James Maxey is an American author best known for his work in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. He has won the Phobos Award, been nominated for the

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, is a 2015 Piedmont Laureate, and reprinted in the Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. In addition to writing fiction, Maxey has also reviewed novels for the online magazine ''

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'' (IGMS), and appeared on panels and taught workshops at numerous conventions on the east coast. He currently lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina with his wife, Cheryl.

Fiction

Before becoming widely published, Maxey attended several notable writer's workshops, including Odyssey Writing Workshop and Orson Scott Card's Writing Boot Camp. Maxey's short fiction has been published in

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, and numerous anthologies. He has to-date published nine novels, six from

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(three in the Dragon Age trilogy and three in the Dragon Apocalypse trilogy). Rights to The Dragon Age books were sold internationally, with all three books being translated into German and French.

Reception

Cindy Lynn Speer of ''SF Site'' called ''Nobody Gets the Girl'' "very well written." The blog ''Guilded Earlobe'' gave Maxey's audiobook ''Bitterwood'' an A− rating. ''Bull Spec Magazine'' wrote, "James Maxey's Dragon Apocalypse series has been a lot of fun so far — and yet every time I say that I feel remiss in focusing on the fun, and not enough on how creative these books are." The book review website Founding Fields saying, "James Maxey is a freaking genius. I want more." George T. Dodds of ''SF Site'' wrote of Maxey's ''Dragonforge'', "While I was entertained and the plot was compelling and well structured, the story left me feeling underwhelmed in a number of ways." Dodds expounded, "My biggest problem with Dragonforge is that the dragons are basically humans in dragon suits ... a bit more of Cthulhu-like incomprehensibility and alienness to their behaviour would have made them more interesting."

Bibliography

Novels Super-Hero novels Nobody Gets the Girl (2003) Burn Baby, Burn (2012) Covenant (2017) Dragon Age Trilogy Dawn of Dragons (prequel, 2013) Bitterwood (2007) Dragonforge (2008) Dragonseed (2009) Dragon Apocalypse Trilogy Great Shadow (Jan. 2012) Hush (June 2012) Witchbreaker (Dec. 2012) Cinder (2016) Lawless Series Cut-Up Girl: Lawless Book One (2018) Big Ape: Lawless Book Two (2018) Victory: Lawless Book Three (2018) Non-Series Novels Bad Wizard (2015) Anthologies Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology (v. 1) (2002) Absolutely Brilliant in Chrome (2005) Prime Codex (2007)

(2008) Masked (2010) InterGalactic Medicine Show Awards Anthology (2012) Collection There Is No Wheel (2011) The Jagged Gate: Twelve Tangled Tales (2017)

References

Interviews

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