Anton Strout, USA Today best-selling author of the Spellmason Chronicles, and host/curator of the Once and Future Podcast has died suddenly at the age of 50. His passing was announced on the Twitter account for the OandF podcast, as well as Facebook posts from family and friends.
Strout was born in 1970, grew up Dalton, Massachusetts, and worked at Penguin Random House. His debut novel arrived in 2008 from Ace Books, an urban fantasy novel titled Dead to Me, which went on to spawn three sequels in the Simon Canderous series. The Once and Future Podcast launched in 2014, a passion project where readers and writers could enjoy book-centered content and discussion. The podcast has run for over 200 episodes.
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