JD Stanley
ALLi Author Member
Location: Canada
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Horror, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Speculative Fiction
JD Stanley is a Canadian fantasy author and solitary Bardic Druid. JD honed voice and audio editing chops in the 80s as a radio announcer and studio engineer before embracing a lifelong guy-behind-the-curtain freelance career as a commercial and content copywriter, voiceover artist, proofreader, ghostwriter and script doctor. Landed Entertainment director Junga Song once called JD “the greatest writer nobody’s ever heard of”. The fictional worlds of Mary Stewart, Colleen McCullough, Tolkien, Heinlein, Cervantes and Shakespeare bent JD’s world perception into a magical place of unlikely heroes, quests, the interconnectedness of past and future and that though bad things happen to regular folks, a dollop of wit can make it bearable. Unapologising mythology and ancient history junkie, sorcery of science lover, and student of human interaction, JD’s combined passions weave rich speculative explorations into traditional concepts of good and evil where flawed heroes most often struggle to get out of their own way to do the right thing. JD enjoys long, meditative walks through graveyards, reading encyclopaedias, and accepts that guinea pigs do, in fact, take over your entire life. JD has been known to consort with cranky unicorns.
JD Stanley's books
Genres: Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
A kingdom teeters on the brink of ruin. Displaced Irish Druid, Bronan, knows the real reason for the fall of Edenshire. Fourth century Christendom banishes earthy gods into myth throughout Roman Britain and though one of the last living agents of the Mother Goddess, She no longer speaks to him. No matter what he does, his gazing bowl predicts nothing beyond the flames of their destruction. The king is dead. And it’s his fault. A magical pact with his best friend, King Manfred, failed as their salvation from internal treachery and thirteen years later, Bronan flounders under guilt for his horrible mistake. Manfred’s depraved brother, Barry the Red, drowns the throne in bloody madness so heinous, the Land itself cries out for justice while Sir William and his knights play cat-and-mouse with Barry’s vicious mercenaries. Amid unsavoury plans for the orphaned, now marriageable-aged Princess Brigit, she battles lessons in ladyship...
Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
★Book Excellence Award 2017 Fantasy Finalist★ In 3213 BCE Sumer, the Great Mountain, Enlil, banishes his sister, Ninlil, to the Netherworld for taking her temple priest as consort. But her Kurshram fights a life-sacrificing way through the flaming palace to trade his soul to free her. A thousand years later, a dark deed wakes his dead, empty flesh… Richard can’t die. And he’s a monster. Maybe. Sullen, and sarcastic, he’s a soul divided. A healer by trade, a conflicting blood-stealing curse drives him slowly mad while people keep showing up for help. Mostly? He wants to be left alone. And that’s just not working out. In eighteenth century Britain, injured, conscience-stirring Maggie falls across his threshold to challenge everything he believes is true. Until vicious pirate captain, Billy the Blackdeath, with a secret as old as his own, tangles them up in an inhuman vendetta that puts his unkempt scruples...