In which our collaborate novel Our Lady of the Islands, written by me and Shannon Page, finds a home

Jade par Jay Lake - A French review of the French translation of my book Green. Some complaints, but I interpret the Google Translate version as generally positive.

Textopornographie: France creates its own word for 'sexting' - Of course they did ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce that this past week editor Gardner Dozois acquired my novella "Rock of Ages" for Year's Best Science Fiction 31. The piece original appeared in METAtropolis: Green Space, published by Audible.com and edited by Ken Scholes and myself. It follows on my stories in the first two volumes, and intertwines with Ken's stories from ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce that editor Beth Meacham of Tor Books has acquired my collection Last Plane to Heaven, via my agent Jennifer Jackson. Given the state of my health, this will almost certainly be my last trade collection of short fiction ( Read more... )

JayFest

JayFest is tonight at Powell's Cedar Hills. Some of the folks arriving today are staying over for JayCon, including J.A. Pitts and ( Read more... )

Apocalypse Ink Productions has bought a book from me on writing process. This is an edited summation of my various process posts from my blog over the years, with some additional new material from me.

My steampunk short story "Grindstone" has been accepted for Airships and Automatons, ed. Charles P. Zaglanis, from White Cat Publications. This is a ( Read more... )

Jay Lake’s Process of Writing Non-Fiction Book Bought

Popular Atomics: Periodic Table Is New Touchstone of Geek Chic - Chemical Elements Are All the Rage; 'Breaking Bad' and Daniel Radcliffe Attest. (Via David Goldman.)

The Great New England Vampire Panic - Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers became convinced that their ( Read more... )

Now Begins Operation Jay - Scott Lynch is generous and slightly scary. Thank you.

My short story "Spendthrift" will be in the forthcoming anthology Coins of Chaos

Surviving the World on steampunks

Top Ten Likely Consequences of Muslim anti-US Embassy Riots

Occupy movement turns 1 year old, its effect still hard to define - Since Occupy Wall ( Read more... )

Last night's open dinner here in Baltimore was great, good fun. There were fifteen of us, including me and Lisa Costello. @psursi took photos ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce that my short story "Spendthrift" has been accepted by editor Jennifer Brozek for the forthcoming anthology Coins of Chaos.

Because, really, who doesn't like WWII Japanese army zombies in New Guinea?

Two stories out the door last night. Both to requesting markets. One I wrote fresh to requirements, "Grindstone" at 5,100 words. The other is an existing piece from new-but-unsold inventory, "Down in the Ship Mines" at 3,000 words. (The second has already been accepted, by SQ Magazine.) Which is terrific, but I really need to up my short fiction ( Read more... )