Mark Anthony (writer)

American author

Mark Anthony

Nationality| American

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

## Career[edit]

Anthony wrote a number of novels based on Dungeons & Dragons published worlds, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Ravenloft.[1] 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 Shores 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).[2]

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.[3] Recently[when?] 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 heroine in a novel by Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte?".[4]

## Partial bibliography[edit]

### The Last Rune series[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

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

### Dragonlance novels[edit]

* Kindred Spirits (with Ellen Porath) (1991)

### Ravenloft novels[edit]

* Tower of Doom (1994)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Buker, Derek M. (2002). The science fiction and fantasy readers' advisory: the librarian's guide to cyborgs, aliens, and sorcerers. ALA Editions. pp. 127–128. ISBN 0-8389-0831-4. `{{cite book}}`: `|work=` ignored (help)
2. ^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 283\. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
3. ^ Mark Anthony
4. ^ SFSite

## External links[edit]

* 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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