Rik Hoskin is a comic book writer and novelist from Dorset, United Kingdom. He wrote the New York Times bestselling graphic novel, White Sand, with fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, and has also written Superman, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Mercy Thompson, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein and helped develop a successful Spider-Man title aimed at younger readers. He's recently written two animated 'motion comics' for BBC Television in the U.K. As a novelist, Rik has written Hercules, the Legendary Journeys and was previously the primary author on the Outlanders science fiction series under the pen-name 'James Axler', as whom he wrote twenty-four novels.