Douglas Niles has written nearly 40 novels.  He is best known as an author of adventure fantasy, but has also seen the publication of three major WW2 alternate history novels, MacArthur’s War, Fox on the Rhine and Fox at the Front (all co-authored with Michael Dobson).  Released in hardcover by Forge, a division of TOR, Fox on the Rhine and MacArthur’s War were both a main selection of the Military Book Club and a Featured selection of the Science Fiction Book Club.  They have been released in hardcover and paperback. He is currently at work, with Dobson, on another alt-history thriller.

    Niles is also the author of a science fiction novel based on HG Wells’ seminal work:  War of the Worlds: New Millennium, published by Tor in 2005, and is working the Starstrike science fiction series with co-author Kevin Dockery. Niles has created two dramatic and unique fantasy worlds in books published by Ace Fantasy.  The Watershed Trilogy (A Breach in the Watershed;  Darkenheight;  The War of Three Waters) was completed in the late 1990’s, and features a continent divided by mountains into three distinct basins, watersheds of pure, normal water; of magical liquid (Aura); and of vile, poisonous Darkblood.  Circle at Center, Worldfall, and The Goddess Worldweaver  form the Seven Circles Trilogy, detailing a cosmos in which historical characters from Earth can be drawn into the realms of magic, through sorcery both deadly and erotic.

    He has written extensively for the shared worlds of TSR Inc, (now Wizards of the Coast).  His Dragonlance ® titles include:  The Rise of Solamnia Trilogy (Lord of the Rose; The Crown and The Sword; The Measure and the Truth) Wizards Conclave, the Icewall Trilogy (The Messenger, The Golden Orb; Winterheim), Emperor of Ansalon, The Dragons, The Puppet King, Fistandantilus Reborn, Flint the King (with Mary Kirchoff), and The Last Thane.  Right now he is working on a new Dragonlance trilogy, covering the dwarven realms in the World of Krynn, beginning with The Secret of Pax Tharkas, to be released in late 2007. He has written more fiction for Dragonlance than any author except the series creators, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.  Doug Niles is also the author of the very first Forgotten Realms novel (Darkwalker on Moonshae, reprinted in 2004) and in all contributed nine novels to the FR line.

    He has designed dozens of games for TSR Inc and SPI, including award-winning military simulation games based on Tom Clancy’s novels The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising.  He has developed miniatures rules for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons ® game, and created numerous historical military board games.  One of these simulations, combining his massive games European Theatre of Operations and Pacific Theatre of Operations, is the focus of a continuing group of enthusiastic players and has a website devoted to those fans and that gaming system.

    A lifelong cheesehead and Green Bay Packer fan, Niles is a former teacher who left that profession only because he had a chance to make a living while playing at his twin hobbies of writing and gaming.  He now lives in the countryside of Wisconsin with his wife (his two children having grown up and moved out) as well as a large dog and a very self-sufficient cat.  When he is not writing he enjoys hiking, bicycling, playing the guitar, and enjoying the company of his friends and family.