Jamie M. Boyd

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Writer. Mother. Recovering Journalist. Words in Strange Horizons, Heartlines Spec &more. SFWA. Codex. www.jamiemboyd.com

Model of two pirate ships exchanging cannon fire.
The cover of the novel The City & The City by China Mieville features two city skylines running up opposite vertical sides of the book with a hazy fog in the middle that shifts from red to gold to blue.
A one-year old tricolor chocolate Bernedoodle poses for the camera. She has traditional tuxedo colorings and if you look close from behind, a bit of copper on her back legs. The copper on her eyebrows she had when she was little has faded away. She weighs 27 pounds.
The cover of the BFSA anthology Fission #6 features a space djinn with intimidating claws staring out into the distance. The book is edited by Gene Rowe and Rick Danforth.
A woman studies the painting Cairo by Julie Mehretu while the colorful work Tulips by Jeff Koons reflects light in the foreground.
The crowd cheers at the World Cup game between Turkey and the US as the two country's flags stretch over the field at SoFi Stadium / Los Angelos Stadium.
The cover of Life Beyond Us, an SFF anthology about life on other worlds, features line drawings of strange creatures, stars, and the curvature of an earth-like planet.
A black and white photograph of a spider crawling on a woman's face.
The carpet of a room is covered in ripped up pillow stuffing. Camera pans to the culprit -- a Bernedoodle who looks away from the camera. "Who me?"
A bright green rabbit's foot fern sits in a blue and white pot on a desk where a book is open to the classic science fiction and body horror short story "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler.
A green iguana hides in green foliage as he eats.
WisCon is science fiction convention with a feminist/social justice focus. This year's guest of honors are Darcie Little Badger and Preemee Mohamed. Visit wiscon.net for more info.
A large banyan tree stands tall as sun rays filter through its canopy, highlighting its branches and many arial roots.
A labradoodle and a bernedoodle play tug of war.
The cover of the science fiction novel The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed features an illustration of a crowded cityscape within a generation ship, filled with skyscrapers, dome habitats, green spaces and mosques.
A twilight sky dims over a Florida swamp on the cover of the post-apocalyptic, eco fiction novel "The Light Pirate" by Lily Brooks-Dalton.
A beetle with flecks of gold, irredescent blue and green sits on a rainforest leaf. Published with other photos in the NYTimes, with credits to Timo Metz, Javier Aznar, Scott Trageser.
A sloth with big brown eyes smiles sweetly.
Water sprays 100 feet down over a granite cliff at Rainbow Falls.
A kitesurfer glides across the ocean on Fort Lauderdale beach as people hope to get a glimpse of the Artemis launch to the north.
Fort Lauderdale's aquatic center is home to a 27-meter dive tower, supposedly the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, pictured here. Two men dive off lower levels on a sunny, bright blue sky day.
On the cover of the short story collection The Church of Divine Electricity, a drone buzzes in the air against a bright pink backdrop and casts a shadow that looks like it could be a bird or an angel.
A woman stands at the edge of a river, carrying a sword and wearing little but a long stream of hair down her back.
A spray of pink and white orchids with fuchsia centers and feathering on the largest petals bloom from a banyan tree.
Text on background of a misty green forest reads: "We rushed to embrace but stopped short, each caught on an invisible fishing line, on the hook that was our lives--at once remembering where we were, who we were.
Flames leap in the air above a black metal fire pit.
Surf crashes on Florida beach.
Bernedoodle puppy plays with a ball at the beach.
Eerie, abstract image of what could be a human eye, but in place of the black pupil is a ghostly, blurry face. Text reads: "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Volume 1," curated by Michael Kelly.
Photo of the Cuypers Library within the Rijksmuseum. Library shelves filled with books stretch several stories tall below beautiful arched windows.
"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” is a Rembrandt painting that pictures seven men gathered around a corpse while a doctor does a dissection and gives an anatomy lesson on the dead man's left arm.
Azure skies and puffy white clouds stretch above the blue-green waters of Miami's South Beach. Umbrellas and lounge chairs line the white sand in neat rows.
Four-month old Bernedoodle puppy poses for the camera after waking up her owner at 6 a.m.
A historic photograph of the gold rush town Virginia City, Nevada, during the Old West/Wild West era. Men sit in a stagecoach surrounded by horses in front of an old building.
Blue 1966 Mustang sits parked in a driveway.
Bernedoodle puppy looks into the camera. How can you resist?!
Quote from the story "On Sacrifice" by Jamie M. Boyd. "When the Briareus first came into view, they were so far below us they looked like a small, bleached coral reef. But as we dove, it felt more like plummeting into a giant tree canopy. Some were smooth and hard as bone, others lacy and flexible like gigantic sea fans, their branches twisting and undulating all around us. Like ghosts."
Jane Goodall reaches out to hold the hand of a baby chimp. Photo by Hugo Van Lawick/National Geographic Society.
The cover of the novel "The Staving Saints" by Caitlin Starling features a nun in a habit holding a bee hive, only instead of a face, there is a portal to another world with blood and gaping beings.
Image shows a framed quote from George Orwell's Animal Farm next to an ominous illustration of farm animals. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Bernedoodle puppy on a leash sits on a grass lawn.
White and brown Bernedoodle puppy paws toward the camera playfully.
Small white mushroom with thin stalk and delicate ruffled cap.
The nonfiction disaster book "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer features a cover with a photo of Mount Everest and a quote that says it "Ranks among the great adventure books of all time."
A sliced lime and green lemon sit on a bamboo cutting board.
Uncertain Sons by Thomas Ha is a short fiction collection. It's cover features a creepy image of a strange pale being, possibly an alien, with neck veins (which might also be wires or roots?) exposed against a blood red backdrop. The veins/wires/roots continue down the book, twisting into architectural forms that suggest a castle or city.
The cover of "Into the Wild Magic" by Michelle Knudsen shows two sixth-grade girls standing in front of a large tree as one of them casts a magic spell within glowing circles of light. The other girl holds an adorable cat. In the background, a fox peeks out from the forest and lightning bugs glow.
Large oak tree with moss and lichen growing on its trunk.
The cover of "Clap When You Land" by Elizabeth Acevedo is cut down the middle by the shadow-shape of two airplanes flying toward each other. On either side is half of the face of a different young woman, one lighter-skinned, one dark-skinned, one with an urban city setting behind her, the other with tropical Dominican Republic as the backdrop. They are two sisters who don't know they have the same father until tragedy strikes.
View of ancient stones, misty sky and water along path of the Old Man of Storr hike on Scotland's Isle of Skye.
A bike sits parked in front of a canal in Amsterdam with historic buildings, blue skies and puffy clouds in the background.
Cousins stand arm in arm watching small fireworks they have set off in driveway.
The cover of The Painter's Daughters shows a young girl posing for a portrait, her face surrounded by a gold frame. On second glance, the reader notices her head is being held up by another hand coming from off-cover, she has a smudge of grey paint on her face and her eyes are different colors, suggesting something is amiss.
Image of Stonehenge on a cloudy day with green grass in the foreground.
Blue book cover that states "The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth (The Inky Fool)"
Two wild green parrots hang from a bird feeder in South Florida.
Museum image of "Man in the Moon" with a rocket lodged in his eye.
Basket of mangos in various stages of ripening, from green to gold to pink.
Cover of A Natural History of Empty Lots shows a concrete structure being overgrown by wildflowers.
Photo of a stack of books on a bedside table, including the titles: You Dreamed of Empires, The Leviathan, Remarkable Bright Creatures, The Painters Daughters, Ancilary Sword, Packing for Mars, The Book of Night Women, Red Clocks, Demon Copperhead and The Unreal and the Real.