Frey, J. M.: - J.M. is an author, screenwriter, and lapsed academic. With an MA in Communications and Culture, she's appeared in podcasts, documentaries, and on radio and television to discuss all things geeky through the lens of academia. She also has an addiction to scarves, Doctor Who, and tea, which may or may not all be related. Her life's ambition is to have stepped foot on every continent (only 3 left!)J.M.'s also a professionally trained actor who takes absolute delight in weird stories, over the top performances, and quirky characters. She's played everything from Marmee to the Red Queen, Jane Eyre to Annie, and dozens of strange creatures and earnest heroines as a voice actor. Her debut novel TRIPTYCH was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards, won the San Francisco Book Festival award for SF/F, was nominated for a 2011 CBC Bookie, was named one of The Advocate's Best Overlooked Books of 2011, and garnered both a starred review and a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly. Her sophomore novel, an epic-length feminist meta-fantasy titled THE UNTOLD TALE, (book one of the Accidental Turn Series), debuted December 2015, and was followed up by THE FORGOTTEN TALE in 2016 and THE SILENCED TALE in December 2017. THE SKYLARK'S SONG, book one of The Skylark's Saga, a steampunk action novel about a girl vigilante and her mysterious rocketpack, soared into book stores in 2018, and was followed by THE SKYLARK'S SACRIFICE in September 2019. The Skylark's Saga was signed to a shopping agreement for an animation series in 2018. All six of these novels were reprinted under Frey's personal backlist imprint Here There Be. Her queer time-travel novel A WOMAN OF THE SEA was named a winner of the 2019 WATTY AWARD for Historical Fiction, and was published in Fall 2024 with W by Wattpad Books as TIME AND TIDE. It was named one of the New York Times' Best Romances of 2024.