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Quick Facts
- Name: Malory (also publishes as Jake Malory for the Psyker Marine and Arcane Galaxy series)
- Based in: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Genres: LitRPG, progression fantasy, sci-fi, hardboiled mystery, middle-grade adventure
- Notable award: 2026 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award for Orbital Decay
- Publishers: Aethon Books, Legion Publishers, Soundbooth Theater, Raconteur Press, LitForge, Royal Guard
- Books in print: 30+ across seven series
- Academic work: PhD candidate researching men's reading habits and the male reading decline
Author Bio — Three Lengths
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Malory is the 2026 winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award and a PhD candidate researching men's reading habits. He writes LitRPG, sci-fi and progression fantasy — including the Morgan & Merlin and Soar Chronicles series — and publishes military science fiction as Jake Malory. He is based in Birmingham, UK.
Malory is the 2026 winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award and a PhD candidate researching men's reading habits. His doctoral work argues for LitRPG and progression fantasy as a genre-level intervention in the male reading decline; his fiction tests the argument. He has published more than thirty books across seven series, including Morgan & Merlin (Dark Age cultivation), The Soar Chronicles (hardboiled mystery), and — as Jake Malory — the Psyker Marine and Arcane Galaxy series. He works with Aethon Books, Legion Publishers, and Soundbooth Theater, and lives in Birmingham, UK.
Malory is the 2026 winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, presented at the International Space Development Conference for his hard-SF short Orbital Decay, published at Baen.com. He is also a PhD candidate researching men's reading habits — specifically the persistent gender gap in adolescent and adult reading that has widened steadily for fifty years. His doctoral argument is that LitRPG and progression fantasy work as a genre-level intervention in the male reading decline; his fiction tests the argument.
He has published more than thirty books across seven series. Morgan & Merlin places a reincarnated, cultivation-cursed protagonist in Dark Age Cornwall. The Soar Chronicles is a hardboiled mystery in a city where faith is literal currency. Punish the System, co-written with Cassius Lange, is a post-apocalypse. Under the pen name Jake Malory he writes the combat-focused Psyker Marine — also known as the Galactic Invasion series — solo, and Arcane Galaxy, a space western with Troy Osgood. He contributes widely to the Raconteur Press anthologies and writes the Boy's Own Adventures line.
Malory works with Aethon Books, Legion Publishers, Soundbooth Theater, Raconteur Press, LitForge and Royal Guard. He is based in Birmingham, UK.
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Award & Press Coverage
The 2026 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award is Baen Books' annual prize for forward-looking science fiction. Malory's winning story Orbital Decay was published at Baen.com; the ceremony is at the International Space Development Conference in McLean, Virginia, 4–7 June 2026. A dedicated page about the award and the story is available on this site.
Interviews & Topics
Malory is available for podcasts, written interviews, and speaking engagements. Subject areas he is particularly well-placed to talk on:
- The male reading decline. The research, the contested debates, what's actually working, and why fiction (specifically) matters.
- LitRPG and progression fantasy as a literary phenomenon. Origins, the Royal Road / serialisation pipeline, what the genre does that mainstream fiction doesn't.
- Writing for young men. The Boy's Own Adventures line and the question of whether classic-adventure structure can compete with screens.
- Indie publishing and collaborative authorship. Writing across pen names and co-author partnerships (Troy Osgood, Cassius Lange).
- Hard SF short fiction. The craft and the Baen prize.
Contact
For press, interviews, podcasts, and speaking enquiries:
maloryauthor2@gmail.comResponse time: usually within 48 hours.