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D.B. Jackson

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in New York, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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D.B. Jackson, author of historical fantasy

D.B. Jackson has been writing fantasy and science fiction under a different pen name for over fifteen years. He has published novels, short stories, and media tie-ins in more than a dozen languages. He also has a Ph.D. in American History, and now, for the first time in his career, he is combining his love of fantasy with his passion for history. His first historical fantasy series, The Thieftaker Chronicles, includes Thieftaker, Thieves' Quarry, A Plunder of Souls (to be released in July 2014), and Dead Man's Reach (due out in 2015). The Thieftaker novels, which combine elements of fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction, are published by Tor Books. He is also at work on a new contemporary urban fantasy series, The Weremyste Cycle (writte ...more

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Monday Musings: Where Does Mentoring Fit In With Today’s Publishing Realities?

I have a very good friend, also a writer, with whom I often discuss the depressing state of the writing world at this point in history. We have a sort of gallows humor about the whole thing — a lot of joking comments about low pay, the dearth of readers, the way New York publishing has basically lost interest in the midlist author, and the generally low quality of self-published works that we enco

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Average rating: 3.87 · 6,547 ratings · 1,119 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Thieftaker (Thieftaker Chronicles, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 2,449 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thieves' Quarry (Thieftaker Chronicles, #2) 3.97 avg rating — 1,011 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Plunder of Souls (Thieftaker Chronicles, #3) 3.99 avg rating — 614 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Man's Reach (Thieftaker Chronicles, #4) by D.B. Jackson (Goodreads Author), Chris McGrath (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time's Children (The Islevale Cycle #1) 3.96 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Spell of Vengeance (Thieftaker Chronicles, #0.5) 3.79 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time's Demon (The Islevale Cycle #2) 4.10 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Price of Doing Business 3.78 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of the Thieftaker 4.30 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witch's Storm: A Thieftaker Novella 4.49 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Islevale Cycle (3 books)
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D.B. Jackson wrote a new blog post Monday Musings: Where Does Mentoring Fit In With Today’s Publishing Realities? I have a very good friend, also a writer, with whom I often discuss the depressing state of the writing world at this point in history. We have a sort Read more of this blog post »
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“Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.”
― D.B. Jackson, Thieftaker

tags: cause, character, nobility, strength

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Which fantasy book would you like the group to read in July 2014?

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

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London Falling by Paul Cornell

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Thieftaker by D.B. Jackson

7 votes 17.5%

Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper

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Kindling Ashes by Laura Harris

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