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Bios at three lengths, cover art, a headshot, book details and blurbs you are welcome to cut and paste. No permission required — if it is on this page, use it.
- Name
- Robert Cade Thompson — the full three-name form, please; there is another Robert Thompson writing books.
- Based
- Florence, South Carolina
- Publisher
- Fox Clan Publishing
- Writes
- Young adult fantasy and science fiction. Two series in progress, a third book for middle grade readers being written.
- Day job
- Middle school English teacher, seventh and eighth grade
- Contact
- RobertCadeThompson@gmail.com — answered personally, usually within a couple of days
Bios · three lengths, all approved
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One line · 17 words
Robert Cade Thompson teaches middle school English in South Carolina and writes the books his students read.
Short · 52 words
Robert Cade Thompson teaches middle school English in South Carolina and writes the books his students read. He is the author of the Echo Island fantasy series and the Subterrania science fiction trilogy. He films wild places, then invents the ones that do not exist. A naturalist who writes worlds.
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Robert Cade Thompson teaches middle school English in South Carolina and writes the books his students read — they get his manuscripts before anyone else does, and they tell him which parts are boring.
He is the author of the Echo Island series, a five-book young adult fantasy built on Celtic folklore and invented botany, and Subterrania, the first of a science fiction trilogy set seven hundred years after humanity fled underground. He founded and runs a thirty-member robotics club that pays him nothing, and holds a BA in creative writing from Utah Tech.
The plants in his books are not an accident. He spends his free time in swamps, woods and wild places with a camera, filming the things most people walk past — then he puts them in a novel and gives them a name. A naturalist who writes worlds.
He publishes under Fox Clan Publishing and lives in Florence, South Carolina.
Prefer a different angle — the teaching, the fieldwork, the self-publishing? Ask and I will write one for your piece.
The books
One line and one paragraph each, plus the details nobody wants to chase.
Both series are young adult. Both open with a book that is free on Kindle Unlimited, so a reviewer can start at no cost.
Echo Island: The Clan Games
Book one of five · YA fantasy · out now
A masked thief hands fifteen-year-old Calum O’Brian a wooden box and tells him not to open it.
The Ten Clans are descended from people who fled Earth three hundred years ago, and they have spent every year since deliberately holding their own progress back. Nobody crosses the Great Wall. When Calum opens the box he finds an invitation from a people who are not human, and a technology that is botany rather than magic. Celtic folklore, invented plants that obey their own rules, and a Games nobody survives politely.
Formats: Kindle $2.99 · paperback · audiobook
Paperback ISBN: 9798882797651
Kindle ASIN: B0CYCPKCBL · Paperback ASIN: B0CXJNK8WQ · Audible ASIN: B0D464N31G
Also: free on Kindle Unlimited
Echo Island: Fall of the Ten Clans
Book two of five · YA fantasy · 6 October 2026
Four clans have fallen and declared themselves a new nation, and Calum has nothing left but a page of notes in his own handwriting.
Calum O’Brian has buried his father and lost the artifact that was going to show him the way. A rebel who was never entirely wrong gives the new nation a name. And on the far side of the Great Wall, in a forest nobody has crossed on purpose in three hundred years, something has been waiting the whole time.
Publication: 6 October 2026 · Kindle pre-order open · Kindle ASIN: B0HJMFMCVG
Formats: Kindle, paperback
Review copies: available now — email me
Subterrania
Book one of three · YA science fiction · out now
Quin is sixteen, lives a mile underground, and cannot stop going into the tunnels she was told to stay out of.
Humanity fled underground seven hundred years ago. A covert order of Engineers recruits Quin for exactly the flaw everyone else has been trying to train out of her, and within a month she has lost an arm, gained an illegal AI, and learned that everything her people believe about the enemy is a lie. Darker than Echo Island — this one is for older readers.
Formats: Kindle $4.99 · paperback $14.99 · hardcover $22.99
Kindle ASIN: B0FN2G54PG · Paperback ASIN: B0FN4MS3G6 · Hardcover ASIN: B0FN4FB5HK
Also: free on Kindle Unlimited
The Belrose Journals
Companion novella · not for sale · free
A botanist’s field journal from the Amazon in 1924 that stops on the day Fall of the Ten Clans begins.
Eight dated entries and three illustrated plates, in a steady scientific hand, right up until the world stops being the one he walked into. Given free to readers and never sold. Useful if you want the shortest possible sample of the writing.
Format: PDF and EPUB · free at robertcadethompson.com/free
Illustrations: Lucy Egbert
Prices checked against Amazon 12 September 2026 · tell me if one looks wrong and I will correct it here
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- Headshot
- Download — 420 × 563 WebP
Web resolution. For print, ask — the original is 2048 × 2048 and I will send it straight over. - Subterrania cover
- Download — 1800 × 2701 PNG, print resolution
- Echo Island covers
- Web resolution on this page. Print files on request — and if you are covering book two, ask rather than pulling the cover off this page, because book one’s art is being re-cut right now.
- File types
- Most of the above are WebP, which some newsroom systems still refuse. Say the word and you get JPEG or PNG.
- Photography
- Wildlife and field footage from the YouTube channel can be licensed for use with a piece. Ask.
Interview angles that are actually different
- The classroom
- A teacher whose own students workshop his unpublished manuscripts, chapter by chapter, and tell him what is boring. The middle-grade novel in progress started as a decommissioned bathroom in the back corner of his classroom that he named the closet of doom.
- The method
- Invented botany that has to obey real rules. He films wild places, then builds the species that do not exist and makes them behave like the ones that do.
- The robotics club
- Founded it, runs it, thirty members, paid nothing for any of it.
- Self-published
- Every title, including the audiobook. Happy to talk about what that actually costs and what it actually returns, with numbers.