David Lee Stone (born 1978), is an English fantasy author best known for his series of books The Illmoor Chronicles. He has also written under the pseudonyms David L. Stone, David Grimstone and Rotterly Ghoulstone. His books have been published in many countries and in several different languages. His publishers include Disney (US), Sony (Japan), Buena Vista (Italy), Hodder Headline (UK), Penguin Razorbill (USA), Open Road Integrated Media (USA), Instars Multimedia (China), Luitingh & Sithoff (Holland), Rocco (Brazil), Toymania (Russia), Pocket Jeunesse (France) and Baumhaus Verlag (Germany). Agents Between 1999 and 2014, David was represented by renowned literary agents Ed Victor Ltd, choosing the company specifically because they represented the estate of his hero, the late Douglas Adams. He left the agency in 2014 when his personal friend and long-term rights agent, Sophie Hicks (then Managing Director of the company), left to establish her own agency. Since 2014, he has been represented by Sophie as part of The Sophie Hicks Agency. Early work David started writing at the age of 10 and was submitting manuscripts to publishers by the time he was 13. His first ever appearance in print was in the letters section of the science fiction comic 2000 AD in April 1993, and his first short story "The Dulwich Assassins" was published in Xenos magazine during April 1997. David soon began to write short stories, review columns and articles for many different magazines. Between 1997 and 2002, his work appeared in Interzone, SFX, Games Workshop's Citadel Journal, The Edge and many others. "The Dulwich Assassins" was reprinted in Knights of Madness, a fantasy anthology edited by Peter Haining that also contained stories by Terry Pratchett and Tom Sharpe. The Illmoor Chronicles (2003-2014) In 2002, David's agent sold the first three books of his Illmoor Chronicles to UK publishing giant Hodder Headline. The series, which David had started creating in note-form when he was just 12 years old, went on to sell to Disney in the US, Sony in Japan and also in China, Russia, Japan, France, Italy, Brazil, Greece, Norway, Netherlands and Thailand. The Ratastrophe Catastrophe (2003) The Yowler Foul-up (2004) The Shadewell Shenanigans (2005) The Dwellings Debacle (2006) The Vanquish Vendetta (2006) The Coldstone Conflict (2007) In 2014, it was announced that the full series would be released on ebook in the USA by Open Road Integrated Media on 25 February 2014 and in the UK by