Don Bassingthwaite

Don Bassingthwaite
Born	Meaford, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	writer
Nationality	Canada
Genre	fantasy, dark fantasy

Don Bassingthwaite is a Canadian author.

Biography

Bassingthwaite was born in Meaford, Ontario, and now lives and works in Toronto.^[1] He has degrees in anthropology and museum studies and is the author of numerous fantasy and dark fantasy novels.^[1] Many of his works are set in the fictional universes of role-playing games. He has written novels for gaming companies including Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf Game Studios.

Personal life

Bassingthwaite lives with his partner in Toronto.^[2]

Publications

For the World of Darkness

• Such Pain (1995, ISBN 978-0-06-105463-1)
• Pomegranates Full and Fine (1995, ISBN 978-1-56504-889-8)
• Breathe Deeply (1995, ISBN 978-1-56504-881-2)
• "Smoke", short story contained in Book of the Kindred (1996, ISBN 978-1-56504-869-0, originally published as Book of the Dead in 1993)
• As One Dead (with Nancy Kilpatrick, 1996, ISBN 978-1-56504-875-1)

For Dark•Matter

• If Whispers Call (2000, ISBN 978-0-7869-1679-5)
• By Dust Consumed (2002, published electronically)

For Dungeons & Dragons

• The Rogues series, set in the Forgotten Realms
  • The Yellow Silk (2004, ISBN 978-0-7869-3152-1)
• Set in the Forgotten Realms
  • Mistress of the Night (With Dave Gross, 2004, ISBN 0-7869-3346-1)
• The Dragon Below series, set in Eberron
  • The Binding Stone (2005, ISBN 978-0-7869-3784-4)
  • The Grieving Tree (2006, ISBN 978-0-7869-3985-5)
  • The Killing Song (2006, ISBN 978-0-7869-4243-5)
• The Legacy of the Dhakaan series, set in Eberron
  • The Doom of Kings (2008, ISBN 978-0-7869-4918-2)
  • The Word of Traitors (2009, ISBN 978-0-7869-5196-3)
  • "The Tyranny of Ghosts" (2010, ISBN 978-0-7869-5506-0)
• The Abyssal Plague Trilogy, set in Nentir Vale
  • Book 1 The Temple of Yellow Skulls (March 2011, ISBN 978-0-7869-5749-1)
  • Book 2 Oath of Vigilance (August 2011, ISBN 978-0-7869-5816-0)
  • Book 3 The Eye of the Chained God (April 2012, ISBN 978-0-7869-5983-9)

Science Fiction

• "Too Much Is Never Enough" - Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero (February 2012, ISBN 978-1-4675-1060-8)

Interviews

• Interview with Don Bassingthwaite conducted by Pat Ferrara at Mania.com. (January 2007)

References

1. "Don Bassingthwaite". Archived from the original on Feb 24, 2009.
2. http://dbassingthwaite.com/?page_id=2

External links

• dbassingthwaite.com is the author's web site.
• Don Bassingthwaite at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database