D.J. Butler

D.J. Butler is an American novelist from Rocky Mountain west, who writes children’s fiction, science fiction, steampunk, and fantasy novels. Butler trained as a lawyer and worked as a legal expert for a major multinational semiconductor manufacturer, and as a securities lawyer before going into private practice. He is also a corporate trainer, consultant, and teacher of business acumen to employees of some of the top companies in the United States. He is famously a lover of the languages and language, a voracious reader, self-recorder, and guitarist. He has been authoring works of fiction since 2010, specializing in a wide range of genres from horror, dystopian fiction, alternate history, superhero, cyberpunk, steampunk, space opera, science fiction, and fantasy. He writes novels for adult readers, young adult, and middle grade readers most of which are published by Knopf. In addition to his writing, he acts as WordFire’s Acquisitions Editor and performs improvised interactive theater at fantasy and science fiction conventions with friends from his writing groups. He is married to fellow novelist Emily who he describes as a clever and powerful woman with whom he has three children. His children are players of games, speakers of foreign tongues, musicians, writers, and readers just like their father. Butler lives in Stephen R. Covey’s first home in Utah, and works from the same office from which the acclaimed author penned his “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”.