James Islington is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Will of the Many (the first novel in the Hierarchy series), The Licanius Trilogy (beginning with The Shadow of What Was Lost), and Scion. He has sold more than two million books, and his work has been translated into twenty-two different languages. He lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, with his wife and two children.

James is represented by Paul Lucas of Regal Hoffmann & Associates.