The Guns of Empire, The Price of Valor, The Shadow Throne, and The Thousand Names are among Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns novels. He earned degrees in creative writing and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and worked in artificial intelligence research for the institution. He wrangles computers, paints miniature soldiers, and plays a variety of games when he's not creating Shadow Campaigns. He's also the author of The Forbidden Library, The Mad Apprentice, and The Palace of Glass, three middle-grade fantasy stories.