{"id":331,"date":"2014-06-02T20:37:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T01:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/?p=331"},"modified":"2014-06-02T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T03:07:12","slug":"jay-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2014\/06\/02\/jay-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jay<\/a>I met Jay Lake at Worldcon 2004 in Boston, where I took the photo on the left that somehow ended up being on his Wikipedia page<\/a> for the last few years. That’s also where I cried at a reading for the first (and so far only) time, when Jay read his story “The Angle of my Dreams.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Now Jay’s made me cry again.<\/p>\n

There was always a side of Jay that was larger than life, even when the repeated battles with cancer and chemo began to wear him down, but there was also a very human side to him that his many friends got to experience. I didn’t get to see him as often as I’d have liked over the last decade, but whenever our paths were going to cross at a convention I’d look forward to spending time with Jay’s sense of humor, his quick wit, and his kindness.<\/p>\n

In between those times I was lucky enough to be able to get early looks at his novels, from a very alpha draft of TRIAL OF FLOWERS onward, even before I began working with his agent, Jennifer Jackson. Jay always made me feel like my feedback on his work was important, even when I wasn’t so sure of its worth myself. I still hope that someday more readers will get to experience the last novel he completed, CALAMITY OF SO LONG A LIFE, the first in the Sunspin sequence.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to believe there won’t be more Jay, or more of his stories, but I’m be glad to have had the chance to know him and his work.<\/p>\n

I’ll miss you, Jay. And I’ll always remember.<\/p>\n

“And when I tell you to, jump into the sky. Just forget how to fall.” — from “Angle of my Dreams” by Jay Lake<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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