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Ari Marmell
Ari Marmell is an American novelist and freelance role-playing game writer. NovelsHis first novel, Gehenna: The Final Night, was published in 2004 by White Wolf Publishing. Agents of Artifice, a media tie-in novel set in the Magic: The Gathering Planeswalkers game-setting, and published by Wizards of the Coast, followed in November 2009. His first novel that was not based on a role-playing game was 2010's The Conqueror's Shadow. Reviewing the novel for Booklist, Krista Hutley wrote, "This action-packed, morally gray fantasy has an intriguingly twisty plot, full of magic and political intrigue."[1] Reviewer Clay Kallam wrote that it "has a lot going for it, but it still didn't leave me completely satisfied."[2] The sequel to The Conqueror's Shadow is 2011's The Warlord's Legacy.[3] Library Journal wrote that it "fills a vital niche in the fantasy adventurer genre, one occupied by the heroes of Michael Moorcock's Elric Melniboné novels and C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy."[4] In 2011, Marmell's novel, The Goblin Corps was published by Pyr. This novel was written from the perspective of the traditional "bad guys": the goblins themselves. In February 2012, Pyr also released Marmell's Thief's Covenant, first in his "Widdershins Adventures" Young Adult series.[5] It was followed by False Covenant,[6] the second "Widdershins Adventures" novel. The third "Widdershins Adventures" novel was announced on April 24, 2013 along with a preview of the cover art and synopsis. The novel will be published on December 3, 2013 and will be called Lost Covenant.[7] On February 1, 2012, it was announced Marmell would pen a novel set in the Darksiders universe. Darksiders is a video game series published by THQ and developed by Vigil Games. The novel is titled Darksiders: The Abomination Vault and will be published by Random House Publishing Group. The novel will ship earlier than the actual game, in July, whereas Darksiders 2 will ship in August.[8] It centers around the adventures of Death and War, two of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.[6] Short fictionNotable short stories from Marmell include "The Flight of the Righteous Indignation" from Tales of the Last War (Wizards of the Coast, April 2006), "The Ogre’s Pride," (a tie-in to The Conqueror's Shadow (originally published in Spectra Pulse, April 2010), and "Twenty-One-Oh" from the multimedia anthology, Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero (Blindsided Books, February 2012). Role-playing gamesHe has written extensively for the role-playing game industry, including White Wolf Publishing[9] and Wizards of the Coast. Dungeons & Dragons supplements for which he has written include: Personal lifeMarmell was born in New York State, but moved to Houston, Texas when he was one year old.[10] He attended college at the University of Houston, graduating in 1996. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, George.[11] References
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