owdy! Thanks for dropping by the website of science fiction and fantasy writer Jayme Lynn Blaschke. Apologies for the spartan accomodations. My old ISP discontinued its residential plan, and the vast majority of my old site hasn't made the migration over. If you'll indulge me, I hope to have an all-new website ready to launch here in a month or so. In the meantime, I invite you to wander over to my Gibberish blog, where I post regularly about various goings-on in my life, or simply drop me an email. It's not a bother, really. I like it when people feign interest.
I'm a writer. Have been for a long time, and will likely be one for a long time to come. My background is in journalism, and for seven years I worked at the Temple Daily Telegram as a sports writer, covering everything from the Central Texas Stampede of the Western Professional Hockey League, to Big 12 college football, to Texas high school sports (lots of high school sports). In there somewhere I worked some hard news beats as well, interviewing such notable figures as Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush--though not at the same time. After leaving the Telegram, I did time in the public affairs department of a large regional hospital for a few years, got back into newspapers, and am now gainfully employed in the News Service office at Texas State University which really is a great place to work.
My real passion, though, apart from my lovely wife Lisa, daughters Calista, Keela and son Orion, is my fiction writing. I've been writing science fiction and fantasy stories for more than a decade now, and am attracting more and more attention from within the field. I finished my first epic fantasy novel when I was a mere 17 years old, and that work is now safely locked up deep within a Colorado mountain complex (along with the last remaining live cultures of the smallpox virus) for the good of all mankind. I've focused mainly on short fiction since then, producing stories that cover all the speculative sub-genres from high fantasy and urban fantasy to space opera. Currently, I'm hard at work on a new fantasy novel titled Wetsilver, of which I chronicle my ongoing progress on the Wetsilver blog. I'm an active member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, vote occasionally for the Nebula Awards, and serve as the Director of Media Relations for that organization as well as the Ringmaster for the official SFWA Net Ring. From December 2002 through January 2006 I was fiction editor of RevolutionSF, where I published such writers as Gene Wolfe, Lisa Tuttle and Joe R. Lansdale. A collected volume of my science fiction and comics interviews titled Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak is now available from the University of Nebraska Press. I also provide the odd book review, music review or interview every so often (or not, as the case may be) to The SF Site, The Green Man Review and The Unofficial Green Arrow Shrine. Check them out!
Icky legal stuff: The contents of these pages are the property of Jayme Lynn Blaschke. What you find here may be downloaded for personal use only. Printouts may not be distributed or placed in commercial net services without our permission, and none of the text may be altered, published or sold for any reason. Yeah, I know. Pretty much a no-brainer, but you just have to spell it out sometimes. Thanks.
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Most recent update: January 31, 2007