Jeff is a self-professed “writer and arranger” of many things. He authors and edits fantasy, science fiction, and—in such works as The Silmarillion Primer—now a dash of “popular scholarship.” A lifelong tabletop gamer, he’s written RPG adventures and campaign lore for Goodman Games, Dragon and Dungeon magazine articles for Wizards of the Coast, and the Scribe Award–nominated Eberron novel The Darkwood Mask. He once coaxed a stable of fantasy authors into writing cyberpunk short stories for an indie multimedia anthology (Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero).
But Jeff can’t leave Middle-earth well enough alone. For Tor.com (now called Reactor), he wrote dozens of Tolkien-based articles on topics such as Orcish souls, Elvish longevity, the mortality of Men, and heroes like Lúthien (Tolkien’s original badass Elf-princess). To say nothing of his revisiting and discussing The Silmarillion at length, always with the goal of bringing more readers into the legendarium.
By day, Jeff is a senior production editor at the Macmillan Publishing Group, working almost exclusively on Tor’s science fiction, fantasy, thriller, mystery, and horror imprints. Meanwhile, he is a husband, dad, gamer, and mere Christian. He lives in Bronx, New York, with his Argentine-mermaid wife and science-loving son, and, when time allows, they adventure throughout the Hudson Valley and points beyond.
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