Michael Jasper, author

This writer is looking for an agent.

LATEST NEWS: Michael writes an ongoing digital comic called IN MAPS & LEGENDS with artist Niki Smith, which ran at DC Comics' Zuda imprint before the site closed. The comic re-launched with UnWrecked Press on September 1st, 2010, and it's available with a variety of online distributors.

Michael has three unpublished novels available:

• FAMILY, PACK, a contemporary fantasy about a young father who's trying to determine if his infant daughter has inherited his werewolf gene, just as another pack of werewolves tries to move into their hometown.


• A SUDDEN OUTBREAK OF MAGIC, a young-adult fantasy novel about contagious magic unleashed by two teens in Dubuque, Iowa, of all places.


• THE ALL NATIONS TEAM, a historical baseball novel (and ghost story) based on the first-ever integrated team of not just black and white players, but players from Mexico, China, the Philippines, and elsewhere.

See Projects on Offer (below) for more information and links.

Michael's published books include:

• Urban fantasy novel A GATHERING OF DOORWAYS (Prime Books, 2009)
• SF novel THE WANNOSHAY CYCLE (Five Star Books, 2008; Merry Blacksmith Press, 2010)
• Paranormal romance novel HEART'S REVENGE (Five Star Books, 2006, as Julia C. Porter)
• Story collection GUNNING FOR THE BUDDHA (Prime Books, 2005)

He has published over four dozen short stories in places such as Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Polyphony, Electric Velocipede, O. Henry Festival Stories, and Paper Cities.

"In his third novel, speculative-fiction rising star Jasper offers a finely nuanced blend of fantasy and horror." — Carl Hays, Booklist (for A GATHERING OF DOORWAYS)

"A strong and compulsively readable novel about family and friends and the horrors, ordinary and not so ordinary, that beset them. From first page to last, Mike Jasper’s A GATHERING OF DOORWAYS is a cut above." — Lucius Shepard, author of The Jaguar Hunter and Softspoken

"While this world may seem darker and more dystopian by the day, avid, talented newcomers like Jasper help us keep the faith." — Faren Miller, Locus (for GUNNING FOR THE BUDDHA)

"Michael Jasper is a writer of great integrity, passion, and imagination. He creates imaginary characters who feel realer than some people I've actually met." — Tim Pratt, author of The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, Poison Sleep, and Spell Games

IN MAPS & LEGENDS, a webcomic that was published at the now-defunct Zuda Comics (an imprint of DC Comics).

THE WANNOSHAY CYCLE, a near-future science fiction novel, from Five Star Books, 2008, and reprinted by Merry Blacksmith Press, 2010.

FAMILY, PACK, a contemporary fantasy about a young father of an infant girl who may or may not have inherited his werewolf gene, and the violence that occurs when other wolves try to take over their hometown. Read an excerpt.

A SUDDEN OUTBREAK OF MAGIC, a YA contemporary fantasy novel about contagious magic unleashed by two teens in Dubuque, Iowa, of all places. Read an excerpt and a related story.

THE ALL NATIONS TEAM, a historical baseball novel based on the first-ever integrated team of not just black and white players, but players from Mexico, China, the Philippines, and elsewhere. Read an excerpt and a related story.