Professional sailor, SFF fan, career biologist, gamer, and author, Chris A. Jackson has a diverse bibliography of science thrillers, nautical fantasy, epic fantasy, science fiction, horror, post-apocalyptic fantasy, and RPG tie-in stories. His game tie-in work includes the Pathfinder, Iron Kingdoms, Shadowrun, Arkham Horror, and Traveller RPGs. He has over 30 novels in print and has won numerous awards, including the 2020 Scribe Award for best tie-in short story. His most recent works include the War of Souls post-apocalyptic fantasy trilogy from Falstaff Books, and the high fantasy Seeds of Darkness trilogy published under his own imprint, Jaxbooks. He and his wife, Anne, quit their perfectly good careers in 2009 to go sailing "for a few years" which turned into 13 due to their success with Chris's writing career. They never encountered any real pirates during their travels, but Chris has written three different nautical fantasy series, including his tie-in work for Paizo.