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Today, Tamara Kaye Sellman tells me how her vivid imagination is augmented by her dream life and how both inspire her writing.

Cul de Sac stories by Tamara Kaye Sellman
Cul de Sac stories by Tamara Kaye Sellman

It’s funny that I should sit down intending to write to you about how my dream life serves such an active part in my writer’s toolkit today. I just found out a flash fiction of mine has been accepted for fall publication. I based this story on real-world events related to a prescient dream I had as a teenager.

That dream occurred on the night of the day of the Jonestown Massacre. This was November 1978, back in the days before the Internet, when people still read newspapers and watched day-old TV news. There was no way for me to know this had happened until the following morning, when I sat down for Sunday breakfast. My family spent those mornings wrapped up in the Sunday Oregonian, which had only just begun to sport four-color ink on the front page, and only on Sundays.

That particular Sunday, the pictures of the Jonestown Massacre screamed from both above and below the fold of the front page. When I saw those pictures, and read the story, I threw up.

This wasn’t necessarily unusual for me; my parents chain smoked. Between the smell of cigarettes, pancakes, Mrs. Butterworth’s, rank coffee, and burnt bacon, I had reason enough to feel queasy like any other Sunday.

So I used that as my excuse for going back to bed because what could I do with this information? Share it? In 1978, I was a slight girl in a boy-heavy family; my thoughts and feelings were routinely rejected. I was always told I was too sensitive, I needed a thicker skin, I had a vivid imagination that might get me into trouble.

Fast forward a couple decades later. My toddler daughter, in her car seat, keeps saying something about a house we’ve just driven past on our way to the grocery store. It makes no sense to me then. Not until I read the news in the paper about a horrible crime committed at the very same house. And then what she told me made perfect sense: she basically knew where the evidence was. (Suffice it to say, F*ck yes, I believed her.)

Fast forward another 25 years, and the story I wrote, “Early Childhood Education,” will appear in the Lowestoft Chronicle this fall. It’s my third? fourth? fifth? rendering of this story. I’ve written it as a straight up personal essay, as a script for a storytelling festival, as a prose poem, as a full-fledged short story, and now, as a flash fiction. What’s been my problem? Figuring out how such a story might end.

No version ever fit until this last one. I ran it by my critique group; it seemed to work well enough, so  I went fishing (that’s what I call submitting). And now my true story wrapped up in flashy packaging will see the light of day.

My dream life isn’t vivid in this way very often, by the way. Rarely prescient. I’ve had a few dreams that predicted moments that came true, none of them significant. Several involved loved ones recently passed, as if they were saying au revoir.

Now, most of my dreams come as little movies with story arcs. Sometimes I find myself in serial landscapes: dreamscapes I return to again and again, to experience different, fully formed adventures.

I chalk all this up to a few things. First, it’s probably just genetics: my dad and his brother had rich dream lives also, so I think it’s just something I

Cul de Sac Stories blurb
Cul de Sac Stories

inherited. Second, because I’ve written and told stories my whole life, my brain naturally ascribes meaning as it happens in the events that unfold in my dreams. Third, I’m also a lucid dreamer, which perhaps throws fresh dimension into things, though I try not to mess with the stories that unfold.

And another thing. I’m looking at my new dark speculative collection coming out in July 2024 from Aqueduct Press: Cul de Sac Stories. Checking out the TOC, I’d not noticed until well after the book had gone to press those six of the eight stories in there either originated through dream narratives, or they actually use dreams and nightmares as plot devices.

All I’m saying is this: those nightly adventures you sometimes remember, sometimes can’t? That’s rich material, right there. Nurture it, even if it scares you. Even if nobody believes you. There’s a goldmine in there.

Tamara Kaye Sellman is author of Cul de Sac Stories (2024; Aqueduct Press), the experimental novelette, Trust Fall (2024; MCR Media), and Intention Tremor: A Hybrid Collection (2021; MoonPath Press).  She is the other half of the BENEATH THE RAIN SHADOW podcast with Clay Vermulm. Her collaborative horror collection with author Clay Vermulm, Rain Shadows, will be released in 2025. Other recent or forthcoming appearances include Lowestoft Chronicle, Lurking (from the Dark Decades Anthology Series), Quibble, Cirque, Turtle Island Quarterly, Verse Daily, MS Focus, and the WRPN Womens International Film Festival (her debut poetry film, LOOK UP, earned bronze laurels there in 2024). Tamara’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and earned other awards. She is currently at work on two novels (magical realist cli-fi and post-apocalypse), two poetry chapbooks (Pacific Northwest gothic and tributes to esoterica), a New Weird flash fiction collection, an inspirational essay collection titled RootLeaf Stories, and more experimental poetry films.

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Gen Con is always an exciting time. This year was no exception. Between the panels, workshops, and business meetings, there is no way I could summarize everything that happened. However, my “To Follow-up On” list is about a mile long. So many good memories. Among them may be the following…

  1. Declined an offer from Marie Bilodeau to steal a chair for me.
  2. Had a lovely 10 second interaction with the DnD Shorts guy in the Dispel Dice mosh pit of a line.
  3. Discovered that Phil Lee IS the power behind the throne of Cat Labs.
  4. Already have business meetings scheduled for Gen Con 2025.
  5. Plotted shenanigans for WorldCon 2025 in Seattle.
  6. Signed an editor-publisher anthology contract for something new and exciting.
  7. Caused one of my planes home to need to be rebooted to fix something (darn QA effect aura).
  8. Announced an open call to a new magazine I am editing.
  9. Made Mike Stackpole blush and shocked Brandon O’Brien.
  10. Upheld the pact and bought dice.
Leeloo, a small singapura cat with fawn colored coat, peeks out of a dark brown cat house with a skeptical look on its face.
“You’re not the momma.”

The kitties took last night to be mad and today they are loving, needy, and shedding all over me. There is nothing like travel to make you appreciate what you have at home.

Mena, a medium sized highlander short hair with a cream colored coat, a bobbed tail, and curled ears looks at the picture-taker with a quizzical expression on her face. She stands on a wooden floor next to a white wall.
“Where’s Mom?”

My next convention is Can-Con where I will be an Editor Guest of Honor. This will be my first time in Ottawa, Canada.

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I will be spending most of my time in the Gen Con Writers Symposium area in the Downtown Marriott. You can catch me between panels or workshops. Friday and Saturday, I will be signing books in the Dealers Room at Cat Labs booth (1611).

Also, The Husband and I came home from Origins Game Fair with Covid. I am over it, though, my brain is still not working as fast as normal. The Husband is over it, but Covid aggravated his asthma something fierce. He’s still coughing because of it. That said, we both will be masking all Gen Con except in specific circumstances. I’m also limiting myself to fist-bumps and elbow-bumps in greeting. Still, come say hello!

 

  • Thursday, 1-2pm, Marriott: Marriott Ballroom 4, Getting into Writing BattleTech and Shadowrun Fiction
  • Thursday, 4-5pm, Marriott: Atlanta, Industry Survival Guide: Layoffs, Dry Spells, and Flops
  • Thursday, 6-9pm, ICC: Wabash Ballroom 1, Meet the Authors (I will be selling books here as well as signing them!)
  • Friday, 11am-12pm, Exhibit Hall, Catalyst Labs Booth 1611, Signing with Cat Lab Authors
  • Friday, 1-2pm, Marriott Ballroom 3, New Books! New Games! New Love! (Session F)
  • Friday, 2-3pm, Marriott: Marriott Ballroom 1, Project Management for Creatives (Workshop)
  • Friday, 5-7pm, Marriott: Marriott: Boston, The Art of the Pitch (Workshop)
  • Saturday, 1-2pm, Marriott: Marriott: Boston, Seven Steps to Better Self-Editing (Workshop)
  • Saturday, 3-4pm, Marriott: Marriott Boston, How to Write for the Ear (Moderating)
  • Saturday, 4-5pm, Exhibit Hall, Catalyst Labs Booth 1611, Signing with Cat Lab Authors
  • Sunday, 10-11am, Marriott: Marriott Ballroom 3, Reading and Writing in a Neurodiverse Universe

 

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Awards: This year, I have two Scribe Award nominations. The first is for short story: Valdemar – “Needs Must When Evil Bides.” The second is for Shadowrun: Auditions, the first novel in The Mosaic Run duology. I am particularly chuffed about the short story nom. It’s been a donkey’s age since that’s happened. Also, it’s always a thrill to be mentioned in Locus magazine.

GoFundMe: One Booth to Record Them All. Pretty Please. Tren is on tap to record the Shadowrun: Elfin Black audiobook. Help him get to it faster! (Also, help his sleep schedule and his health and to future proof his career.)

MailerLite: I have a new newsletter group that I will be transitioning to over the next few months. You can check it out directly from my new website (look at the top of this page). Get a free story when you sign up!

Publication: Raven Oak and I have a co-written story in the Gen Con anthology, Interdimensions. It is called “Eye of the Beholder.” I really like this story. It’s crime story with a hint of magical realism.

Publication: My fourth Shadowrun novel, Shadowrun: The Mosaic Run, has been released! While it is the sequel to Shadowrun: Auditions, it can be read as a standalone novel.

Leeloo sleeping in the catio.
Leeloo sleeps in the catio.

Support: As always… if you appreciate my work and would like to support me, I love coffee. I am made of caffeine. This is the quickest way to brighten my day.

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I am a duck right now. Smooth and serene on the top and paddling like mad underneath. It’s been a busy six weeks since I blogged—for good reason. It’s that whole you only see 10% of the iceberg thing.

An iceberg show a small portion of it above the waterline and a huge amount of it below the waterline.

First, there was Origins Game Fair. It was a good convention where I was a dealer and a panelist. Plus, I had many meetings where new projects were planned out. It’s one of my favorite things to do—meeting up with my editors and authors face-to-face. Unfortunately, long work conventions are exhausting. Also, we came home with an unwanted guest: Covid.

Despite masking and air purifiers and hand washing/sanitizers, I caught Covid. I’m not sure exactly where or when, but by Sunday evening of the convention, I felt like hell—which means I had to have been contagious for 1-3 days. Be it an errant button press or a handshake and then forgetting to sanitize, or being coughed on (there were a LOT of coughing people at Origins), after four years of diligence, my number was up.

A bunch of covid positive tests over a 3 week period.

I got Paxlovid on Tuesday after the convention, and we were hoping that it had passed the Husband by, but no such luck. By Thursday the 27th, he was sick. He got his Paxlovid on the same day. We had diametrically opposed reactions to Covid. I felt better as of the 2nd day of the meds and started testing negative as soon as the five days of Paxlovid was done. The Husband on the other hand, tested positive for Covid for almost two full weeks after he finished the meds and even had a rebound where he started feeling better, but then got much worse.

“A simple cold” my ass. We spent three full weeks living on separate levels of the house, running the air purifiers, and masking. It was like living with a roommate you barely tolerate. It sucked. Seriously. The Husband’s asthma is still acting up. Needless to say, we will be masked for Gen Con.

Leeloo in the catio. She is a singapura with fawn colored fur. The background is blue skies, green lawn and trees, and red-brown deck. Mena, a highlander lynx, is on the top shelf of the catio. The background is blue skies and green trees.

While we were suffering from Covid, life continued on. We’d contracted with Catio Spaces for a custom catio as our 16th wedding anniversary to us and our kitties. It’s lovely. Big enough for chairs for us to lounge in. Leeloo loves the catio. She demands it be opened in the morning and spends most of the day out there. Mena also likes it, but not like Leeloo. She’ll wander out there every other day or so.

Finally, the main reason there hasn’t been a blog post in six weeks is the fact that I have a brand new website. After 20+ years of hand coding my website with raw HTML, I decided it was time for a change and hired Caro from GoCreate.me, a terrifyingly competent and efficient web developer. Caro is amazing, and you should hire her if you want a new website with all the bells and whistles. There are so many new things to learn!

There’s more to do on the website, but the bulk of the fit and finish is done. Also, if you want to send me a postal letter or donate books to my TARDIS Little Free Library, I have a new PO Box address:

Jennifer Brozek
P.O. Box 121
Bothell, WA 98041

A TARDIS Little Free Library. It is TARDIS blue and books can be seen through the front glass.

So, what to you think? Do you like my new website?

Oh yeah. I’ve been nominated for two Scribe awards! One for Shadowrun: Auditions (YA/MG novel) and one for Valdemar: “Needs Must When Evil Bides” (Short story). I’m particularly pleased with the short story nomination. It’s been forever since one of my shorts has been nominated.

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Today we have one of my favorite people, voice actor Trendane Sparks. He talks about the value of human performance in book narration versus the lack of emotional context of AI “narrators.”

 

Tell Me - Trendane Sparks.

 

When you’re watching someone perform live music, sometimes they mess up. They miss notes or they forget lyrics and they have to recover with, hopefully, some measure of grace. Maybe with laughter. But it is those imperfections which make a performance really memorable, really endearing. While studio versions have been “perfected” with adjustments to pitch or tempo or whatever, it loses some of that aliveness and starts to feel very mechanical.

I guess I’d say that’s what makes voice acting the most enjoyable for me, including narration. The story contains the lines, the setting, the stage direction. All of it. And the ‘imperfections’ may not be written in the text at all, but are clearly implied by it. A character who is nervous or afraid might stammer, one who is crying may sniff or cough as they choke up. Voices may crack, breath may be ragged, huffing in frustration, or the gurgling in the throat as someone is dying. Even if they aren’t specifically noted in the letter of the story, they can be inferred from the context of the scene and they add a tremendous amount of character to the…well…characters.

Some might say that such thinking only applies to the characters. And, in many cases they would be correct. But when one of the characters is also the narrative voice, I feel like it works. Maybe not open sobbing or physically emotive stuff like that. But if they are happy, afraid, sad or any of that stuff, it should be detectable, even in their internal voice. In a scene like a chase or other, high tension moment, the pace should be faster. Not quite too fast for the listener to keep up with, but fast enough that they have to focus more so as not to miss anything.

There are some who feel that we should not deviate in any way from the words on the page; that the author’s words are sacrosanct. And I’m not saying that we should change them, per se. But as we bring the work into a new medium, some elements can be used to make the work even better. That’s why I feel it is so important to not simply read the text, but to perform the story as any actor worth their salt would.

When it comes right down to it, we are actors. As such, it is our job to bring our audience along on a compelling and fulfilling emotional journey. We have to make them feel, or at least relate to, joy, sadness, fear, anger and all the other emotions in a story. It is the ‘imperfections’, the deviations from or additions to the exact text on the page, which elevate our work from that of AI or a text-to-speech engine to the true human expression we call Art.


Trendane Sparks. Born in Texas when Unleaded gas was ‘fancy’ and still under 25¢ per gallon, Tren eventually wound up in California where he crawled through fiberglass insulation to run CAT-5 cable, did tech support for Netcom, had several jobs on a PBS children’s show, worked as a freelance mascot performer and did videogame QA. Then he became a voice actor and life became fun again! Now you can hear his voice in games, animations, and audiobooks. Most commonly, he narrates Catalyst Game Labs in the BattleTech and Shadowrun franchises as well as for the DrabbleCast, Escape Pod, and PseudoPod podcasts.

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Life is exciting and busy. After decades of hand-coding my website, I’ve hired a terrifyingly competent and efficient dev to revamp my website from the ground up. That means I’m not exactly certain when the website will be under construction as the dev works. Thus, I’m putting the blog on hiatus (excluding Tell Me blog posts) until things have been rebuilt and moved around. In the meantime, convention/event season has begun!

Local Event: Brick and Mortar Books Indie Author Night! Monday June 3rd, 6:00PM – 8:00PM, Redmond Town Center. I will be signing from 6:25-6:55 and then hanging out afterwards.

Interview: May 2024: HWA Seattle Chapter Member Interview with Aigner Loren Wilson: Jennifer Brozek.

Convention: Origins Game Fair (June). I will be in the Authors Alcove and on panels.

Convention: The Gen Con Writers Symposium schedule is up (August). I have three workshops and a bunch of panels this year. Sign up for my workshops sooner rather than later. They tend to sell out.

Convention: Can-Con (November). I will be the Editor GoH for Can-Con in Ottawa! I’m very excited about this one. I’ve never been to Ottawa.

Bookfair: Written in the Northwest (November). I will be at this new bookfair with a bunch of very cool local authors, just in time for the holiday season.

Kickstarter: Cthulhu FhCon anthology. I have a story in Cthulhu FhCon with (one of two) tuckerizations available (that means you give me a name to put in the story). FTR, I was at the convention where the idea of this anthology was born. Seriously, the smell was extraordinary…

Support: As always… if you appreciate my work and would like to support me, I love coffee. I am made of caffeine. This is the quickest way to brighten my day.

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Today, Cat Rambo talks about a stellar opportunity (sorry, not sorry); one that I would be partaking in if it weren’t for the small problem of me being in Canada at the time of the next Wayward Wormhole workshop. In all cases, I really want to experience a Dark Sky reserve at least once in my life.

Last year while in the inaugural Wayward Wormhole workshop, which took place in a castle in Spain, we used a telescope a lot, particularly to look at the moon as well as the surrounding mountaintops. This year, the skies will be even more telescope-worthy in our latest location.

One reason (among the many) I’m excited about this year’s Wayward Wormhole workshops (one for novels, one for short stories) happening in New Mexico, is that the area is part of a New Mexico Dark Skies reserve, where people are encouraged to use flashlights rather than larger lights. The elevation plus clear skies plus an absence of light means that the star-watching will be exceptional. (If you’d like to know more about the International Dark Sky Places program, here’s some details: https://darksky.org/what-we-do/international-dark-sky-places/)

* The succession of celestial events starts with a new moon on November 1. Surely a good omen for the Wormholers arriving to attend the novel workshop with Don Maass and C.C. Finlay.

  • November 4-5 is the South Taurid meteor shower. A minor shower, so maybe 5-10 per hour, but always fun to try to spot one. The North Taurids will peak a week or so later on November 12. Both are known for fireballs – extremely bright meteors and are not produced by a single comet but a group of asteroids called the Encke Complex.
  • November 15 is a Supermoon, and also the Beaver Moon, aka the Frosty Moon and the Dark Moon. We’ll be changing over from the novel workshop to the short story one, taught by Minister Faust and Arley Sorg.
  • November 17 Uranus will be its closest to Earth, and fully visible as the Earth transits in front of it.
  • November 17-18 is also another meteor shower, this time the Leonids, a slightly larger shower than the Taurids, with perhaps 10-15 meteors per hour at their peak. They will be competing with a waning gibbous (between half and full) moon that will make them harder to see. Their parent comet is Comet Tempel-Tuttle (named after its discoverers).

I know we will definitely get some star watching in, and a little sight-seeing as well, since Tombstone’s in driving distance. And imagine what kind of words one can write under a sky so bright you can see the Milky Way in all its glory! I can hardly wait.

If you’re curious about the workshop, the deadline for applying for the short story workshop is at the end of this month! Find more details here: https://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/the-wayward-wormhole-new-mexico-2024/

Cat Rambo’s 300+ fiction publications include stories in Asimov’sClarkesworld Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. In 2020 they won the Nebula Award for fantasy novelette Carpe Glitter. They are a former two-term President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Their most recent works are space opera Devil’s Gun (Tor Macmillan, 2023) and anthology The Reinvented Detective (Arc Manor, 2023),  co-edited with Jennifer Brozek.

For more about Cat, as well as links to fiction and popular online school, The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers, see their website. 

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This week is all about the edits. I have short story edits (multiple) and novel edits to get through. Also, I have two events coming up very soon. One is local. One is virtual. Both will be a lot of fun.

Local Event: Spring Scares: A Celebration of Horror with the HWA Seattle Chapter at Barnes & Noble on 11 May, 12-4pm.

Virtual Event: Can-Con – Level Up: The Business of Writing Virtual Workshops. Six amazing speakers to give you powerful workshops to help you level up, no matter where you are in your career! Starts May 14th.

Convention: Origins Game Fair. I will be in the Authors Alcove and on panels. That means I’ll have books to buy and to sign as well as seeing everyone.

Convention: The Gen Con Writers Symposium schedule is up. I have three workshops and a bunch of panels this year. Sign up/Wishlist now.

Shoutout: Azeem AKA Blackpurist on Instagram. This was something I needed to hear so damn bad when I first heard it. Now I use it as motivation. “Make them hate you.” #villainmonologue

Shoutout: Emma Shelford has a kickstarter campaign for her Forest Fae Complete Trilogy 10th Anniversary Hardcovers. Step through a portal into Celtic myth with faerie queens, magic realms, a mysterious magician, and a mortal discovering her powers.

Support: As always… if you appreciate my work and would like to support me, I love coffee. I am made of caffeine. This is the quickest way to brighten my day.

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Today J.W. Donley talks about how limits can give you the freedom you need to write. I know, personally, that I work better within guide rails. When I have too many options, I get stuck trying to create my own limitations.

Writer’s block sucks. As a writer, there is nothing more stressful than staring at the blank page and then the sense of self defeat when the page is still blank after hours and hours of mental strain.

Some writers claim that writer’s block does not exist. And I get that sentiment. You can always write something. Just start putting down pointless words until something useful pops out. While this is great to get going at times, I don’t find that sort of writing to be the most helpful. It usually leaves me with more of a mess than workable prose. But, if that’s your vibe, you do you.

And if you feel the same way or would like to explore another option, I have a different idea when it comes to the blank page.

What intimidates me most is the absolute scope of what I could write. So many options that I just shut down as my brain bounces from idea to idea without developing any of them enough to really get ink to paper.

How do you control your brain and help direct it down a workable path?

What works best for me is the limitation of scope.

I love limitations when it comes to starting a writing project. They help to scale down the universe to something manageable. Or at least manageable enough to squeeze out a story.

I’ve used prompts since the very beginning of my writing endeavors, but I really didn’t take them seriously until after I participated in the NYC Midnight Short Story contest a couple years back. The way their contest works is they assign you a random character, genre, and object each from a small list. For instance, I think I got a security guard with a stapler in a heist story. I had never written a heist story before, but after a quick bit of research I picked up the major tropes and then I was off to the races. The story ended up being my first professional sale. I’m still in slight shock that this story was my first pro sale. What made this story work is that I was able to limit the scope of possibilities enough to quiet my brain and get down a full story idea in a short amount of time.

Some might worry that limitations like this can water down your own creative voice, but I do not support that at all. My story was very much a J.W. Donley story after it was finished. It was of course a horror story in the end, but it was also still a heist. And I didn’t end up using a stapler, but I did put in a typewriter. It just worked! It was much shorter than what I usually end up with, and thus easier to find a market for.

Now, after you have that first draft and have a full story, you can let go of the limitations if you wish. Feel free to mold the story in any direction, let the universe speak to you and cajole new spice into the prose. But, do not let go of the reins of rules and limitations until you have that complete idea finished.

So, the next time you get stuck, find some way to limit your choices. Be it tarot cards to toy with your subconscious, randomized Wikipedia articles, or a good book of writing prompts, find something that works for you.

J.W. Donley—HWA and HOWL Society member—lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest where the Cascade Mountains meet the Salish Sea. J.W. is the author of the novelette Cats of the Pacific Northwest and the brand new 100 Unusual Prompts for Writers of Horror, Weird, and Bizarro Fiction with contributions from John Langan, Carlton Mellick III, Shane Hawk, and many more. His short stories have appeared in anthologies from Dim Shores, HOWL Society Press, PIT, Chuckanut Editions, and on Creepy, a Horror Podcast.

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Meet Jennifer Brozek

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her YA tie-in novels, BattleTech: The Nellus Academy Incident and Shadowrun: Auditions, have both won Scribe Awards. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Hugo Award. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, Well World, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a full-time freelance author and editor for over seventeen years, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to teach writing classes and volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer’s worlds at jenniferbrozek.com or her social media accounts on LinkTree.

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