City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

He was still heavily involved in writing standalone novels. His first four books were set in alternate versions of our realities, however, starting with City of Stairs, the first book in the Divine Cities trilogy, the author Robert Jackson Bennett began a new stage in his writing by switching genres to fantasy. It is interesting to note that back in 2012, around the time The Troupe came out, Robert Jackson Bennett didn’t intend to write a book series at all. American Elsewhere won the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. Thus, he has knowledge of people depicted in his book, and could paint their characters with a very easy brush. Dick Awards. His third book, The Troupe, focusing on a group of Vaudeville performers and troupes that performed from one theatre to the next all over the country in the early 1900’s, has some inspiration from the author being trained a classically trained violist. His next book, The Company Man, won an Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, and it received a special citation in the Philip K.

Shivers, published December 2009, was a finalist for the Crawford Award, and it won a Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, and the Sydney J. As the process was quite slow, he had a lot of time on his hands, so he wrote the book bit by bit.

Shivers, during the time he was working at a Home Depot call center at night, while helping people on the phone with fixing pain machines. In return, as a youngster, he always tried to make the stories he was reading better, to alter them in one way or another, until he eventually started writing his own books. The author mentioned in an interview that he wrote his first novel, Mr. He always loved reading with his parents instilling in him a love for literature, as they always gave him books to read. Robert ended up living in the city even after he started his own family. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a degree in English and Government. Robert Jackson Bennett was born in 1984, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, however, he moved to Katy, Texas, with his family at the age of 10.

City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett