Howard Andrew Jones

Jones was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, July 19, 1968.{{Cite news |title=Howard Andrew Jones will sign copies of 'The Desert of Souls' at 7 p.m. Feb. 22 at Barnes & Noble |url=http://www.courierpress.com/columnists/howard-andrew-jones-will-sign-copies-of-the-desert-of-souls-at-7-pm-feb-22-at-barnes--noble-ep-44575-324744151.html |last=Mcbain |first=Roger |website=courierpress.com |publisher=Evansville Courier & Press |access-date=July 8, 2022 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Interview with Howard Andrew Jones |url=https://civilianreader.com/2019/02/22/interview-with-howard-andrew-jones/ |website=Civilian Reader |access-date=January 17, 2025 |date=February 22, 2019}} He worked in the television industry as a cameraman and production assistant, as an editor of technical books, and as an English professor at the University of Southern Indiana. He lived on a small family farm in Indiana.{{cite web |title=The Desert of Souls: Fresh, fun, riveting debut |url=https://fantasyliterature.com/fantasy-author/joneshowardandrew/ |last=Thompson |first=Robert |website=Fantasy Literature fantasyliterature.com |date=February 9, 2011 |access-date=July 7, 2022}}

Jones was diagnosed with brain cancer in September 2024, and died on January 16, 2025, at the age of 56.{{cite news |title=Howard Andrew Jones Obituary |url=https://locusmag.com/2025/01/howard-andrew-jones-obituary/ |access-date=January 17, 2025 |publisher=Locus Magazine |date=January 17, 2025}}

Jones first encountered the work of Harold Lamb in high school and became a lifelong fan, which led, years later, to him collecting much of Lamb's short fiction work into an eight volume series for Bison Books. In an interview with Black Gate, he recounts how many of the stories, which had been published in pulp magazines, were gathered and bound for personal use by another fan, Dr. John Drury Clark, whose widow sold the collection to Jones. This collection included much of the works included in the collected volumes he later assembled and edited.

Jones' debut historical fantasy novel The Desert of Souls, the first in The Chronicles of Sword and Sand series, also known as the Dabir & Asim stories after the two principal characters, was published in 2011 to critical acclaim and was included on Locus Magazine{{'s}} 2011 Recommended Reading List for Best First Novel.{{Cite web |title=The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312646745 |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=publishersweekly.com}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/howard-andrew-jones/desert-souls/ |title=The Desert Of Souls |work=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}{{cite web |date=February 1, 2012 |title=2011 Recommended Reading List |url=https://locusmag.com/2012/02/2011-recommended-reading-list/ |access-date=July 6, 2022 |work=Locus Magazine}} He has written numerous short fiction pieces set in the same world, many of which were collected in The Waters of Eternity. The sequel novel, The Bones of the Old Ones, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/howard-andrew-jones/bones-of-old-ones/ |title=THE BONES OF THE OLD ONES {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The Bones of the Old Ones by Howard Andrew Jones |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312646752 |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=publishersweekly.com}} On the author's website, he states that the story "The Sword and the Djinn" is an excerpt from an unfinished third novel in the series entitled The Maiden's Eye.{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Howard Andrew |title=Dabir & Asim |url=http://www.howardandrewjones.com/dabir-asim |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=howardandrewjones.com}}

Jones has written four novels and several short fiction pieces set in Golarion, the world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The cover art by Tyler Jacobson for his Pathfinder Tales novel Beyond the Pool of Stars won the 2016 Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration - Paperback Book.{{Cite web |last=locusmag |date=August 19, 2016 |title=2016 Chesley Awards Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2016/08/2016-chesley-awards-winners/ |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}

His second independent series, the epic fantasy Ring-Sworn trilogy, debuted in 2018 with the novel For the Killing of Kings and received critical acclaim, including a starred review from Publishers Weekly.{{Cite web |date=June 7, 2019 |title=Rich Horton Reviews For the Killing of Kings by Howard Andrew Jones |url=https://locusmag.com/2019/06/rich-horton-reviews-for-the-killing-of-kings-by-howard-andrew-jones/ |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=For the Killing of Kings by Howard Andrew Jones |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250006813 |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=publishersweekly.com}} The concluding volume of the trilogy, When the Goddess Wakes also received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.{{Cite web |title=When the Goddess Wakes by Howard Andrew Jones |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250148827 |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=publishersweekly.com}}

In 2021, Jones was nominated for The Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards - The Venarium Award for Emerging Scholar.{{Cite web |last=locusmag |date=June 29, 2021 |title=2020 and 2021 REH Foundation Awards Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2021/06/2020-and-2021-reh-foundation-awards-winners/ |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}

In 2022, Jones signed a five book deal with Baen Books to publish his Chronicles of Hanuvar series.{{cite web |date=August 17, 2022 |title=Baen Books Signs Howard Andrew Jones to Five-Book Deal |url=https://www.baen.com/howard-andrew-jones-deal |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=Baen |language=en-US}} The first book in the series, Lord of a Shattered Land, is scheduled for release in August 2023, with the second book, The City of Marble and Blood, to follow in October 2023.

• The Desert of Souls (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
• The Bones of the Old Ones (St. Martin's Press, 2012)

• For the Killing of Kings (St. Martin's Press, 2018)
• Upon the Flight of the Queen (St. Martin's Press, 2019)
• When the Goddess Wakes (St. Martin's Press, 2021)

• Lord of a Shattered Land (Baen Books, 2023)
• The City of Marble and Blood (Baen Books, 2023)
• Shadow of the Smoking Mountain (Baen Books, 2024)

• Plague of Shadows (Paizo Publishing, 2011)
• Stalking the Beast (Paizo Publishing, 2013)
• Beyond the Pool of Stars (Paizo Publishing, 2015)
• Through the Gate in the Sea (Paizo Publishing, 2017)

• The Waters of Eternity (St. Martin's Press, 2011) - short fiction collection, including:
• "In Bygone Days"
• "The Thief of Hearts", first published in Sages & Swords: Heroic Fantasy Anthology, Pitch-Black Books, 2006
• "The Slayer's Tread"
• "Sight of Vengeance", first published in Black Gate, 2007
• "Servant of Iblis", first published in Paradox #5, 2004
• "The Waters of Eternity"
• "Marked Man"
• "The Serpent's Heart", first published in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters, Ragnarok Publications, 2014
• "The Black Lion", first published in Skelos #2, Skelos Press, 2017
• "The Sword and the Djinn", first published in Guilds & Glaives, Zombies Need Brains, 2018 - excerpt from an unfinished novel The Maiden's Eye
• "Instrument of Vengeance", first published in Heroic Fiction Quarterly, issue 45, 2020
• "The Dragon Planet", first published in Of Gods and Globes II: A Cosmic Anthology, 2020
• "The Palace in the Moonlight", first published in Lightspeed Magazine, issue 132, 2021
• "The Flame and the Bottle", first published in Heroic Fiction Quarterly, issue 54, 2022

• "The Way of Serpents", first published in Goodman Games Gen Con 2016 Program Guide, 2016
• "A Stone's Throw", first published in Glyph #2, Undaunted Press, 2000
• "Crypt of Stars", first published in Tales from the Magician's Skull, No. 1, Goodman Games, 2017
• "The Second Death of Hanuvar", first published in Tales from the Magician's Skull, No. 3, Goodman Games, 2019
• "Course of Blood", first published in Galactic Stew, Zombies Need Brains, 2020
• "From the Darkness Beneath". first published in Terra Incognita: Lost Worlds of Fantasy and Adventure, DMR Books, 2022
• "Shroud of Feathers", first published in Tales from the Magician's Skull, No. 6, Goodman Games, 2022
• "The Warrior’s Way", first published in Weird Tales #366 - Swords And Sorcery, Weird Tales, 2023

• "The Sibylline Books", first published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, issue #9, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-op, 2003
• "Line of Blood", first published in Lords of Swords: Thirteen Stories of Heroic Fantasy, Pitch-Black Books, 2004
• "The Ghost Pearl", first published in Ghost in the Cogs, Broken Eye Books, 2015
• "Crypt of Stars", first published in Savage Scrolls, vol. 1, Pulp Hero Press, 2020
• "Whispers of the Serpent", first published in Scott Oden Presents The Lost Empire of Sol: A Shared World Anthology of Sword & Planet Tales, Rogue Blades Entertainment, 2021

• Black Gate magazine (2004–present)
• Tales from the Magician's Skull magazine, published by Goodman Gameshttps://www.blackgate.com/2017/10/11/support-an-exciting-new-magazine-of-sword-sorcery-tales-from-the-magicians-skull/
• Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2006
• Warriors of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume Two by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2006
• Riders of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume Three by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2007
• Swords of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume Four by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2007
• Swords from the Desert by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2009
• Swords from the West by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2009
• Swords from the East by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2010
• Swords from the Sea by Harold Lamb, Bison Books, 2010

• List of fantasy authors

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• [https://www.sfsite.com/05b/haj344.htm "An Interview with Howard Andrew Jones"], Steven H. Silver, SF Site, 2011
• [https://www.blackgate.com/2011/02/16/black-gate-interviews-howard-andrew-jones-part-one/ "Black Gate Interviews Howard Andrew Jones, Part One"], Bill Ward, Black Gate, 2011
• [https://www.blackgate.com/2011/02/23/black-gate-interviews-howard-andrew-jones-part-two/ "Black Gate Interviews Howard Andrew Jones, Part Two"], Bill Ward, Black Gate, 2011
• [https://www.blackgate.com/2011/02/23/black-gate-interviews-howard-andrew-jones-part-three/ "Black Gate Interviews Howard Andrew Jones, Part Three"], Bill Ward, Black Gate, 2011
• [https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lff9?Author-QA-with-Howard-Andrew-Jones "Author Q&A with Howard Andrew Jones"], James Sutter, Paizo Blog, 2013
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20221017173113/https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/10/the-sf-signal-podcast-episode-209-interview-with-author-howard-andrew-jones/ "The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 209): Interview with Author Howard Andrew Jones"], Patrick Hester, SF Signal Podcast, 2013
• [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/the-magic-of-for-the-killing-of-kings-an-interview-with-howard-andrew-jones/ "The Magic of For the Killing of Kings: An Interview with Howard Andrew Jones"], Ilana C Myer, B&N Reads, 2019
• [https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-howard-andrew-jones/ "Author Spotlight: Howard Andrew Jones"], Jude Griffin, Lightspeed Magazine, issue 132, 2021

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