Clayton Emery
{{short description|American author (born 1953)}}
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Clayton Emery (born December 26, 1953, in Bethesda, Maryland){{cite journal | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3482600075.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611052845/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3482600075.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 11, 2014 | title=Emery, Clayton 1953- | journal=Contemporary Authors | date=January 1, 2006 | accessdate=October 19, 2012|via=HighBeam Research}} is an American mystery and fantasy author and a screenwriter.
Works
Clayton Emery has worked as a blacksmith, dishwasher, schoolteacher in Australia, carpenter, zookeeper, farmhand, land surveyor, volunteer firefighter, award-winning and technical writer.{{cite web|url=http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=ClaytonEmery|title=Clayton Emery|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224010201/http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=ClaytonEmery|archivedate=February 24, 2009}}
Clayton Emery wrote the Forgotten Realms novels Sword Play (May 1996), Dangerous Games (November 1996), Mortal Consequences (January 1998), and Star of Cursrah (February 1999), and the stories "Forged in Fire" for the anthology Realms of the Deep (March 2000) and "Night School" for the anthology The Halls of Stormweather (July 2000).{{cite web|url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=4817|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050225005617/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=4817 |title=Clayton Emery |publisher=Pen & Paper |archivedate=2005-02-25 |accessdate=2012-10-19}}
His novels based on Magic: The Gathering include Whispering Woods, Shattered Chains, and Final Sacrifice in 1995, Johan and Jedit in 2001, and Hazezon in 2002.{{cite web |url=http://www.claytonemery.com/FantasyMTG.html |title=Clayton Emery's Magic: The Gathering |accessdate=2008-01-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120904091056/http://www.claytonemery.com/FantasyMTG.html |archivedate=2012-09-04 }}
Emery wrote the "Robin and Marian" medieval stories and "Joseph Fisher" stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Muzzleloader Magazine. He wrote the book Father-Daughter Disaster! in 1997 based on The Secret World of Alex Mack, and also The Tale of the Campfire Vampires for the Are You Afraid of the Dark? book series. His other work includes Tales of Robin Hood.
In the mid-1990s, Emery wrote two Shadow World books, The Burning Goddess{{Cite book|isbn = 044100086X|title = Shadow World: The Burning Goddess|last1 = Hammell|first1 = Ian|year = 1994| publisher=Ace Books }} and City of Assassins,{{Cite book|isbn = 0441002641|title = City of Assassins|last1 = Hammell|first1 = Ian|year = 1995| publisher=Ace Books }} under the pseudonym Ian Hammell.
Clayton Emery wrote the screenplay for the television pilot, "The Republic",{{cn|date=March 2022}} directed by Ken Penders.
Personal life
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External links
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