Anne Bishop

2 universes Last reviewed 2026-08-27

Anne Bishop is an American fantasy writer born in 1955 who resides in upstate New York. She began publishing short stories in 1989 before moving to novels, and is best known for the Black Jewels trilogy, comprising Daughter of the Blood (1998), Heir to the Shadows (1999), and Queen of the Darkness (2000), which earned her the Crawford Award in 2000, as well as the Others series. Beyond these, Bishop has built an extensive body of speculative fiction, including the Tir Alainn Trilogy, the Landscapes of Ephemera series, and standalone novels and short story collections set within her established universes, and she is currently working on the Isle of Wyrd series. Her novels are distributed internationally in multiple languages.

Universe(s)

Books

• Daughter of the Blood (1998) · Black Jewels Core Canon
• Heir to the Shadows (1999) · Black Jewels Core Canon
• Queen of the Darkness (2000) · Black Jewels Core Canon
• The Invisible Ring (2000) · Black Jewels Expanded Canon
• Tangled Webs (2008) · Black Jewels Expanded Canon
• The Shadow Queen (2009) · Black Jewels Expanded Canon
• Shalador's Lady (2010) · Black Jewels Expanded Canon
• Written in Red (2013) · The Others Core Canon
• Murder of Crows (2014) · The Others Core Canon
• Vision in Silver (2015) · The Others Core Canon
• Marked in Flesh (2016) · The Others Core Canon
• Etched in Bone (2017) · The Others Core Canon
• Lake Silence (2018) · The Others Core Canon
• Wild Country (2019) · The Others Core Canon
• The Queen's Bargain (2020) · Black Jewels Expanded Canon
• The Queen's Weapons (2021) · Black Jewels Expanded Canon
• Crowbones (2022) · The Others Core Canon
• The Queen's Price (2023) · Black Jewels Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

These are separate, unrelated universes; the totals below are plain sums of already-published per-universe facts, never a blended or averaged score across them. See each universe's own figures above.

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 11 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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