J. V. Jones

Julie Victoria Jones (born 1963) is an American/British fantasy author.

Personal life Julie Victoria Jones Jones was an avid reader from an early age and has cited numerous literary influences, including Charles Dickens,

In her youth, Jones worked as a barmaid in a pub in Liverpool.

Literary career Jones's literary career began with the publication of the fantasy novel The Baker's Boy in 1995.

The Baker's Boy achieved bestseller status and was followed by two sequels, A Man Betrayed (1996) and Master and Fool (1997), both achieving similar levels of success and established Jones as "one of the biggest new names in fantasy". Following the completion of this trilogy, dubbed The Book of Words, Jones wrote a standalone fantasy novel, The Barbed Coil (1997). She has since written the Sword of Shadows series of fantasy novels, set in a different area of the same world as The Book of Words, though considerably grimmer in tone.

In addition to writing fantasy novels, Jones has also written science fiction short stories on various subjects, including the internet and virtual reality, though she has never tried to get any of them published.