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David John Butler is an award-winning American speculative fiction author. His epic flintlock fantasy novel Witchy Winter won the 2018 AML Award for Best Novel and the 2018 Whitney Award for Best Speculative Fiction. Both Witchy Eye and Witchy Winter were finalists for the Dragon Award in 2017 and 2018 (respectively), and Witchy Eye was a preliminary nominee for the Gemmell Morningstar Award.

He spent over a decade working as a lawyer for companies including Micron Technology and Intel before opening an independent firm in 2010. As of 2019, he is employed as a corporate trainer, using his skills as a storyteller to educate business people. His American epic flintlock fantasy series, Witchy Eye, set in an alternate 1815 America. He also has a middle grade series about a clockwork boy, Charlie Pondicherry, who has various adventures.