Pippa Jay

After spending twelve years working as an Analytical Chemist in a Metals and Minerals laboratory, Pippa Jay is now a stay-at-home mum who writes scifi and the supernatural. Somewhere along the way a touch of romance crept into her work and refused to leave. In between torturing her plethora of characters, she spends the odd free moment playing guitar very badly, punishing herself with freestyle street dance, and studying the Dark Side of the Force. Although happily settled in the historical town of Colchester in the UK with her husband of 22 years and three little monsters, she continues to roam the rest of the Universe in her head.

Pippa Jay is a dedicated member of the Science Fiction Romance Brigade and Broad Universe, blogging at Spacefreighters Lounge, Adventures in Scifi, and Romancing the Genres. Her works include YA and adult stories crossing a multitude of subgenres from scifi to the paranormal, often with romance, and she’s one of eight authors included in a science fiction romance anthology—Tales from the SFR Brigade. She’s also a double SFR Galaxy Award winner, been a finalist in the Heart of Denver RWA Aspen Gold Contest (3rd place), the GCC RWA Silken Sands Star Awards (2nd place), and an EPIC eBook awards finalist.

You can stalk her at her website, or at her blog, but without doubt her favorite place to hang around and chat is on Twitter as @pippajaygreen.

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• Cigs, Bolan & Strange Men with Guns on Sep. 19, 2011
  
  An intriguing and easy-to-read short to keep you entertained over your tea break.
  
• Silver Thaw on Dec. 10, 2011
  
  It takes a lot to hook me into a story these days, but this one did it. It's also very rare these days that I can start reading something without at least a small urge to edit. Silver Thaw is an entertaining fantasy, smoothly told, with wonderful world-building and believable, consistent characters and a chilling edge of horror. If I was pressed to make any criticism, and I’m struggling to do so here, it would simply be the POV characters who die. Having gotten so far into their heads and characters, it just jarred a little for me, though I think that's a tribute to the writer's skill in making me empathize with them so deeply. The author clearly knows her craft and how to spin a good tale. The ending left me with tears in my eyes and the intention to read it again very soon.
  
• Crimson Rain on Jan. 15, 2012
  
  This started off almost like a someone daydreaming on a summer's afternoon, but soon the sorrow and the tragic history of the narrator seeps through, and you share the pain of their decision. Very moving.
  
• Tales From the SFR Brigade on June 29, 2013
  
  In the interest of full disclosure - I have a story in this anthology. My review and rating is based solely on the the other seven stories in the collection, and NOT my opinion of my own. Allure - I had the privilege of beta reading this before it was even submitted, and it still had me swallowing tears after the first couple of pages. Short and achingly sweet. If you aren't sniffling by the end you have no heart. Nobody's Present - normally I don't go for the Mars needs women type story - one of my least favourite tropes - but this one pulled me right in and made me love it. *salutes author* The Stranger - another short and sweet story, of love rediscovered. I would like to see this developed as a longer story. Nam Selan - I'm a relative newcomer to Linnea's work, pointed there by Laurie Green, but I have read Games of Command. That book is a favourite because of Kel-Paton and Sass, so meeting them again was such a pleasure. Prime Sensations - another I got to beta read, and despite disliking creme brulee I think of it with fondness everytime I hear it mentioned after this story. How to write sensuous without the sex. ;) Envy's Revenge - grim and gritty view of a dystopian future. Despite that, the romance is very sweet and believable. Whiskey and Starshine - a definite tang of Firefly! Lovely descriptions, intense romance and evocative of the Wild West in space. Each story had a very distinctive flavour, and in spite of being short, I had no problem visualizing each 'world'. The characters were believable and often enthralling. I would love to read more stories set in each universe. This is one of the few books I've read recently that I would go back and read again.