A. J. Hartley

Hartley made his UK debut in March 2018 with the publication of Cold Bath Street, a YA ghost story/ thriller set in his home town of Preston, Lancashire. The book’s title comes from a real street that once housed a public baths for poor Prestonians to bathe in, and is reputed to be haunted. Published by UCLan Publishing, the book was edited, designed, project-managed and produced by students on UCLan’s MA Publishing course, the only student-run, student-led publishing house in the world. The book was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal and performed for audio by Christopher Eccleston. The same publisher will release Hartley's Darwen Arkwright series (re-named Monsters in the Mirror) in 2019. The sequel to Cold Bath Street will be published in October 2019. Monsters in the Mirror, UK edition of Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact, was published on 1 March 2019.

His latest adult thrillers, authored under the pseudonym Andrew Hart, are Lies That Bind Us (2018) and The Woman in Our House (2019) from Lake Union Publishing.

June 2016 saw the release of the first of his new young adult series, SteepleJack, from Tor Teen. The book received several starred reviews from trade journals including Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly and ALA Booklist. It was listed as one of Kirkus's Best Teen Books for 2016 and won both the Manly Wade Wellman and International Thriller Writers Awards. It was followed by Firebrand in 2017 and Guardian in 2018.

He is currently working with Tom DeLonge (of Angels and Airwaves and formerly Blink-182) on a novel series – Sekret Machines – released by DeLonge's To The Stars company in 2016. The series will have 3 books and a documentary film. The first book in the series, Chasing Shadows, was accompanied by a 4 track EP of the same name by Angels and Airwaves. Hartley is also writing a new Young Adult scifi series to be published by DeLonge's To The Stars Inc. and distributed by Simon and Schuster, called Cathedrals of Glass. The first book, Planet of Blood and Ice, will be released in February 2017. A limited signed edition was released through To The Stars in November 2016 and sold out in 36 hours. With DeLonge's company partnered with Simon and Schuster Hartley also writes the young adult sci-fi Cathedrals of Glass series.

The first of three middle grades and young adult adventures, Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact, was released from Razorbill (Penguin) in October 2011. In 2011 he co-authored with David Hewson a novelization of Shakespeare's Macbeth written specially for audio and released by Audible.com in June, narrated by Alan Cumming. His second collaboration with Hewson – an audio novel based on Hamlet, performed by Richard Armitage – was named Audible.com's best book of 2014 and was nominated for two Audie awards.

Andrew James Hartley (born 1964) is a British-born American novelist, who writes mystery thrillers and fantasy adventures for children and adults. He used to blog regularly for the writers' site Magical Words and is a regular presenter at Thrillerfest and Dragon Con. His thrillers have been USA Today and New York Times bestsellers and his 5th novel, Will Power, was listed by Kirkus Reviews as one of the 15 best fantasy/scifi books of 2010. He also writes thrillers as Andrew Hart.