Love, Jeffrey Alan: - Jeffrey Alan Love is an award-winning artist and writer. He is the author of THE HERO'S QUEST, THE MOUNTAIN OF SMOKE, THE THOUSAND DEMON TREE, NOTES FROM THE SHADOWED CITY, and THE LAST BATTLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist, the British Fantasy Award for Best Artist, the Zilveren Penselen (Silver Brush) Award, a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators, two Silver Spectrum Fantastic Art Awards, and two Academy of British Cover Design Awards, he has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal, The British Science Fiction Award and the Chesley Award. His clients have included Walker Books, DC Comics, Image Comics, The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The New Yorker, Scholastic, HarperCollins, Tor, Gollancz, Ballantine Books, Candlewick Books, Small Beer Press, Del Rey and others. Born in South Carolina, he has lived in Germany, Texas, North Carolina, Nebraska, South Korea, Hawaii, Colorado, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and California.