John Brown (American author)


John D. Brown is an American author who writes thrillers and epic fantasy.
WWW johndbrown.com

Personal life

Brown was born in Utah and spent many years working in his family's floral and nursery business. He served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Netherlands and Belgium and graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a master's degree in Accountancy. After college, Brown began working in the tech industry and continues to work in the ERP software sector as a business consultant and education manager. He currently lives in Laketown, Utah, a ranching environment that inspired one of the core ideas in his debut novel.

Writing career

Brown explored writing as a student at BYU, studying with Darrell Spencer, Leslie Norris, Bruce Jorgensen, and Peter Macuck. After attending a transformational writing workshop offered by Dave Wolverton, he began to submit his stories for publication. In 1996 he won a quarterly first prize in the annual Writers of the Future contest and published his first piece of fiction. His short story "The Scent of Desire" appeared in the contest's 1997 anthology of winners under the pseudonym Bo Griffin.
In 2002 he attended his second pivotal workshop: Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp. After that workshop, Brown began to turn again to writing for publication, this time focusing on novels. In 2008 he signed a three-book contract with Tor Books for an epic fantasy series which begins with Servant of a Dark God.

Thrillers

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Epic Fantasy

Dark God series

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The Drovers series

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Science fiction

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Short stories

  • "The Scent of Desire"
  • "Loose in the Wires"
  • "Bright Waters"
  • "From the Clay of His Heart"

Nonfiction

Awards