Brandon Mull

Brandon Mull is an American author best known for his children's fantasy series, Fablehaven, as well as Dragonwatch, The Candy Shop War, the Beyonders trilogy, and the Five Kingdoms series.

He also began the Spirit Animals series.

Books 1, 2, and 3 were released March 2017, October 2018, and October 2019 respectively, book 4 was released October 2020; book 5 was released in October 2021.

In the story the dragons will seek to escape the sanctuaries they've been placed in, seeing them as prisons.

The only thing that can keep them under control is the order of the Dragonwatch, but most of the Dragonwatch members have died of old age.

A wizard named Agad decides to seek out Grandpa Sorensen for help, and in the process Kendra and Seth.

Kendra and Seth will have to unite forces to become dragon tamers and caretakers of Wyrmroost to keep the dragons from escaping.

A prequel called Legend of the Dragon Slayer was published between the fourth and fifth books.

Beyonders is a series about a teenage boy named Jason who gets summoned as the last chance to save Lyrian, a doomed realm ruled by the wizard Maldor.

Five Kingdoms is a series about a 12-year-old boy named Cole who was about to get enslaved by slave traders but at the last moment, he hides while his friends are being sucked away to another world called the Outskirts.

Cole decides he should save them and ends up being enslaved as well.

In the Outskirts, there are five kingdoms, each with a very different system of magic, that correspond roughly to the five books.

Candy Shop War follows Nate in a strange town full of magical candies and crazy arcades.

Smarter Than A Monster is a picture book aimed at helping kids overcome their fear of monsters by teaching good habits, such as brushing their teeth.

Brandon Mull spearheaded a multi-book series called Spirit Animals.

Each book is written by a different author but based in the same fantasy world.

Mull also contributed to True Heroes: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales, a short story anthology inspired by real children with cancer.

Mull has stated that he is currently working on a brand new series unrelated to his other works.

No details are known yet.

In June of 2020, Mull married Erlyn Madsen.

Together, they have a total of eleven children, with four from his previous marriage and seven from hers.

He is inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and J. K. Rowling.

Brandon Mull went to Mt. Diablo Elementary School in Clayton, California.

Mull then attended Pine Hollow Middle School as a student, and then attended Clayton Valley.

He currently lives in Alpine, Utah, and is a graduate of Brigham Young University in Utah.

While at BYU Mull led the sketch comedy group Divine Comedy.

Mull served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chile.

As a child, Mull was known for a strong imagination.

He would sometimes spend hours in his bedroom, without toys, just imagining and acting out stories that were in his head.

In school, his constant day dreaming sometimes irritated teachers while others encouraged his imagination.

Mull has worked as a comedian, a filing clerk, a patio installer, a movie promoter, a copywriter, and briefly as a chicken stacker.

Mull's first attempt at publishing a novel failed and was never published.

The failure led him to a job working as a marketer for the film Saints and Soldiers.

It wasn't until after the film company he worked for was acquired by a publishing company that Mull successfully published his first novel, Fablehaven.

Fablehaven is currently optioned by Schaffer Studios.

Fablehaven is about siblings Seth and Kendra Sorenson who find out their grandfather and grandmother run Fablehaven, one of the magical reserves where mythical creatures can live in peace.

They must do what they can to continue the life of the preserve.

Dragonwatch is a sequel series to Fablehaven that spans 5 books.