Jo Walton

Jo Walton is an SF writer, poet, and has worked on RPGs. Her filk "The Lurkers Support Me in Email" is well-known in Usenet circles.

She sold her first novel to Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor Books based in part on her participation in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.composition, a group which had an extremely high reputation for serious discussion of writing.

She was born in Wales, and currently lives in Montreal, Canada with her partner and her son.

She blogs for tor.com, posting thoughtful reviews of SF/F books from all time periods which she rereads for fun.

Works

Arthurian novel series

• The King's Peace (Tor, 2000)
• The King's Name (Tor, 2001)
• The Prize in the Game (Tor, 2002)

Small Change alternate history series

• Farthing (Tor, 2006)
• Ha'Penny (Tor, 2007)
• Half a Crown (Tor, 2008)

Other Works

• Tooth and Claw (Tor, 2003)
• Lifelode (NESFA Press, 2009)

External Links

• author's website
• the author (papersky)'s LiveJournal
• Wikipedia on "The Lurkers Support Me in Email"
• her posts on tor.com

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