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Born | David John Butler |
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Years active | 2010–present [1] |
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Spouse | Emily Butler [1] |
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David John Butler is an American speculative fiction author. His epic flintlock fantasy novel Witchy Kingdom won the Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel in 2020. Witchy Winter won the 2018 AML Award for Best Novel and the 2018 Whitney Award for Best Speculative Fiction, and Witchy Eye was a preliminary nominee for the Gemmell Morningstar Award.
Butler attended the New York University School of Law, earning his Juris Doctor in 1999. He is married to Emily Butler. [1] He spent over a decade working as a lawyer for companies including Micron Technology before opening an independent firm in 2010. [2] He is employed as a corporate trainer, using his skills as a storyteller to educate business people. [2] He began pursuing his childhood dream of being an author in 2010. [3] His steampunk Western novel, City of Saints, was a 2012 Whitney Award finalist in the speculative fiction category. [4] He also worked as acquisitions editor for WordFire Press. [2]
In 2017, Baen published the first of Butler's American epic flintlock fantasy series, Witchy Eye, set in an alternate 1815 America. [5] It was a finalist for a Dragon Award in 2017 [6] and was a preliminary nominee for a Gemmell Morningstar Award in 2018. [7] The second book in the series, Witchy Winter, won the 2018 AML Award for Best Novel, the 2018 Whitney Award for Best Speculative Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2018 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel. [8] [9] [10] Witchy Kingdom won the Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel in 2020. [11]
Alternate history Civil War era featuring secret agents Samuel Clemens and Edgar Allan Poe trying to obtain the plans for airship and ray gun technology.
An omnibus, collecting all four novels, was also published:
A clockwork boy, Charlie Pondicherry, has various adventures. This is a middle grade series.
Two omnibuses collect the first six novels:
Alternate history flintlock fantasy set in the early 1800s North America.
The writing in Time Trials, co-authored with M. A. Rothman, was described as "highly enjoyable" and "entertaining", having well-developed characters, and praised for "refreshingly [showing] respect for ancient civilizations and their accomplishments". [23]
Butler has received the following awards and honors:
Year | Organization | Award title, Category | Work | Result | Refs |
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2012 | Storymakers | Whitney Award, Best Speculative Fiction | City of Saints | Finalist | [4] |
2016 | Association for Mormon Letters | AML Award, Middle Grade Novel | The Kidnap Plot | Finalist | [24] |
2017 | Dragon Con | Dragon Award, Best Alternate History Novel | Witchy Eye | Finalist | [6] |
2018 | DGLA | Gemmell Award, Morningstar Award | Witchy Eye | Preliminary nominee | [7] |
2018 | Association for Mormon Letters | AML Award, Novel | Witchy Winter | Won | [9] |
2018 | Dragon Con | Dragon Award, Best Alternate History Novel | Witchy Winter | Finalist | [8] |
2018 | Storymakers | Whitney Award, Best Speculative Fiction | Witchy Winter | Won | [10] |
2019 | Association for Mormon Letters | AML Award, Novel | The Cunning Man (with Aaron Michael Ritchey) | Finalist | [25] |
2020 | Dragon Con | Dragon Award, Best Alternate History Novel | Witchy Kingdom | Won | [11] |
2021 | Association for Mormon Letters | AML Award, Novel | The Jupiter Knife (with Aaron Michael Ritchey) | Finalist | [26] |
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