J.V. Jones

Julie Victoria Jones was born in Liverpool, England, in 1963. The daughter of a pub owner, she tended bar from the age of eleven onward. At twenty, she began working for a record label and was part of the Liverpool music scene of the early eighties. She later moved to San Diego, California, where she ran an export business for several years and where she is now the marketing director for an interactive software company. Her interests include music, history, and computer games.

J.V. Jones writes and tells us....

"Okay, I admit it: I'm a technoholic! When I'm not writing fantasy, I'm either surfing the net, zapping pink beasties in Doom II, or tinkering with my plug-ins! My problem, as I see it, is that the chair in front of my computer is the most comfortable seat in the house. It has big fluffy cushions and a footrest. Obviously, if the stools in my kitchen were as comfortable, I'd be cooking up pot roast and canning my own pickles all day.

"Talking of pickles, my other great love in life is food. I lived in Southern California (adopted home of the beansprout) and I yearn for exactly the sort of things that are supposed to kill me! My first book The Baker's Boy, is filled with longing descriptions of red meat, black pudding, fried bread and whole lobsters sailing in butter. Writing epic fantasy gives me plenty of chance to eat vicariously through my characters. My latest work The Cavern of Black Ice (to be published in March 1999) is set in the cold, dark ice fields of the North, and there's much eating of wild moose, muskrat and elk. I haven't tried moose yet, but I can vouch for wild elk. Tastes just like chicken! Now if only I could order moose steaks online...."

 
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SWORD OF SHADOWS
A Cavern of Black Ice
A Fortress of Grey Ice
A Sword from Red Ice

THE BOOK OF WORDS
The Baker's Boy
A Man Betrayed
Master and Fool

STAND ALONE NOVELS
The Barbed Coil

ANTHOLOGIES
The Book of Words