D. B. Jackson, who also writes as David B. Coe, is the award-winning author of more than a dozen novels and the occasional short story. His most recent novels, Thieftaker and Thieves' Quarry, written under the D.B. Jackson pen name (http://www.DBJackson-Author.com), are the first volumes of the Thieftaker Chronicles, a series set in pre-Revolutionary Boston that combines elements of urban fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction. He is currently at work on the third volume, City of Shades.

Writing as David B. Coe (http://www.DavidBCoe.com) he has published the LonTobyn Chronicle, a trilogy that received the Crawford Fantasy Award as the best work by a new author in fantasy, as well as the critically acclaimed Winds of the Forelands quintet and Blood of the Southlands trilogy. He has also written the novelization of director Ridley Scott’s movie, Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe. David’s books have been translated into a dozen languages.

D.B./David received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and then attended Stanford University, where he received both a Master’s and a Ph.D. in U.S. history. He briefly taught history at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and has given guest lectures in the University’s environmental studies program. In 2006, David was a guest speaker at the Magic Casements Speculative Fiction Festival in Sydney, Australia. He has twice been a guest speaker at the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference, and on three occasions has been on the faculty at the South Carolina Writers’ Workshop Conference. In 2010, as guest of honor at the ConVersion science fiction convention in Calgary, Alberta, David ran the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association Writer’s Workshop.

He co-founded and regularly contributes to the Magical Words group blog (http://magicalwords.net), a site devoted to discussions of the craft and business of writing fantasy. He is co-author of How To Write Magical Words: A Writer’s Companion.