Javier Pellicer is a writer and columnist. He began his literary wanderings with stories, winning the 1st Cryptshow Fantasy Story Festival in 2008. He has been included in several anthologies: Phantasmagoria, Illusionary 2 and Chronicles of the Mark of the East. His first novel, The Spirit of the Lynx. Iberia against Cartago, was warmly received by readers and was shortlisted for the fourth Hislibris Historic Literature Award. His second novel, Legacies, pays tribute to classical fantasy. Lions of Hanibal was his much anticipated third novel.