Dark Quest Editor: Jennifer Brozek

BIO:Jennifer Brozek is a Hugo Award-nominated editor and an award-winning author.
Winner of the Australian Shadows Award for best edited publication, Jennifer has edited fourteen anthologies with more on the way, including Chicks Dig Gaming and Shattered Shields. Author of Apocalypse Girl Dreaming, Industry Talk, In a Gilded Light, and the Karen Wilson Chronicles, she has more than sixty published short stories, and is the Creative Director of Apocalypse Ink Productions.
Jennifer also is a freelance author for numerous RPG companies. Winner of both the Origins and the ENnie awards, her contributions to RPG sourcebooks include Dragonlance, Colonial Gothic, Shadowrun, Serenity, Savage Worlds, and White Wolf SAS. Jennifer is the author of the YA  Battletech novel, The Nellus Academy Incident. She has also written for the AAA MMO Aionand the award winning videogame, Shadowrun Returns.

When she is not writing her heart out, she is gallivanting around the Pacific Northwest in its wonderfully mercurial weather. Jennifer is an active member of SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. Read more about her at www.jenniferbrozek.com or follow her on Twitter at @JenniferBrozek.
1.      Tell us how you came to work with Dark Quest.Originally, Dark Quest Books published my fiction collection, IN A GILDED LIGHT. It was such a good experience that Neal and I talked about me doing anthologies for the company. I agreed. Thus, Beauty Has Her Way and Human Tales was born.
2.      What does your job entail? As an editor, my job is to: Make sure the story fits the theme. The stories fit with each other. That each story is the best it can be. And that the anthology as a whole is cohesive, entertaining, and technically correct.
3.      What do you enjoy most about being an editor? I love finding the exact right story for the project I’m working on and helping make it that much more awesome. I think my favorite part is when that story is acknowledged by my contemporaries.
4.      What have your experiences been like working with the authors?I love my authors, but they are human. I have good experiences and bad ones. Fortunately, more good experiences. The more professional the author, the more they understand the change requests and understand the editor-author relationship is a dialogue.
5.      What is the hardest part of being an editor?Rejections are the hardest. Especially when you want to take a story but you don’t have the word count and/or the budget for it.
6.      And what is the best part?After finding the right story, I love sending out the acceptance letter. It’s that moment of pure joy before both the editor and author need to roll up their sleeves and get to work. Acceptance letters are fun.
7.      Last question; If you could bring any book/movie/TV show to life, what would it be and why?I would love to see Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series come to life and to be able to experience it. Her world of a hidden fae and changeling society in the modern day fascinates me. To have it all be real with be a treat.