Jamie Thomson was an assistant editor on White Dwarf from 1981 to 1984 and wrote a regular column for Warlock . While working at Games Workshop, he was one of the developers of the computer game The Tower of Despair.

From 1984 to 1996 he was a prolific and best-selling author, usually publishing at least two titles per year. One of his most successful series was The Way of the Tiger, six linked adventures about a ninja hero, written with Mark Smith. The books have been published in Japan, France, USA, Italy and Sweden. Each title sold more than 60,000 copies in the UK alone. The software version from Gremlin Graphics went straight to number one.

After twelve years as an author, he moved full-time into videogame development at Eidos Interactive, publishers of Tomb Raider. In 1999 he raised over £1 million to set up his own game development company, Black Cactus, developers of the game Warrior Kings and its follow-up Battles.

After cancellation of a further sequel to Warrior Kings by the publishers, Black Cactus was wound up. Thomson raised a quarter of a million dollars in 2007 for a new start-up, Fabled Lands LLP, an intellectual property development company specializing in its own titles to be launched as iPhone comics or novels.

In addition to originating new titles for Fabled Lands LLP, Thomson has authored a novel, Corvus, for Boxer Books and is a member of the creative team at Lionhead Studios working on Fable III for Microsoft.

Fighting Fantasy (Puffin)

• Talisman of Death
• Sword of the Samurai
• The Keep of the Lich Lord

Falcon (Sphere)

• Renegade Lord
• The Rack of Baal
• Mechanon
• Lost in Time
• The Dying Sun
• At the End of Time

Way of the Tiger (Hodder)

• Avenger
• Assassin
• Usurper
• Overlord
• Warbringer
• Inferno

Duelmaster (Armada)

• The Challenge of the Magi
• Blood Valley
• The Shattered Realm
• The Arena of Death

The Crystal Maze (Mammoth/Chatsworth)

• The Crystal Maze
• The Crystal Maze Activity Book

Eternal Champions (Sega)

• The Cyber Warriors
• The Citadel of Chaos

Fabled Lands (Pan Macmillan)

• The Wartorn Kingdom
• Plains of Howling Darkness
• The Court of Hidden Faces

Puzzle Books(Icon/Wizard)

• How Big is Your Brain?

Corvus (Boxer)

• Oath of Vengeance

Source: Duelmaster 1, Armada Publishing, 1986.