John Brown (American author)

John D. Brown
120px Author John Brown
Born	John D. Brown 1966 Utah
Occupation	writer
Nationality	USA
Genre	Thrillers, Epic Fantasy
Website
johndbrown.com

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

Early years

Brown was born in Utah and spent many years working in the family 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 Masters degree in Accountancy. After college Brown worked as a business consultant and instructor in Livermore, California and Westerville, Ohio. He current lives in Laketown, Utah, a ranching environment that inspired one of the core ideas in his debut novel.

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.

Brown focused much of his time from 1997 - 2002 establishing his career as a business consultant and instructor. 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 2007 he signed with his agent Caitlin Blasdell and in 2008 he signed a three-book contract with Tor Books for an epic fantasy series which begins with Servant of a Dark God.

While building his writing career Brown continues to work as a senior instructor with a large ERP software company.

Bibliography

Short stories

• "The Scent of Desire" (published under pen name Bo Griffin in )
• "Loose in the Wires" (published in )
• "Bright Waters" (published in )
• "From the Clay of His Heart" (published in )

Awards

• 1997 "The Scent of Desire": Writers of the Future, First Prize, 1997 (as Bo Griffin)

• 2010 Servant of a Dark God: Whitney Awards, Best Speculative Fiction Novel 2009

External links

• John Brown's Official Web Site
• John Brown at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database