Jane Johnson (writer)

Jane Johnson (born 1960) is an English writer of books for adults and children, who has written under various pseudonyms, such as Jude Fisher and Gabriel King.

Biography

Jane Johnson was educated at Liskeard Grammar School.

From 1984 to 1992, she was the editor responsible for the J. R. R. Tolkien list at George Allen & Unwin Publishers, then Unwin Hyman, then HarperCollins, where she is also Publishing Director, Fiction responsible for the Voyager fantasy and science fiction list and for a list of thriller writers. Her authors there include Raymond E. Feist, Robin Hobb, Dean Koontz, Stuart MacBride, Sam Bourne, Tom Knox and George R. R. Martin.

As Jude Fisher she worked with cast and crew to create the Visual Companions to Peter Jackson's movie trilogy of The Lord of the Rings.

In 2005 she travelled to North Africa to investigate a family legend about the abduction of a family in 1625 from a Cornish church by Barbary pirates, and there met the man who was later that year to become her husband, a Berber tribesman. She now splits her time between the UK and a small town in the Anti-Atlas Mountains. Her first adult mainstream novel was The Tenth Gift, based on the Barbary pirate story. This was followed by a desert epic, set in the Sahara among the Tuareg nomads, The Salt Road. Both novels are translated and sold in over 20 countries worldwide. Living part of the year in Morocco, Johnson has made good use of her acquired knowledge of Moroccan culture and history as a background for the novels.

Her magical fantasy novels for children include The Eidolon Chronicles (published in the US as Legends of the Shadow World) and in the UK in their separate volumes: The Secret Country, The Shadow World and Dragon's Fire. Two single volume stories followed: Maskmaker in 2010 and Goldseekers in 2011.

Her website for adult fiction is to be found at [1] For children's fiction the site address is [2]

Bibliography

As Jane Johnson

For children:

• The Secret Country (Eidolon Chronicles 1) 2005
• Shadow World (Eidolon Chronicles 2) 2006
• Dragon's Fire (Eidolon Chronicles 3) 2008
• Maskmaker 2010
• Goldseekers 2011

For adults:

Crossed Bones was published by Viking Penguin (UK) in April 2008 and was later retitled for paperback as The Tenth Gift

• The Tenth Gift: A Novel 2008 (Penguin paperback)
• The Salt Road: A Novel 2010 trade paperback by Viking Penguin in August 2010, paperback April 2011

As Jude Fisher

• Sorcery Rising (Fool's Gold Book 1) 2003
• Wild Magic (Fool's Gold 2) 2004
• Rose of the World (Fool's Gold 3) 2005
• The Fellowship of the Ring: Visual Companion ("The Lord of the Rings" S.) 2001
• The Two Towers: Visual Companion 2002, with introduction by Viggo Mortensen
• The Return of the King: Visual Companion ("Lord of the Rings" S.) 2003
• The Lord of the Rings: Complete Visual Companion 2004

As Gabriel King

• The Wild Road 1998 (with M. John Harrison)
• The Golden Cat 1999 (with M. John Harrison)
• The Knot Garden 2000 (with M. John Harrison)
• Nonesuch 2002 (with M. John Harrison)

External links

• Jane Johnson's official web site
• Jane Johnson's web site for fantasy novels
• Jane Johnson's children's books
• Crossed Bones
• Jane Johnson's Interview with WritersNewsWeekly.com
• Jane Johnson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database