J. V. Jones
British fantasy writer
Julie Victoria Jones (born 1963) is an American/British fantasy author.
Personal life
Julie Victoria Jones was born in Liverpool in 1963. Jones was an avid reader from an early age and has cited numerous literary influences, including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Jack London, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
In her youth, Jones worked as a barmaid in a pub in Liverpool. At age 20 she began to work for a local record label. She later moved to San Diego, California, where she ran an export business for several years and then served as a computer consultant, software developer, and marketing director for an interactive software company. In her announcement of the completion of Endlords, she wrote that during the years it took to complete she worked "jobs that included dog sitting, selling women's clothes on eBay and freelancing writing".
Literary career
Jones's literary career began with the publication of the fantasy novel The Baker's Boy in 1995. The manuscript that was to become The Baker's Boy was initially submitted as Immortal Longings to Warner Books in 1993. In a joint essay, The Road to a First Novel, Jones and editor Betsy Mitchell described the editing process that followed the arrival of the manuscript in the publisher's slush pile.
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