David Lee Stone (born 1978),[1] is an English fantasy author best known for his series of books The Illmoor Chronicles.
His publishers include Disney (US), Sony (Japan), Buena Vista (Italy), Hodder Headline (UK), Penguin Razorbill (USA), Open Road Integrated Media (USA), Instars Multimedia (China), Luitingh & Sithoff (Holland), Rocco (Brazil), Toymania (Russia), Pocket Jeunesse (France) and Baumhaus Verlag (Germany).
"The Dulwich Assassins" was reprinted in Knights of Madness, a fantasy anthology edited by Peter Haining that also contained stories by Terry Pratchett and Tom Sharpe.
(2003-2014) In 2002, David's agent sold the first three books of his Illmoor Chronicles to UK publishing giant Hodder Headline.
In 2014, it was announced that the full series would be released on ebook in the US by Open Road Integrated Media on 25 February 2014 and in the UK by Hodder Children's Books on 14 April 2014.
The three titles were published by Hodder Children's Books in the UK, Penguin Razorbill in the US and are forthcoming from Baumhaus Verlag in Germany, due Summer 2015.
Outcasts: Fire (2017) Between November 2013 and May 2016, Stone wrote the comedy parenting/lifestyle blog 'Bloke Called Dave' in preparation for a non-fiction title on the same subject.
Kingsbrook Publishing has released three titles to date, Shadow of the Shapeshifter, Curse of the Kingslayer and The Venom of Vanquish.
[2] To date, David has written numerous books: six volumes of The Illmoor Chronicles, the Gladiator Boy series, the pirate-fantasy novel, Davey Swag, Undead Ed, the Outcasts and the Vanquish Trilogy.