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James Lowder
| Full Name: |
James
Daniel
Lowder |
| Born: |
January 2, 1963
Quincy, Massachusetts, USA |
| Occupation: |
Writer, Editor |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
James Daniel Lowder is an American author and editor, working frequently within the fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror genres, and on critical works exploring popular culture. Lowder graduated from Marquette University with an honors BA in English and History, and he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1999, with a Masters in Literary Studies.
Lowder's earliest novels were part of the Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft shared universe book lines, but beginning in the late 1990s he turned his attention more often to creator-owned projects. He has published several novels, and his short fiction has appeared in such anthologies such as Shadows Over Baker Street, Truth Until Paradox, and Historical Hauntings. Some of his short stories have been cited in the honorable mention list of the annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. He was an Origins Award finalist in the Best Short Fiction category for his 2003 novella, "The Night Chicago Died", a story that featured the debut of his mystery man character, The Corpse. His novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
As an editor, Lowder directed several best-selling book lines for TSR, Inc. in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, and Dark Sun. In 1999, Peter Corless brought Lowder in to oversee the Pendragon fiction line for Green Knight Publishing; Lowder continued to reprint older Arthurian works and also produced original short story collections and an original novel based on Arthurian Legend. He has also served as a consulting editor for CDS Books on their City of Heroes novels.
Lowder has edited more than a dozen anthologies, with subjects ranging from King Arthur to superheroes to zombies. He has won several Origins Awards and an ENnie Award, and been shortlisted for an International Horror Guild Award for these projects. Lowder also works in comic books, and has penned scripts for several companies, including Image, DC, Devil's Due, and Desperado. His short work "Lost Loves", from the Moonstone Monsters: Demons anthology, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award in 2004 for Best Illustrated Narrative.
Lowder's critical essays and film and book reviews have appeared in such publications as Amazing Stories and Polyhedron, the latter of which featured his long-running video review column "Into the Dark" from 1991 to 1994.
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