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===''Fighting Fantasy''=== In 1982, Jackson and Livingstone co-wrote ''[[The Warlock of Firetop Mountain]]'', the first book in the ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' series,<ref name="HG">{{Cite book | contribution=[[Amun-Re (board game)|Amun-Re]] | title=Hobby Games: The 100 Best | last=Livingstone | first=Ian | title-link=Hobby Games: The 100 Best | editor-last=Lowder | editor-first=James | editor-link=James Lowder | publisher=[[Green Ronin Publishing]] | year=2007 | pages=9β12 | isbn=978-1-932442-96-0}}</ref> but following an instruction from publishers [[Penguin books|Penguin]] to write more books "as quickly as possible" the pair wrote subsequent books separately.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} The series had sold over 18 million copies as of 2017,<ref name=port>{{cite web |url=https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/Fighting-Fantasy-The-Port-of-Peril-Ian-Livingstone-9781407181295 |title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril |publisher=Scholastic Ltd |website=Scholastic.co.uk |access-date=11 January 2018}}</ref> with Livingstone's ''[[Deathtrap Dungeon]]'' selling over 350,000 copies in its first year alone.<ref name="yath1">{{Cite book | title=You Are The Hero | last=Green | first=Jonathan | publisher=Snow Books | year=2014 | page=33 | isbn=978-1-909679-38-2}}</ref> Livingstone wrote another twelve ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks, including ''[[The Forest of Doom]]'', ''[[City of Thieves (gamebook)|City of Thieves]]'' and ''[[Caverns of the Snow Witch]]'' before marking the 30th anniversary of ''The Warlock of Firetop Mountain'' with a new gamebook, ''Blood of the Zombies'', in 2012,<ref>Ian Livingstone, [https://twitter.com/ian_livingstone/status/125089525574795264 Twitter], 14 October 2011</ref> and with ''The Port of Peril'' in 2017 for the 35th anniversary.<ref name="port"/>
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