantasy literature is literatur ...

'' (2002) # ''

A Sword from Red Ice ''A Sword from Red Ice'' is the third book in the ''Sword of Shadows'' fantasy series by J. V. Jones. The first two books in the series are ''A Cavern of Black Ice'' and ''A Fortress of Grey Ice''. It was published in the United States and the ...

'' (2007) # ''

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'' (2010) # ''Endlords'' (forthcoming, tentative title)

Other books

# '' The Barbed Coil'' (1997)

References

External links

The J.V. Jones Website

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