JPD

AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY

I was born in Portsmouth on the south coast of England in the middle of a snowstorm; word has it the same was true of Charles Dickens. I’d love to say we have more than this in common. Due to my dad’s career, home has been Portsmouth, Bristol, Birmingham and a few other places in between. I’ve also lived in Jane Austen’s Bath, but again, I can’t say that was more than a coincidence. On average, I move about ten miles north yearly. If this trend continues, I’ll probably finish up somewhere close to the Faeroe Isles.

I've been writing full-time since I was twenty-two, though probably more because of stubbornness than success. Like most writers, I amassed well over a hundred rejection slips — and once had the honour of receiving three in the same envelope. After five years of following traditional advice and chasing the perfect agent, I took the leap of faith and joined the indie revolution. Less than four months later, The Templar Agenda was ranked number 16 in the UK chart, having sold more copies in a single day than in those first five years combined. I regard that period as the most important of my life — not despite the failures, but because of them.

Writing aside, I've worked for the Ministry of Defence — some have erroneously claimed as a spy — graduated university, turned my back on the corporate ladder, travelled the world, proved the existence of a Templar-governed New World Order, and nearly got lost in a cave trying to salvage Montezuma's treasure. One of the above I might have made up, but it's probably not the one you think. These days I spend most of my time in Shakespeare's old town, and when I'm not out exploring cathedrals, ruined castles or the English countryside, I'm usually watching Aston Villa and dreaming up new plot twists.


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JPD x


PRAISE FOR JOHN PAUL DAVIS

'John Paul Davis clearly owns the genre of historical thrillers!'
Steven Sora, Author of The Lost Colony of the Templars

'If John Paul Davis wrote the phone book we'd all be reading it!'
Keith Houghton, #1 Bestselling Thriller Author

'Takes you on a fast-paced, thoroughly researched thrill ride!'
David Leadbeater, #1 Bestselling Thriller Author and Winner of the Amazon Storytelling Award

COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

More than 250,000 copies sold or borrowed
More than 14 million KENP read

Five times in the UK Top 100
Once in the US Top 20
#1 in Historical Thrillers in the UK and Australia

AFFILIATIONS

Active member of International Thriller Writers (ITW)
Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society