Occupation writer Role Author Name James Maxey | Period 2001 - present Nationality American | |
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Books Bitterwood, Nobody Gets the, Dragonforge, Greatshadow, Witchbreaker | ||
Nominations WSFA Small Press Award | ||
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James Maxey is an American author best known for his work in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. He has won the Phobos Award, been nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award, and reprinted in the Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. In addition to writing fiction, Maxey has also reviewed novels for the online magazine InterGalactic Medicine Show (IGMS), and appeared on panels and taught workshops at numerous conventions on the east coast. He currently lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina with his wife, Cheryl.
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Fiction
Before becoming widely published, Maxey attended several notable writer's workshops, including Odyssey Writing Workshop and Orson Scott Card's Writing Boot Camp. Maxey's short fiction has been published in Asimov's Science Fiction, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and numerous anthologies. He has to-date published nine novels, six from Solaris Books (three in the Dragon Age trilogy and three in the Dragon Apocalypse trilogy). Rights to The Dragon Age books were sold internationally, with all three books being translated into German and French.
Reception
Cindy Lynn Speer of SF Site called Nobody Gets the Girl "very well written." The blog Guilded Earlobe gave Maxey's audiobook Bitterwood an A- rating. Bull Spec Magazine wrote, "James Maxey's Dragon Apocalypse series has been a lot of fun so far — and yet every time I say that I feel remiss in focusing on the fun, and not enough on how creative these books are." The book review website Founding Fields saying, "James Maxey is a freaking genius. I want more." George T. Dodds of SF Site wrote of Maxey's Dragonforge, "While I was entertained and the plot was compelling and well structured, the story left me feeling underwhelmed in a number of ways." Dodds expounded, "My biggest problem with Dragonforge is that the dragons are basically humans in dragon suits ... a bit more of Cthulhu-like incomprehensibility and alienness to their behaviour would have made them more interesting."