In 1956 in England Joe Dever was born. According to Warlock Magazine, at the age of seven this remarkable young man became a fan of the comic strip “The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire.” Besides his interest in this well blended high and low tech fantasy comic he also loved playing with toy Roman Army Solders.
Joe Dever’s Beginnings
Joe Dever would attend Buckhurst Hill County High School. It would be there that one of his high school English tutors would introduce him to the world of science fiction/fantasy novels. This would go on to inspire him to play Dungeons & Dragons, a game with which, in 1982, he would become the first British person to win the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Championship in America.
Joe Dever the Musician
A November 2001 interview with magnamund.org reports that long before Joe Dever became internationally known for his Lone Wolf Gamebooks he was a musician. In 1976 Pye Records of London hired him. Mr. Dever would be forced a year and a half later to become a freelance musician.
In 1978 Joe Dever started working for Virgin Records where he would spend the next five years of his life as a recording engineer.
Joe Dever the Writer
Between 1975 and 1983 Mr. Dever spent most of his spare time working on what became a setting for his own Dungeons and Dragons campaign. The world of Magnamund was born and so to was the start of the early beginnings of the Lone Wolf Series.
As he worked to develop his fictional world he became a father to his son Ben. This was just two years before what was going to be one of the biggest releases of his life. In fact, in 1984 when the first book of the Lone Wolf series was released he had no idea just how popular it was going to become. It is estimated that over 10 million copies of the book have sold worldwide. Mr. Dever also has a daughter named Sophie.
Joe Dever’s Projects
Besides the Lone Wolf Series, Fantastic Fiction reports that Joe Dever has worked on the following projects:
- Lone Wolf Books 1-32
- The Freeway Warrior Series
- The Combat Heroes Series
- The World of Lone Wolf Series
- The Legends of Lone Wolf Series
- A Graphic Novel
- An Interactive Telephone Game called Phone Quest
- An Audio book
- Several Companion Books to his Lone Wolf World
Difficulty with publishers in 1995 would cumulate in the Lone Wolf Series ending in 1998. The last four books of the series were never released.
In 2003 the series came back to life with renewed interest in several countries. Between 2009 and 2010 Mongoose Publishing will be publishing the entire series, including the four books never previously published.
Health of Joe Dever
According to David Gordon in the Project Aon Forum, in 2005 Mr. Dever had surgery for kidney cancer at Cross University Hospital in London. He has made a full recovery and currently his kidney functions normally without the need of dialysis or drug treatment.
A Gift to His Fans
In 1999 Joe Dever granted the rights of some of his books to be distributed online. He called it his millennium gift to his fans. These books can currently be downloaded, free of charge, through the projectaon.org website.
To learn more about Joe Dever check out his interview on youtube.
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