[1] He has worked in China, including as a teacher[2] in a rural area of Anhui from 2006 to 2008 and as a translator for a car magazine.
[5][6] It was followed by Two Serpents Rise in 2013, Full Fathom Five in 2014, Last First Snow in 2015, and Four Roads Cross in 2016, all part of his Craft Sequence.
[11] The serial, written by Gladstone, Smith, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian Tregillis, and Michael Swanwick, is a Cold War supernatural spy thriller set in the 1970s.
Simon & Schuster's Saga Press imprint released print collections of the first season of Bookburners in January 2017.
[15] Since 2016, he is also part of the team of writers working on George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards anthology series.