James Lovegrove is the author of over 70 books, including the novels The Hope, Days, Untied Kingdom, Provender Gleed, and the New York Times bestselling Pantheon series. He has produced eight Sherlock Holmes novels, a collection of Holmes short stories, and a four-volume Conan Doyle/Lovecraft mashup series, The Cthulhu Casebooks. He has also written four tie-in novels for the TV show Firefly, Doctor Strange and Fantastic Four novels for Marvel, and a novel featuring pulp hero Conan the barbarian, Cult of the Obsidian Moon.

James has sold well over 60 short stories and published two collections, Imagined Slights and Diversifications. He has produced a dozen short books for readers with reading difficulties, and a four-volume fantasy saga for teenagers, The Clouded World, under the pseudonym Jay Amory.

James has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Society Award, the Manchester Book Award and the Scribe Award. His short story “Carry The Moon In My Pocket” won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Translated Short Story, and Firefly: The Ghost Machine won the 2020 Dragon Award for Best Media Tie-in Novel. His work has been translated into eighteen languages, and his journalism has appeared in periodicals as diverse as The Literary Review, Interzone, BBC MindGames, All About History, The Baker Street Journal and Comic Heroes.

He contributes regular fiction review columns to the Financial Times and lives with his wife Lou in Eastbourne.