Jay Verney

Jay Verney is an Australian writer who has published two novels, Percussion (University of Queensland Press), and A Mortality Tale (Allen & Unwin, 1st Edition; UQP, 2nd Edition), and a stack of other stuff including essays, articles, memoir, opinion pieces, newspaper columns, movie reviews, poetry, short stories, and theses.

A Mortality Tale was shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel and Miles Franklin Literary Awards, and Percussion got some pretty good reviews, too.

Jay has a PhD (in genre and crime fiction), and a Master's degree (memoir) in Creative Writing from Queensland University. In 2009, she received a Dean's Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis for her PhD. La-di-da and yippeekiyay, or exclamations to that effect. Seriously though, she was quite chuffed to receive the award and has it framed on her wall of - yes, framed things - at home. Occasionally, she shows it to her cat, Dotty, intending to pull her into line and create a sense of awe. So far, however, Jay remains the servant and Dotty the boss. The universe is as it should be.

Jay's third novel, Spawned Secrets, a thriller set in a rainforest and featuring disgraced stockbrokers and a serial killer (yes, he's after the stockbrokers - fictional payback is cathartic and fun) is her first foray into digital publishing. She has plans to publish more ebooks very soon with KDP, including e-versions of A Mortality Tale and Percussion.

Visit virtual Jay at her website, Transient Total Focus, at http://www.jayverney.net