Celebrate July 4th with a journey back to Colonial Boston!
The official release date for Thieftaker, book I of D. B. Jackson's Thieftaker Chronicles, has been moved to July 3, 2012! So you can mark our nation's birthday by reading about Colonial Boston's most famous conjurer and thieftaker!
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D.B. Jackson, the new pen name of an established, award-winning author, brings a fresh voice to genre fiction. Specializing in historical fantasy, D.B. is the author of the Thieftaker Chronicles, forthcoming from Tor Books. The first book in this new series, Thieftaker, will be released on July 3, 2012, just in time for the July 4th holiday. It is an urban fantasy set in pre-Revolutionary Boston. The second book in the series, Thieves' Quarry, will be published sometime in 2013.
D.B. is also the author of "The Tavern Fire," a short story that appears in After Hours: Tales from the Ur-Bar, edited by Joshua Palmatier and Patricia Bray. After Hours is published by DAW and includes fifteen tales of fantasy, history, and intrigue. And now you can read "The Tavern Fire" here, on this site!
D.B. has also written "A Memory of Freedom," which is the feature story in the March issue of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.
In the months to come, this web page will be updated regularly, not only with blog entries and information about the coming release of Thieftaker, but also with sample chapters from future books in the series, and original short fiction that will only be available here. So please explore the site, check back often, and, of course, enjoy your visit.
Sneak Peak at the THIEFTAKER T-Shirt!
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Defining Success, Or Not
Loaded title, right? But I’m in one of those moods — contemplative, questioning the meaning of everything, wondering where I fit into the cosmos, etc. Well, maybe not that last, but you get my drift. Thieftaker comes out in forty-eight … Continue reading
Music From My Kids
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D.B. Jackson has been writing fantasy and science fiction under a different name for over 15 years, and has published novels, short stories, and media tie-ins in more than a dozen languages. He also has a Ph.D. in U.S. History. Now, as D.B. Jackson, he is working on something new, combining his love of fantasy with his fascination with American history. Read more about him here.
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