Books like a blade of black steel

Jesse Bullington is an American fantasy writer from Boulder, Colorado. He has also published as Alex Marshall.

Bullington grew up in Pennsylvania, before his family moved to the Netherlands, and then back to the United States. In 2000, Bullington received his high school diploma from SAIL High School, an arts-focused magnet school in Tallahassee, Florida. In 2005, he obtained a double bachelor's degree in literature and history from Florida State University.

He is the author of several stand-alone historical fantasy novels, Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, The Enterprise of Death, and The Folly of the World, all published by Orbit Books. He has also written an epic fantasy trilogy consisting of the installments A Crown for Cold Silver, A Blade of Black Steel and A War in Crimson Embers under the pen name Alex Marshall.