Nicholas Woode-Smith

Nicholas Woode-Smith is a South African author of urban fantasy, born in Cape Town. His Kat Drummond series, beginning with Part-Time Monster Hunter, follows a young monster hunter navigating a supernatural underworld layered beneath a recognizably South African setting, a rarer backdrop within English-language urban fantasy. Woode-Smith's Blood Veil series, including Beyond the Shallow Grave and Beyond the Blood Veil, and his Cindy Giles books extend the same monster-hunting framework to further protagonists, while the Warpmancer Saga moves into a more traditional epic-fantasy register built around a distinct system of “warping” magic. Across five linked series, his work is distinguished by its African settings and grounded, action-oriented take on urban fantasy, alongside broader engagement in South African speculative-fiction circles.