Don Bassingthwaite

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Don Bassingthwaite
Born	Meaford, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Author, Novelist
Nationality	Canadian
Genre	fantasy, dark fantasy

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Don Bassingthwaite is a Canadian author from Toronto.

White Wolf Publishing

Bassingthwaite was born in Meaford, Ontario. He played Dungeons & Dragons in high school, and continued playing while earning a B.A. in anthropology at the University of Toronto. He also started writing fiction in his spare time, and submitted a story to Dragon magazine that was rejected. In 1993 at age 22, during his first year of graduate studies, he submitted a story called "Book of the Dead" to White Wolf Publishing, set in their world of Vampire: The Masquerade. White Wolf used it in a supplemental book for the Vampire game. Bassingthwaite also sold another short story to White Wolf that was published in an anthology.

In 1995, during his second year of graduate studies, he was offered a fiction contract by White Wolf that led to Such Pain, a novel set in White Wolf's World of Darkness universe. He followed this immediately with another World of Darkness novel, Pomegranates Full and Fine.

Wizard of the Coast

Alternity

After Bassingthwaite graduated with Master of Museum Studies, he wrote another novel for the World of Darkness setting, Breathe Deeply (1999), but he then started to look at new worlds being developed by Wizards of the Coast (WotC) for their science fiction role-playing game Alternity. He pitched an idea for a novel set in their Star*Drive space opera setting, but WotC was not interested. He then pitched a story idea for their Dark•Matter setting; this was accepted in 2000, and became If Whispers Call, the second of four Dark•Matter novels written by various authors. Bassingthwaite also wrote the fifth novel of the series, By Dust Consumed, but submitted it for publication in 2001 just as WotC cancelled the Alternity line of products; it was never published, but was made available as a PDF for a limited time.

Forgotten Realms

With the end of the Alternity line, Bassingthwaite switched over to WotC's popular Forgotten Realms setting, and wrote the last book of The Rogues series, The Yellow Silk (2004), as well as the second book of the Realms of the Dragons series, Beer with a Fat Dragon (2004).

Eberron

In 2002, WotC had staged a contest to create a new setting for Dungeons & Dragons v3.5; the winner was Keith Baker's Eberron. When the Eberron setting was published in 2004, Bassingthwaite pitched an idea for a series of Eberron novels. The result was The Dragon Below series: The Binding Stone (2005), The Grieving Tree (2006), and The Killing Song (2006). Reviewer Pat Ferrara recommended the series, saying, "Don Bassingthwaite created an easily accessible series with plenty of action and great personalities. If you’re looking for a fun and engrossing trilogy to sink your teeth into look no further than this trilogy."

After finishing The Dragon Below series, Bassingthqaite decided to become a full-time writer, and his next assignment was a new series concerning events in Eberron's goblin nation of Darguun using some of the characters from The Dragon Below; this became The Legacy of the Dhakaan series: The Doom of Kings (2008), The Word of Traitors (2009), and The Tyranny of Ghosts (2010).

Dungeons & Dragons 4E

When WotC published the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, the default setting for adventures was the Nentir Vale. Bassingthwaite created The Abyssal Plague trilogy set in the Nentir Vale: The Temple of Yellow Skulls (2011), Oath of Vigilance (2011), and The Eye of the Chained God (2012)

Editor: Black Gate

For a number of years, Bassingthwaite was also a contributing editor for Black Gate, writing a games and books review column. Theodore Beale called it "one of the longest and best game review columns I’ve ever read, (13 pages!), concentrating primarily on RPG books."

Bassingthwaite also contributed a number of short stories. In Issue 5 (Spring 2003), Bassingthwaite wrote his first sword & sorcery short story, "Barbarian Instinct". Alan Lattimore, on the review site Tangent Online, wrote "Cacia is a loved and indulged daughter of a well respected city merchant. Pawel is the Barbarian fighter hired to guard her and guide her from the city to safety. [...] Cacia and Pawel are both engaging characters, their situation is credible, their interaction set off sparks and their ultimate acceptance of the value of the other feels solid. A nice tale well told."

Other fiction

In 2012, Bassinghtwaite contributed a short story to the dark science fiction and music anthology Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero.

In 2016, he published a collection of comedy horror short stories, Cocktails at Seven, Apocalypse at Eight, featuring the gay protagonist Derby Cavendish. Reviewer Heather Grove enjoyed the book, calling it "marvellous [...] The characters are fantastic, with plenty of hilarity and depth to them. The world of otherworldly creatures is built well, with a glamour that helps to keep the ordinary people from remembering the strange things that go on around them."

Bibliography

World of Darkness

• Such Pain (1995, ISBN 978-0-06-105463-1 Search this book on .)
• Pomegranates Full and Fine (1995, ISBN 978-1-56504-889-8 Search this book on .)
• Breathe Deeply (1995, ISBN 978-1-56504-881-2 Search this book on .)
• "Smoke", short story contained in Book of the Kindred (1996, ISBN 978-1-56504-869-0 Search this book on ., originally published as Book of the Dead in 1993)
• As One Dead (with Nancy Kilpatrick, 1996, ISBN 978-1-56504-875-1 Search this book on .)

Dark•Matter

• If Whispers Call (2000, ISBN 978-0-7869-1679-5 Search this book on .)
• By Dust Consumed (2002, published electronically)

Dungeons & Dragons

Forgotten Realms

• The Rogues series
  • The Yellow Silk (2004, ISBN 978-0-7869-3152-1 Search this book on .)
• Mistress of the Night (With Dave Gross, 2004, ISBN 0-7869-3346-1 Search this book on .)

Eberron

• The Dragon Below trilogy
  • The Binding Stone (2005, ISBN 978-0-7869-3784-4 Search this book on .)
  • The Grieving Tree (2006, ISBN 978-0-7869-3985-5 Search this book on .)
  • The Killing Song (2006, ISBN 978-0-7869-4243-5 Search this book on .)
• The Legacy of the Dhakaan trilogy
  • The Doom of Kings (2008, ISBN 978-0-7869-4918-2 Search this book on .)
  • Word of Traitors (2009, ISBN 978-0-7869-5196-3 Search this book on .)
  • The Tyranny of Ghosts (2010, ISBN 978-0-7869-5506-0 Search this book on .)

Nentir Vale

• The Abyssal Plague Trilogy
  • The Temple of Yellow Skulls (March 2011, ISBN 978-0-7869-5749-1 Search this book on .)
  • Oath of Vigilance (August 2011, ISBN 978-0-7869-5816-0 Search this book on .)
  • The Eye of the Chained God (April 2012, ISBN 978-0-7869-5983-9 Search this book on .)

Science Fiction

• "Too Much Is Never Enough" - Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero (February 2012, ISBN 978-1-4675-1060-8 Search this book on .)

Comedy horror

• Cocktails at Seven, Apocalypse at Eight (2016)

Short stories

• "Barbarian Instinct" (published in Black Gate, Issue 5, Spring 2003)

Interviews

• "Interview with Don Bassingthwaite conducted by Pat Ferrara". Mania.com. January 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.

External links

• Don Bassingthwaite at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• "Don Bassingthwaite :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on February 11, 2005.

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