Paul B. Thompson (born 1958) is a freelance writer and novelist.[1] He has published twenty-nine books to date, many of which are novels set in the
Dragonlance fictional universe. A number of these novels are co-authored with
Tonya C. Cook.
He graduated from the
University of North Carolina in 1980 with a degree in history.[citation needed] While at UNC he met Tonya Cook through the student science fiction club, Chimera.[citation needed] He received his master's degree in 1983.[citation needed] In the period 1980-84 he wrote magazine articles and historical novels.[2] When he found no market for historical novels he turned to fantasy and science fiction.[3] He also began collaborating with Tonya Cook at that time.[4]
From 1990 to 1994 he published Forbidden Lines, a semi-pro magazine of science fiction, horror, and speculative fiction.[5]