Mark Anthony (writer)

Mark Anthony is an American author who lives and writes in Colorado.
Career.
Anthony wrote a number of novels based on "Dungeons & Dragons" published worlds, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Ravenloft. His first such novel was "Crypt of the Shadowking" in The Harpers series, and he has written several short stories as well.
Anthony had written a novel about Drizzt Do'Urden called "The Shores of Dusk" by the time Wizards of the Coast acquired TSR; however, Wizards opted not to publish Anthony's novel in favor of bringing back R. A. Salvatore to write about Drizzt, beginning with "The Silent Blade" (1998).
Anthony is best known for "The Last Rune" series, which he developed to explore the idea that reason and wonder need not exist in conflict. Recently he has written a trilogy under the pseudonym Galen Beckett, beginning with a novel "The Magicians and Mrs. Quent", whose blurb, similarly to "The Last Rune", claims that the book was written to given an answer to the question "what if there was a fantastical cause underlying the social constraints and limited choices confronting a heroine in a novel by Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte?".