About the Author

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.

Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, bookkeeper at a small publishing house, freelance journalist and photographer, accounting assistant and costume maker. For four years, she worked Master Control in a local Chicago television station, WFBN (WGBO), serving the last year as Technical Operations Manager.

Since 1987 she has published over 45 books and more than 150 short stories. Among the novels Jody has written are her epic fantasy series, The Dreamland, beginning with Waking in Dreamland, five contemporary humorous fantasies, Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher Mythology (the three collected as Applied Mythology), Advanced Mythology, The Magic Touch, and the Taylor’s Ark series, medical science (shortly to be republished by WordFire Press). Strong Arm Tactics, a humorous military science fiction novel, the first of The Wolfe Pack series. Jody also wrote The Dragonlover’s Guide to Pern, a non-fiction-style guide to the world of internationally best-selling author Anne McCaffrey’s popular world, and co-authored the Visual Guide to Xanth with best-selling fantasy author Piers Anthony. She also collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on four science fiction novels, The Death of Sleep, Crisis On Doona, Treaty at Doona and The Ship Who Won, and wrote a solo sequel to The Ship Who Won: The Ship Errant. Jody, and edited an anthology of humorous stories about mothers in science fiction, fantasy, myth and legend, entitled Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear!, as well as a science fiction anthology co-edited with Dr. Mike Brotherton, Launch Pad. She wrote eight books with the late Robert Lynn Asprin, License Invoked, a contemporary fantasy set in New Orleans, and seven set in Asprin’s Myth Adventures universe. Since Asprin’s passing, she has continued writing the Myth books as well as his Dragons series, Myth-Quoted, Dragons Deal and Dragons Run (Ace Books). Her newest series is the Lord Thomas Kinago books, beginning with View from the Imperium and Fortunes of the Imperium (Baen Books).

Her newest books are Rhythm of the Imperium; an e-collection of cat stories, Cats Triumphant (Event Horizon); the next Myth-Adventures novel, Myth-Fits; her novella in the second in the Clan of the Claw series, Tooth and Claw; and Wishing on a Star, a Stellar Guild collaboration (Arc Manor Press).

Upcoming are the next Myth-Adventures novel, Myth-Fits, her novella in the second in the Clan of the Claw series, Tooth and Claw, and Wishing on a Star, a Stellar Guild collaboration (Arc Manor Press).

Over the last twenty-some years, Jody has taught in numerous writing workshops and participated on hundreds of panels covering the subjects of writing and publishing at science-fiction conventions. She speaks at schools and libraries. In 2007 she taught fantasy writing at Columbia College Chicago. She also runs the two-day writers workshop at DragonCon.

Jody lives in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, with her husband Bill Fawcett, a writer, game designer, military historian and book packager, and a black cat, Jeremy. Jody and Bill are the fiction reviewers for Galaxy’s Edge Magazine. Jody is on the net at jodylynnnye.com and mythadventures.net, on Facebook as Jody Lynn Nye, and Twitter @JodyLynnNye.