B. Kent Anderson

B. Kent Anderson is an award-winning novelist, journalist and broadcaster. A graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma, he has worked as a radio announcer and producer since age fifteen, served a stint in marketing for a symphony orchestra, and is currently a features writer for Oklahoma-based Slice Magazine.

His new book, the Civil War-based contemporary thriller Cold Glory, was published by Forge Books in October 2011. The next book in his series featuring history professor Nick Journey and government researcher/pianist Meg Tolman is Silver Cross, which will be published in November 2012.

Under the pseudonym David Kent, he is the author of the Department Thirty series of thrillers, including The Blackjack Conspiracy, which won the Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction in 2006. His magazine feature stories have also received multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists.

He lives with his three sons in Oklahoma City, where he reads and writes, listens to a lot of acoustic music, and fervently cheers for the Texas Rangers baseball team. He is always on the lookout for more historical intrigues and is at work on his next novel.