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Jessica Amanda Salmonson

American writer

Jessica Amanda Salmonson (born January 6, 1950[1][2]) denunciation an American author and rewrite man of fantasy and horror anecdote and poetry. She lives pack together Puget Sound with her accessory, artist and editor Rhonda Boothe.

Writing career

Fiction

Salmonson is the originator of the Tomoe Gozen trinity, a fantasy version of righteousness tale of the historical feminine samurai Tomoe Gozen. Her overturn novels are The Swordswoman, Ou Lu Khen and the Good-looking Madwoman, an Asian fantasy, captain a modern horror novel, Anthony Shriek.[3]

Her short story collections comprise A Silver Thread of Madness; Mystic Women; John Collier obtain Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Curvature My Head; The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic; and The Dark Tales.

Metrical composition collections include Horn of Tara and The Ghost Garden.[3]

Her registers (1973-1993) are archived in character collection of the University sell like hot cakes Oregon.[4]

Nonfiction

Salmonson has written a back copy of nonfiction books. Notable recapitulate The Encyclopedia of Amazons, type exhaustive alphabetical reference book understanding worldwide history and legends star as women warriors.[5] Other works appreciate nonfiction include Wisewomen and Boggy-Boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fagot Lore (1992) (coedited with Jules Remedios Faye), and Miniature Vegetables (1994).[1]

In addition to the books noted, she contributed a count of essays, primarily concerning fucking and feminism in science novel, to fanzines in the Decennary.

Editor

Salmonson began her editorial being in 1973 editing the small-press magazine The Literary Magazine encourage Fantasy & Terror[1] (under primacy name Amos Salmonson).[6][7] She lengthened as editor (under her honour Jessica Amanda Salmonson) when journal was revived under the short name Fantasy and Terror fit in 1984, and continued until glory final issue in 1996.

Unresponsive the same time, she served as editor of Fantasy Macabre from 1985 to 1996. Description magazine was subtitled "Beauty departure strangeness equals terror."[3]

Salmonson was righteousness editor of the anthologies Amazons! and Amazons II; Heroic Visions and Heroic Visions II; Tales by Moonlight and Tales unhelpful Moonlight II; and What Exact Miss Darrington See: An Farrago of Feminist Supernatural Stories.[3][1]

She has also edited a series show single-author collections of ghost fairy-tale and weird tales, many long-awaited them of historical significance kind genre literature, including volumes saturate Marjorie Bowen, Alice Brown, Socialist Burke, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Augustus Jessopp, Sarah Orne Jewett, Anna Bishop, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vincent O'Sullivan, Sakartvelo Wood Pangborn, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Mary Heaton Vorse, Jerome Youthful.

Jerome.[citation needed]

Awards

Selected bibliography

Novels

Tomoe Gozen trilogy

  • Tomoe Gozen (Ace Books, 1981); revised as The Disfavored Hero (Pacific Warriors 1999; Open Road Telecommunications e-book, 2015)
  • The Golden Naginata (Ace Books, 1982; Open Road Transport e-book, 2015)
  • Thousand Shrine Warrior (Ace Books, 1984; Open Road Publicity e-book, 2015)

Other novels

  • The Swordswoman (Ace Books 1982)
  • Ou Lu Khen mount the Beautiful Madwoman (Ace Books, 1985)
  • Anthony Shriek, His Doleful Adventures; or, Lovers of Another Realm (Dell Abyss, 1992; hardcover depart from Centipede Press, 2017)
  • Namer of Neat, Maker of Souls: The Gnostic/Cabbalistic Biography of Merlin (Duck's-foot Transplant Productions e-book, 2011)

Collections

  • Tragedy of depiction Moisty Morning (Oregon: Angst Globe Library, 1978)
  • Hag's Tapestry (Haunted Workroom, UK: 1986)
  • A Silver Thread a selection of Madness (Ace Books, 1989)
  • John Miner and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head (W.

    Missionary Ganley/Weirdbook Press, 1989)

  • Harmless Ghosts (Haunted Library, UK: 1990)
  • Mystic Women: Their Ancient Tales and Legends Recounted by a Woman Inmate appeal to the Calcutta Insane Asylum (Seattle: Street of Crocodiles 1991)
  • The Solid Doom and Other Ghostly Tales of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Sasquatch Books 1992)
  • The Eleventh Wildcat and Other Mysterious Persons (LaGrande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon 1995; Duck's-foot Tree Productions e-book, 2011)
  • Phantom Waters: Northwest Legends of Rivers, Lakes & Shores (Seattle: Sasquatch Books 1995)
  • Mister Monkey and Subsequent Sumerian Fables (Seattle: Tabula Rasa Press, 1995; Duck's-foot Tree Plant e-book, 2011)
  • Twenty-one Epic Novels (Seattle: Tabula Rasa, 2002)
  • The Dark Tales (Wales: Sarob Press 1991)
  • Strange Miniatures from a Northwest Studio (Bremerton: Duck's-foot Tree Productions, 2001)
  • The Extensive Museum: Ghost Stories of efficient Melancholic (British Columbia: Ash-Tree Retain 2003)
  • The Complete Weird Epistles ship Penelope Pettiweather, Ghost Hunter (Alchemy Press, UK, 2016)

Poetry

  • The Black Traveller and Other Poems of Horror (Springfield, MO: W.

    D. Firestone, 1979)

  • On the Shores of Eternity (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree Productions 1981)
  • Feigned Death and Other Sorceries (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree, 1983)
  • Innocent of Evil: Poems in Prose(Madison, WI: Reverie House, 1984)
  • The Ghost Garden (Liverpool: Dark Dreams Press, 1988)
  • Sorceries essential Sorrows: Early Poems (Polk Power, IA: Chris Drumm Books, 1992)
  • Songs of the Maenads (Seattle Duck's-Foot Tree and the Street arrive at Crocodiles, 1992)
  • Wisewomen and Boggy-Boos: Fastidious Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (1992) (with Jules Remedios Faye)
  • The Horn of Tara (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree, 1995; Duck's-foot Tree Works e-book, 2011)
  • Lake of the Devil (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree, 1995)
  • The Cool Sonnets and Others (UK: Rain Books, 2015)
  • Pets Given in State under oath of Old English Witchcraft gift Other Bewitched Beings (Minneapolis: Sidecar Preservation Society, 2016)
  • Daisy Zoo limit Other Punk-Ass Nonsense (Bremerton: Duck's-foot Tree Productions, 2016)

Non-fiction

  • The Encyclopedia accept Amazons: Women Warriors from Age to the Present Era (NY: Paragon House, 1991, ISBN 1-55778-420-5; Fix Doubleday, 1992; Open Road Telecommunications, 2015)

Anthologies edited by

  • Amazons! (NY: DAW Books, 1979)
  • Amazons II (NY: DAW Books, 1982)
  • Heroic Visions (NY: Delay Books, 1983)
  • Tales by Moonlight (NY: Tor Books, 1983)
  • The Haunted Barge and Other Rare Ghost Stories (Madison: Strange Company, 1985)
  • Heroic Visions II (NY: Ace Books, 1986)
  • Tales by Moonlight II (NY: Correspondent Books, 1989)
  • What Did Miss Darrington See? (NY: The Feminist Corporation at CUNY, 1989)
  • Wife or Spinster: Short Stories by 19th 100 American Women (Maine: Yankee Books, 1991) with Charles Waugh

Collections avoid by

  • Faded Garden: The Collected Spectre Stories of Hildegarde Hawthorne (1985)
  • The Supernatural Stories of Fitz-James Author Volume One: Macabre Tales (NY: Doubleday, 1988)
  • The Supernatural Stories expend Fitz-James O'Brien Volume Two: Fantasy Tales and Fantasies (NY: Doubleday, 1988)
  • From Out of the Past: The Indiana Ghost Stories be advantageous to Anna Nicholas (Ghost Story Homeland, UK: 1992)
  • Master of Fallen Years: Complete Supernatural Stories of Vincent O'Sullivan (Ghost Story Press, UK: 1995)
  • The Rose of Death with the addition of Other Mysterious Delusions by General Hawthorne (British Columbia: Ash-Tree Company, 1997)
  • The Shell of Sense: Nonchalant Ghost Stories of Olivia Thespian Dunbar (Uncasville, CT: R.

    Revolve. Fawcett, 1997)

  • Twilight and Other Spooky Romances by Marjorie Bowen (Ash-Tree Press, 1998)
  • Lady Ferry and All over the place Uncanny People by Sarah Orne Jewett (Ash-Tree Press, 1998)
  • The Strange Coach and Other Ghost Fairy-tale of an Antiquary by Statesman Jessopp (R. H. Fawcett, 1998)
  • The Wind at Midnight by Sakartvelo Wood Pangborn (Ash-Tree Press, 1999)
  • The Moonstone Mass and Others uncongenial Harriet Prescott Spofford (Ash-Tree Multinational, 2000)
  • The Golden Gong and Another Night-Pieces by Thomas Burke (Ash-Tree Press, 2001)
  • Sinister Romance: Collected Phantasm Stories by Mary Heaton Vorse (Ash-Tree Press, 2002)
  • The Empire preceding Death and Other Strange Stories by Alice Brown (Ash-Tree Exhort, 2003)
  • City of the Sea plus Other Ghost Stories by Saint K.

    Jerome (Ash-Tree Press, 2008)

  • The Wondersmith and Others by Fitz-James O'Brien (Ash-Tree Press, 2008)

References

  1. ^ abcdJohn Clute and John Grant, "Salmonson, Jessica Amanda", in The Lexicon of Fantasy, pp.

    832–833, Revolution, London / St Martin’s Control, New York (1997). Retrieved 5 July 2023.

  2. ^Brian Stableford, The Adroit to Z of Fantasy Literature, pp. 356–367, The A put in plain words Z Guide Series, Scarecrow Contain (2009), ISBN 978-0-8108-6829-8
  3. ^ abcdJessica Amanda Salmonson at the Internet Speculative Fabrication Database
  4. ^Jessica Salmonson papers, Collection 472.

    University of Oregon Libraries. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

  5. ^Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Battalion Warriors from Antiquity to significance Modern Era, (1991), Universal Popular & Marketing; First Edition: ISBN 1557784205 Paperback: ISBN 0385423667
  6. ^The literary magazine be more or less Fantasy & Terror, Volume 1, No.

    2, 1973. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

  7. ^Series: The Literary Monthly of Fantasy and Terror, ISFDB. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  8. ^G. Unprotected. Thomas, An Interview with Jessica Amanda Salmonson, January 20, 2018 Archived 2013-02-26 at the Wayback Machine (2003)
  9. ^"2nd Annual Lambda Learned Awards".

    Lambda Literary. July 13, 1990. Retrieved December 21, 2019.

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