Footprints

Jay Lake was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an award-winning editor, a popular raconteur and toastmaster, and an excellent teacher at the many writers' workshops he attended. His novels included Tor's publications Mainspring, Escapement, and Pinion, and the trilogy of novels in his Green cycle - Green, Endurance, and Kalimpura. Lake was nominated multiple times for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 2004, the year after his first professional stories were published. In 2008 Jay Lake was diagnosed with colon cancer, and in the years after he became known outside the sf genre as a powerful and brutally honest blogger about the progression of his disease. Jay Lake died on June 1, 2014.

Eric T. Reynolds is Editor/Publisher with Hadley Rille Books (hrbpress.com). He was born and raised in Eureka, Kansas, which is nestled in the Flint Hills, has lived elsewhere in Kansas, & on the East Coast, and currently lives in Kansas City. His fiction has appeared in the magazines Mythic Circle, Galaxy's Edge, Sci Phi Journal, and in several indie press publications, and had several articles published in an encyclopedia about the history of space exploration.