Mark Anthony Biography

American author

Mark Anthony is an American author who lives and writes in Colorado.

Career

Anthony wrote a number of novels based on Dungeons & Dragons published worlds, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Ravenloft. His first such novel was Crypt of the Shadowking in The Harpers series, and he has written several short stories as well.

Anthony was commissioned by TSR to write a novel about Drizzt Do'Urden called The S*s of Dusk by the time Wizards of the Coast had purchased TSR; however, Wizards declined to publish Anthony's completed novel in favor of bringing back R. A. Salvatore to write about Drizzt, starting with The Silent Blade (1998).

Anthony is best known for The Last Rune series, which he developed to explore the idea that reason and wonder need not exist in conflict. Recently he has written a trilogy under the pseudonym Galen Beckett, beginning with a novel The Magicians and Mrs. Quent, whose blurb, similarly to The Last Rune, claims that the book was written to given an answer to the question "what if there was a fantastical cause underlying the social constraints and limited choices confronting a *e in a novel by Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte?".

Partial bibliography

The Last Rune series

  • Beyond the Pale (1998)
  • The Keep of Fire (1999)
  • The Dark Remains (2001)
  • Blood of Mystery (2002)
  • The Gates of Winter (2003)
  • The First Stone (2004)

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent series

  • The Magicians And Mrs. Quent (2008) (as Galen Beckett)
  • The House on Durrow Street (2010) (as Galen Beckett)
  • The Master of Heathcrest Hall (2012) (as Galen Beckett)

Forgotten Realms novels

  • Crypt of the Shadowking (1993)
  • Curse of the Shadowmage (1995)
  • Escape from Undermountain (1996)

Dragonlance novels

  • Kindred Spirits (with Ellen Porath) (1991)

Ravenloft novels

  • Tower of Doom (1994)

References

    External links

    • Mark Anthony's official website
    • Interview at SFFWorld.com
    • Mark Anthony at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
    • Galen Beckett's official website
    • "Mark Anthony::: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on January 3, 2011.
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    • List of Eberron modules and sourcebooks
    • Against the Giants
    • Dead Gods
    • Desert of Desolation
    • Dragonlance
    • Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
    • Expedition to the Demonweb Pits
    • The Gates of Firestorm Peak
    • The Isle of Dread
    • The Keep on the Borderlands
    • The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
    • Queen of the Spiders
    • Ravenloft
    • Red Hand of Doom
    • The Ruins of Undermountain
    • The Temple of Elemental Evil
    • Tomb of Horrors
    • White Plume Mountain
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