Royce Buckingham

About Royce Buckingham Royce Buckingham is a Washington State author with an English degree from Whitman College and a Law degree from the University of Oregon. Royce wrote for 13 years before he sold his first novel, DEMONKEEPER. He has since made numerous reading lists with his middle grade monster books, has had novels published in more than ten countries, and has hit the bestseller list overseas with both DEMONKEEPER and his medieval fantasy series, MAPPER, which is published in both...See more

About Royce Buckingham Royce Buckingham is a Washington State author with an English degree from Whitman College and a Law degree from the University of Oregon. Royce wrote for 13 years before he sold his first novel, DEMONKEEPER. He has since made numerous reading lists with his middle grade monster books, has had novels published in more than ten countries, and has hit the bestseller list overseas with both DEMONKEEPER and his medieval fantasy series, MAPPER, which is published in both Germany and the U.S.. He won Washington's Sasquatch Award for Best Middle Grade Novel with his ghost story THE DEAD BOYS, which is set in Richland, WA, where he grew up near the Hanford nuclear plant (which explains a few things). Royce has now written eleven novels for Penguin, St. Martin's Press, and Random House. He sold his screenplay DEMONKEEPER to 20th Century Fox in 2006, and he recently attended DEMONKEEPER the stage play at Western Washington University. He's penned a YA thriller, THE TERMINALS, and an adult thriller, IMPASSE, and his medieval epic PRINCESS ASSASSIN will be released by Random House in Germany in 2017. Royce lives in Bellingham, WA with his beautiful wife and two fabulous boys. See less