Julie Victoria Jones (born 1963) is a British fantasy writer.

She was born 1963[1] in Liverpool, England, as the daughter of a pub owner. In her youth she worked as a bartender and for a record label in Liverpool. She lives in San Diego, California, where she initially ran an export business and later occupied a position as marketing director.[2][3] The current publishers of J. V. Jones are Tor books in the US and Orbit Books in the UK.[4]

The manuscript that was to become the first novel in the Book of Words trilogy was submitted as Immortal Longings to Warner Books 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 slush pile.[5] 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

Other books

References

  1. ↑ "J.V. Jones...News!". Jvj.com. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "J. V. Jones - Hachette Book Group". Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Internet Book List :: Author Information: J. V. Jones". www.iblist.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-24. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "J. V. Jones - Authors - Macmillan". Us.macmillan.com. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  5. ↑ J. V. Jones and Betsy Mitchell, The road to a first novel title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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