A. J. Dalton
Adam James Dalton (born September 1970) is a British fantasy writer and teacher of English. He is the author of the best-selling "Chronicles of a Cosmic Warlord" ("Empire of the Saviours", "Gateway of the Saviours" and "Tithe of the Saviours"), the "Flesh & Bone Series" ("Necromancer's Gambit", "Necromancer's Betrayal" and "Necromancer's Fall"), and three collections with Grimbold Books ("The Book of Orm, The Book of Angels and The Book of Dragons"). He has also published a range of academic articles on science fiction and fantasy. Biography. Adam Dalton was born in Croydon, England on  a dark and stormy night. He was educated at Whitgift School and the University of Warwick, where he completed a BA in English and American Literature and an MA in English Literature. Dalton moved into English language teaching, working in a variety of countries between 1996 and 2005. He then took a managerial position in Manchester, England, with the British Council, the UK's international organisation for cultural relations, a registered charity. While working there, he self-published the Flesh & Bone series: "Necromancer's Gambit" (2008), "Necromancer's Betrayal" (2009), and "Necromancer's Fall" (2010)". "In late 2011, he signed  a deal with Gollancz for "Empire of the Saviours" and a further two volumes, namely "Gateway of the Saviours" and "Tithe of the Saviours". In 2015, he published "The Book of Orm" with Kristell Ink, a collection of fantasy stories based on Scandinavian mythology. He followed that collection with "The Book of Angels" in 2016 and" The Book of Dragons" in 2017. Dalton's academic study of fantasy and its subgenres was completed in 2018, when he completed a PhD with the University of Huddersfield. That academic work, his earlier publications and website (2008) have seen him recognised as the  creator and lead author of the fantasy sub-genre known as 'metaphysical fantasy'.