The Imprint
About WYrmwood Books
Wyrmwood Books is the independent publishing imprint of Welsh author Dylan Jones — writing crime fiction as Rhys Dylan and urban fantasy as D.C. Farmer. Two distinct voices, one imprint, published from Wales.
Crime Fiction Author
Rhys Dylan
Rhys Dylan was born and raised in the Swansea Valley, where summers on an open cast mine gave him his first taste of Wales at its most unvarnished. He spent his working life as an eye surgeon before the writing took over — though crime fiction, he'd argue, demands much the same qualities: close observation, pattern recognition, and a lifelong habit of looking beneath the surface for the trouble that lies beneath.
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He published adult novels under his own name, two of which became BBC films, before dabbling in children's books and contemporary fantasy. Eventually, retirement from the day job brought him back to crime. His first novel as Rhys Dylan, The Engine House, appeared in 2022 and introduced DCI Evan Warlow: a retired detective dragged back to work when a landslip on the Pembrokeshire coast uncovers two bodies missing for eight years. Warlow has not been allowed to retire since.
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The series now runs to more than twenty books, published under his own imprint, Wormwood Books, and has made him an Amazon bestseller in four countries. It has also been longlisted for the 2026 Dagger in the Library Award by the Crime Writers' Association. He lives in Wales with his wife and a rain-phobic dog.
Contemporary Fantasy
D.C. Farmer
D.C. Farmer was born in the Swansea Valley under circumstances that remain, to this day, entirely unremarkable. He spent a career in medicine, during which he developed an impressive ability to keep a straight face — a skill that has proved equally useful in writing urban fantasy.
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He is the author of the Hipposync Archives, a series of novels exploring what happens when the mythological infrastructure underpinning British civilisation begins to malfunction. Readers familiar with British civilisation will appreciate that this is not always easy to detect.
The books have been described as original, genre-defying, and difficult to explain at dinner parties — all of which D.C. Farmer takes as high praise. He is aware that urban fantasy occupies an awkward shelf in most bookshops, and has made his peace with it.
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He shares a postcode, a writing desk, and a frankly implausible number of biographical details with crime writer Rhys Dylan. Both authors have been asked about this. Neither has given a satisfactory answer. He lives in Wales, where the weather provides daily motivation to stay indoors and make things up.
