Jennifer Brozek

Jennifer Brozek (born December 9, 1970) is an American freelance author, game design writer, editor, and small press publisher.[1]

Jennifer Brozek
Brozek at Crypticon, May 2015
BornJennifer Lynn Brozek
(1970-12-09) December 9, 1970
Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska, United States
OccupationFreelance writer
NationalityAmerican
Period2004–present
GenreFantasy, role-playing game, horror, science fiction
Website
www.jenniferbrozek.com

Career

Before becoming a full-time writer, Brozek was a software QA engineer working on a wide range of projects, including video games.[2][3] Brozek co-chaired one of the first Babylon 5 science fiction conventions (StarQuest '95), was the basis for a main character in the webcomic Casey and Andy by Andy Weir, named Jenn Brozek, who is listed as a 200-point GURPS character in the role-playing game GURPS Casey and Andy.[4][5]

Brozek began her professional writing career in 2004. She was the editor-in-chief of the semiprozine, The Edge of Propinquity,[6] a webzine that published for six years, and worked as an assistant editor, sounding board and convention volunteer for the Apex Book Company.[7] Brozek is now the creative director of Apocalypse Ink Productions and a member of International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (IAMTW), the Horror Writers Association, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). She served as SFWA Director-at-Large from 2015 to 2017.[8]

Jennifer's work in fiction and editing has won and been nominated for several awards such as the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, ENnie, Origin Awards, and Hugo.

Books

Fiction

2019

  • Makeda Red Shadowrun Novel - Catalyst Game Labs, July 2019
  • BattleTech: Iron Dawn, Rogue Academy #1 - Catalyst Game Labs, April 2019
  • A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods(editor) - Pulse Publishing, April 2019


2018

  • To Fight the Black Wind, Arkham Horror novella - Fantasy Flight Games, April 2018
  • A is for Apex, ABC book for your little mad scientist - Apocalypse Ink Productions, August 2018
  • The Prince of Artemis V, All-ages science-fantasy comic book - Apocalypse Ink Productions, February 2018

2017

  • Five Minute Stories, flash fiction collection - Apocalypse Ink Productions, September 2017

2016

  • The Last Days of Salton Academy, Novel - Ragnarok Productions October 2016
  • Colonial Gothic: Lost Tales collection - Rogue Games - April 2016
  • Karen Wilson Chronicles - omnibus of the Karen Wilson Chronicles Series - Apocalypse Ink Productions - March 2016
  • Never Let Me Omnibus of the Melissa Allen series - Permuted Press January 2016

2015

  • Never Let Me Die Book 3 of the Melissa Allen Series - Permuted Press, December 2015
  • Never Let me Leave Book 2 of the Melissa Allen Series - Permuted Press, November 2015
  • Chimera Incarnate: Book Four of the Karen Wilson Chronicles, novel - Apocalypse Ink Productions, March 2015
  • DocWagon 19, Shadowrun novella - Catalyst Game Labs, March 2015
  • Never Let Me Sleep, Book One of the Melissa Allen series, Young adult SF-thriller novel - Permuted Press, TBA 2015
  • The Last Days of Salton Academy Ragnarok Publications, TBA

2014

  • The Nellus Academy Incident, YA Battletech novel - Catalyst Game Labs, January 2014
  • Keystones: Book Three of the Karen Wilson Chronicles, novel - Apocalypse Ink Productions, April 2014

2013

  • Children of Anu: Book Two of the Karen Wilson Chronicles, mosaic novel - Apocalypse Ink Productions, June 2013

2012

  • The Lady of Seeking in the City of Waiting, Shadeside novella - Dark Quest Books, February 2012
  • Caller Unknown: Book One of the Karen Wilson Chronicles , mosaic novel - Apocalypse Ink Productions, November 2012

2011

  • Shanghai Vampocalypse hard copy - Savage Mojo, Author, August 2011

2010

  • In a Gilded Light: 105 Tales of the Macabre, Dark Quest Books, 2010[9]

Nonfiction
  • The Little Finance Book That Could, Book Shaker, 2010 ISBN 1-907498-33-8
  • Industry Talk: An Insider's Look at Writing RPGs and Editing Anthologies, Apocalypse Ink Productions, 2012 ISBN 0985532319

Awards and Nominations

2017

  • The Last Days of Salton Academy - finalist for the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel.[10]

2016

  • Never Let Me Sleep - finalist for the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel.[11]
  • "To Lose the Stars" - 1st runner up (2nd place) in the 2016 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award Contest.[12]

2015

  • The Nellus Academy Incident - Winner of the Scribe Award for Best YA Tie-in Novel.[13]
  • "Written in the Wind" - Nominated for Scribe Award for the Best Tie-in Short Story.[14]
  • Nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form.[15]

2009

  • Grants Pass, anthology - Morrigan Books, Concept and co-editor, August, 2009 Australia Shadows Award for best editing winner with Amanda Pillar, 2009[16]
gollark: I expect quantum stuff would probably just be special-purpose hardware running specific tasks while coordinated by classical computers.
gollark: There is Shor's algorithm, which lets you factor primes much faster or something.
gollark: Come to think of it, we could probably put a lot of computing hardware into the solar power stuff, which presumably has a lot of power and some cooling.
gollark: The main constraints for high-performance computer stuff *now* are heat and power, or I guess sometimes networking between nodes.
gollark: Also, for random real-world background, there are only two companies making (high-performance, actually widely used) CPUs: Intel and AMD, and two making GPUs: AMD and Nvidia. Other stuff (flash storage, mainboards, RAM, whatever else) is made by many more manufacturers. Alienware and whatnot basically just buy parts from them, possibly design their own cases (and mainboards for laptops, to some extent), and add margin.

References
  1. "Masters of Horror Anthology – author interview Jennifer Brozek | The ShadowCast Blog". Shadowcastblog.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  2. "Jennifer Brozek Video Game Credits and Biography". MobyGames. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  3. "The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions". Answers. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  4. "Casey and Andy". Galactanet.com. 2008-08-25. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  5. "Warehouse 23 - GURPS Casey & Andy". E23.sjgames.com. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  6. Archived October 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Interview – Jennifer Brozek". Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
  8. "Jennifer Brozek Archives". SFWA. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  9. "Jennifer Brozek Collection Signed with Dark Quest Books". Archived from the original on July 28, 2009. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20180226105037/http://horror.org/2016-bram-stoker-awards-final-ballot/
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20170823165742/http://horror.org/2015-bram-stoker-award-winners/
  12. https://www.baen.com/contest-jbmssa
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-07-06. Retrieved 2016-07-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-07-06. Retrieved 2016-07-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-27. Retrieved 2016-06-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-11. Retrieved 2010-04-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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