Jay Lake
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born
June 06, 1964
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
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October 2009
about this author
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on multiple writing and editing projects. His 2007 book Mainspring received a starred review in Booklist. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Jay can be reached through his Web site at www.jlake.com
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Mainspring by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.11 — 185 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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Green by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.08 — 87 ratings — published 2009 |
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Escapement by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.41 — 44 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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Trial of Flowers by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.44 — 36 ratings — published 2006 |
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Rocket Science by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.21 — 14 ratings — published 2005 |
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Dogs In The Moonlight by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2000 2 editions |
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All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2004 |
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Madness of Flowers by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2008 |
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TEL: Stories by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005 |
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Pinion by Jay Lake (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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"The fanged shadows boiled out behind them, howling for blood, their voices creaking with the sound of snapping bones. The fallen of Hethor's own party seemed to be swept up in the pursuit, dead correct people on their trail, keening, crying, blaming. Rivers of red flowed rapidly across the stone dock in the twilight, slippery sticky blood overtaking their flight to make them trip and slide headfirst into stone bollards or pitch screaming into the sea."
— Jay Lake (Mainspring)
— Jay Lake (Mainspring)
"Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do."
— Jay Lake
— Jay Lake
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