JJD Thomas

James Jefferson DeRosier Thomas (He/They) is a new fiction Author living in North Carolina. He is the author of Against a Sea of Troubles and the forthcoming Apoterasis. You can find his debut novel at https://bit.ly/Troubles-Bookshop

He loves to write new stories in strange worlds. He has a love of dark deals and forcing his characters to make a choice between a bad option and a worse one.

Jefferson loves novels more than anything else. He grew up on Harry Potter and Eragon, then moved into some of more classical fantasy. He spent much of middle and high school reading through all of Reymond Feist’s body of work. His favorite authors are Kurt Vonnegut and Brandon Sanderson.

Jefferson has an MFA in Creative Writing from American University, and a BA in philosophy from Duke University. He intends to write as a full time career.