Books Written
Dogs in the Moonlight

A Locus New and Notable book.

"By turns horrific and hilariously funny (or both), these beautifully written stories feature strong characters, a well-delineated sense of place and a powerfully skewed vision of the world."
Publisher's Weekly
February 14th, 2005 (starred review)
Dogs In the Moonlight cover
Prime Books | August, 2004; March, 2005
Hardcover | ISBN: 777004197X
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 1930997574
Buy: Hardcover, Paperback

American Sorrows cover American Sorrows

A Locus recommended book.

"American Sorrows bears witness to the author's steady growth as a storyteller, as well as to his established excellence of style and inventiveness of concept."
Locus, December, 2004
Wheatland Press | August, 2004
Scorpius Digital | August, 2004
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0975590308
e-Book | ISBN: 1931305021
Buy: Book, eBook

Green Grow the Rushes-Oh

"There is one good reason you must read Jay Lake's stories. They are beautifully simple and simply beautiful."
Zoran Zivkovic
Winner of the World Fantasy Award
Green Grow The Rushes-Oh cover
"Jay Lake's language is poetic and beautiful."
Carol Emshwiller
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award
Fairwood Press | April, 2004
Chapbook | ISBN: 0974657328
Originally appeared online at Strange Horizons
Buy: Chapbook | Read online

Greetings From Lake Wu cover Greetings From Lake Wu

A Locus recommended book.

"An excellent showcase for one of SF's fastest rising talents, an author with the range, the expressiveness, and the depth to grow into a Grand Master."
Locus, December, 2003
Wheatland Press | November, 2003
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0972054723
Buy: Book
Books Edited
All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories
(with David Moles)

A Locus recommended book.

All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories cover
Wheatland Press | October, 2004
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0972054774
Buy: Book

Polyphony 4 cover Polyphony 4
(with Deborah Layne)

A Locus recommended book.

Wheatland Press | September, 2004
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0972054766
Buy: Book

Polyphony 3
(with Deborah Layne)

A Locus recommended book.

Polyphony 3 cover
Wheatland Press | November, 2003
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0972054731
Buy: Book

Polyphony 4 cover Polyphony 2
(with Deborah Layne)

A Locus recommended book.

Wheatland Press | April, 2003
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0972054715
Buy: Book

Polyphony 1
(with Deborah Layne)

A Locus recommended book.

Polyphony 3 cover
Wheatland Press | August, 2002
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0972054707
Buy: Book
Books Upcoming
Rocket Science
(a short novel)

A classically-styled novel of families, flying saucers and betrayal in post-WW II Kansas.

"If the Hardy Boys stayed up half the night reading Astounding Magazine by flashlight, this is what they would dream after they turned out the light." — Jerry Oltion
Rocket Science cover
Fairwood Press | September, 2005
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0974657360
Preorder: Book

TEL : Stories cover TEL : Stories
(edited solo)

TEL : Stories is dedicated to the idea that there is no such thing as stylistic excess. Featuring a reprint of Greer Gilman's "Jack Daw's Pack," as well as new fiction from Forrest Aguirre, Gregory Feeley, Jeff VanderMeer and many other fine authors.

"Elegant, erudite and strange, TEL : Stories is a remarkable anthology, containing much to enchant, perplex and terrify." — Liz Williams
Wheatland Press | August, 2005
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0975590332

Polyphony 5
(with Deborah Layne)

The fifth volume in the critically-acclaimed Polyphony anthology series from Wheatland Press, featuring stories from Theodora Goss, Bruce Holland Rogers and Jeff VanderMeer.
Polyphony 5 cover
Wheatland Press | November, 2005
Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0975590359

Spicy Slipstream Stories cover Spicy Slipstream Stories
(with Nick Mamatas)

An anthology embraces both the traditions of the old "spicy" pulps (not just adventure, but adventure and bosoms out to here!) and the stylistic innovations of that non-genre genre, slipstream. Embrace, the way a sweaty and bruised naif cut free from a phallic V2 rocket by a square-jawed test pilot will embrace her savior.
Wheatland Press | September, 2006
Trade Paperback | ISBN: TBA

Polyphony 6
(with Deborah Layne)
The sixth volume in the critically-acclaimed Polyphony anthology series from Wheatland Press.
Polyphony 6 cover
Wheatland Press | October, 2006
Trade Paperback | ISBN: TBA
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