Jennifer Brozek (born December 9, 1970) is an American freelance author, game design writer, editor, and small press publisher.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Brozek was a software QA engineer working on a wide range of projects, including video games. Brozek co-chaired one of the first Babylon 5 Andy Weir and is listed as a 200-point GURPS character.
Brozek began her professional writing career in 2004. She was the editor-in-chief of the semiprozine, The Edge of Propinquity , a webzine that published for six years, and worked as an assistant editor, sounding board and convention volunteer for the Apex Book Company. Brozek is now the creative director of Apocalypse Ink Productions and a member of Broad Universe, the Horror Writers Association , and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). She was elected SFWA Director-at-Large in 2015.
Cabal, RPG sourcebook - Contributor, Corone Designs, Mar 2017 Colonial Gothic: Settings Colonial Gothic 3rd sourcebook - Rogue Games (March 2017)H.E.A.D. Hunters RPG Minitures-CCG game- Fiction co-author - Gut Shot Games (2017)Red Aegis RPG Sourcebook- additional writing - Vorpal Games (April 2016)Colonial Gothic: Roanoke RPG sourcebook - Rogue Games (Feb 2015)Castlemourn - Players Guide to Castlemourn (co-author) (ISBN 1931567204), Castlemourn corebookColonial Gothic - Elizabethtown (author), Plymouth Rock (author), The Ross-Allen Letters (co-author), Colonial Gothic 2nd EditionChill, 3rd Edition - OtherWorld Creations, Co-Author with Mike CallahanCortex - Cortex rulebookDragonlance - Legends of the Twins, Holy Order of StarsSavage Worlds - Shanghai Vampocalypse (author), Covert Ops (author)Serenity (role-playing game ) - Big Damn Heroes Handbook ISBN 1-931567-82-4Shadowrun White Wolf SAS - Proverbial Monsters (author)Machine Zeit - Machine Age Productions, Contributor, Editor
2016 Star Realms: Rescue Run - Evil Girlfriend Media - [4]
2017
Maximum Velocity: The Best of Full Throttle Space Tales anthology - co-editor - Wordfire Press (June 2017) 2015
Naughty Or Nice: A Holiday Anthology, anthology - Evil Girlfriend Media (Nov 2015) 2014
Bless Your Mechanical Heart anthology - Evil Girlfriend Media, Editor, April 2014Beast Within 4: Gears & Growls anthology - Graveside Tales, Editor, October 2014Chicks Dig Gaming non-fiction anthology - Mad Norwegian Press, Co-Editor (with Robert Smith? and Lars Pearson), November 2014Shattered Shields anthology - Baen Books, Co-Editor (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt), November 2014
2013
Coins of Chaos', EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy , Sept 20132012
Beast Within 3: Oceans Unleashed , Graveside Tales, Dec 2012Dangers Untold anthology - Alliteration Ink Press, Editor, 1 October 2012
2011
Human for a Day , DAW, Dec 2011Beauty Has Her Way , Dark Quest Books, Jan 2011Human Tales , Dark Quest Books, Apr 2011Beast Within 2 , Graveside Tales, Jun 2011Space Tramps , Flying Pen Press, Sep 20112010
Close Encounters of the Urban Kind , Apex Book Company, 20102009
Grants Pass , Morrigan Books, 2009 ISBN 91-977605-6-0 2017
Five Minute Stories, flash fiction collection - Apocalypse Ink Productions, Upcoming 2016
The Last Days of Salton Academy , Novel - Ragnarok Productions October 2016Colonial Gothic: Lost Tales collection - Rogue Games - April 2016Karen Wilson Chronicles - omnibus of the Karen Wilson Chronicles Series - Apocalypse Ink Productions - March 2016Never Let Me Omnibus of the Melissa Allen series - Permuted Press January 2016
2015
Never Let Me Die Book 3 of the Melissa Allen Series - Permuted Press, December 2015Never Let me Leave Book 2 of the Melissa Allen Series - Permuted Press, November 2015Chimera Incarnate: Book Four of the Karen Wilson Chronicles , novel - Apocalypse Ink Productions, March 2015DocWagon 19 , Shadowrun novella - Catalyst Game Labs , March 2015Never Let Me Sleep, Book One of the Melissa Allen series , Young adult SF-thriller novel - Permuted Press, TBA 2015The Last Days of Salton Academy Ragnarok Publications, TBA2014
The Nellus Academy Incident , YA Battletech novel - Catalyst Game Labs , January 2014Keystones: Book Three of the Karen Wilson Chronicles , novel - Apocalypse Ink Productions, April 20142013
Children of Anu: Book Two of the Karen Wilson Chronicles , mosaic novel - Apocalypse Ink Productions, June 20132012
The Lady of Seeking in the City of Waiting , Shadeside novella - Dark Quest Books, February 2012Caller Unknown: Book One of the Karen Wilson Chronicles , mosaic novel - Apocalypse Ink Productions, November 20122011
Shanghai Vampocalypse hard copy - Savage Mojo, Author, August 2011
2010
In a Gilded Light: 105 Tales of the Macabre , Dark Quest Books, 2010The Little Finance Book That Could , Book Shaker, 2010 ISBN 1-907498-33-8Industry Talk: An Insider's Look at Writing RPGs and Editing Anthologies , Apocalypse Ink Productions, 2012 ISBN 09855323192017
"Reborn" - Pathways: All-New Tales of Valdemar anthology - DAW, December 2017 "Sandcastle Sacrifices" - Killing It Softly 2 anthology, reprint - Digital Fiction Publishing Corp, TBA 2017 "Last Report from the KSS Psychopomp" Predator: If It Bleeds anthology - Titan Books (Oct 2017) "Vulture Patrol" MECH: Age of Steel - Ragnarok Publishing (January 2017) [5] "The Broken Silence of Fanghan" - Memento Mori anthology - Digital Fiction Publishing Corp (Jan 2017) 2016
"Feathers in Flight" - Tempsest: All New Tals of Valdemar anthology - DAW (Dec 2016) "Inky, Blinky, and Me" Man and Machine - eSpec Books - November 2016 [6] "Dark Side Matters" Drawing Destiny, a Sixth World Tarot anthology - Catalyst Game Labs (Aug 2016) "The Unfortunate Case of Sister Ruth" Shockwaves, a V-Wars anthology - IDW (Aug 2016) "The Prince of Artemis V" Decision Points - WorldFire Press - May 2016 "ARMIN LAAS" ROBOTS! Origins Game Fair Anthology - 2016 2015
"The Broken Silence of Fanghan" - Not Our Kind anthology - Alliteration Ink, February 2015 "Found on the Body of a Soldier" - Life After Ashes anthology - Alliteration Ink, March 2015 (Reprint.) " The Last Survey of Hiroshi Nevitt" - SPACE! Origins Game Fair anthology - Rio Grande Games (June 2015) "Rune's Avatar Cafe" World of Shadows Shadowrun anthology - Catalyst Game Labs (Aug 2015) "Feathers in Need" Crucible: All-New Tales of Valdemar anthology - DAW (Dec 2015) 2014
"The Bathory Clinic Deal" - The Future Embodied anthology - Simian Publishing, March 2014 "Ley of the Land" - Time-Traveled Tales 2 anthology - Silence in the Library, April 2014 "Kelpie Storm" - MONSTERS! Origins Game Fair anthology - Rio Grande Games, June 2014 "Janera" - Athena's Daughters anthology - Silence in the Library, June 2014 "Dreams of a Thousand Young" novelette - Jazz Age Cthulhu anthology - Innsmouth Free Press, November 2014 "For the Love of a Troll on a Mid-Winter's Night" - Night Terrors III anthology - Blood Bound Books, December 2014 "Written in the Wind" - No True Way: All-New Tales of Valdemar anthology - DAW, December 2014
2013
"Iron Achilles Heel" - The New Hero II anthology - Stone Skin Press, February 2013 "Memories Like Crystal Shards" - HEROES! Origins Game Fair anthology - Rio Grande Games, June 2013 "An Infestation of Adverts" - Blue Shift Magazine , Issue #1 - White Cat Publications, June 2013 "Dust Angels" - Beyond the Sun anthology - Fairwood Press, July 2013 "Lock and Key" - Shadowrun Returns kickstarter anthology - Catalyst Game Labs, July 2013 "The Danger of Side Jobs" - Shadowrun 5th Edition - Catalyst Game Labs, September 2013 "A Card Given" - What Fates Impose anthology - Alliteration Ink, September 2013 "The Price of Family" - Elementary (All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters) anthology - DAW, December 2013 "A Nightmare for Anna" - By Faerie Light anthology - Zombie Sky Press, December 2013 2012
"Showdown at High Moon" - Westward Weird anthology - DAW, February 2012 "Sharks & Seals" - Fat Girl in a Strange Land anthology - Crossed Genres Publications, February 2012 "That Bastard Called Hope" - Slices of Flesh anthology - Dark Moon Digest, March 2012 "The Tinker's Music Box" - Time-traveled Tales anthology - Origins Game Fair, May 2012 2011
"Honoring the Dead" - Night-Mantled: The Best of Wily Writers , Volume 1 anthology - Wily Writers, Feb 2011 (Reprint) "M.O.V.E." - No Man's Land anthology - Dark Quest Books, May 2011 "A Promise Made" - Showdown at Midnight anthology - Science Fiction Trails, June 2011 "Asta's Choice" - Carnage & Consequences anthology - Walkabout Publishing, August 2011 "The Komastu" - APEXOLOGY:SFF anthology - Apex Publications, August 2011 (Reprint) "Scarabs From Afar" - Science Fiction Trails magazine, Issue #7 - October 2011 "The Priest, the Man, the Gun" - Tales of the Talisman magazine, Volume 7, Issue 2 - Hadrosaur Productions, October 2011 "Trail of Breadcrumbs" - Finding Home anthology - Timid Pirate - December 2011 "Discordance" - Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar anthology - DAW, December 2011 2010
"The Prince of Artemis V" - Crossed Genres Issue 15 - Crossed Genres, January 2010 "The Cost of Job Security" - Masters of Horror anthology - Triskaideka Books, March 2010 "Snipe Hunting" - Apex Digest April 2010 - Apex Publications, April 2010 "The Prince of Artemis V" - Stalking the Wild Hare anthology - Walkabout Publishing, August 2010 (reprint) "Eulogy for Muffin" - APEXOLOGY:Horror anthology - Apex Publications, August 2010 "Family Duty" - Issue 20 - M-Brane SF , September 2010 (print publication to occur in M-Brane SF Quarterly #1, October 2010) "A Bite to Remember" - The Zombie Feed - Apex Publications, September 2010 (Reprint) "Swallow It All" - Rigor Amortis anthology - Absolute XPress, October 2010 "Seven Little Words" - The Little Death of Crossed Genres Issue 1 - Crossed Genres, October 2010 2009
"Three Flashes of Fang & Fur", The Fleas They Carried: Winter 2009 anthology - Relief Anthology, Contributor, May 2009 "Honoring the Dead" - Wily Writers , Author, May 2009 "A Bite to Remember", The World is Dead anthology - Permuted Press, Contributor, September 2009 "Nothing Left to Salvage" - Wily Writers , Author, November 2009 "Nothing Left to Salvage", Zombonauts anthology - Library of Living Dead Press, Contributor, December 2009 (Reprint) Media Tie-In Writing AKA Cannon Fan Fiction - Girls on Games: A Look at the Fairer Side of the Industry anthology - Lizard King Creative (July 2016)No One True Way - The Usual Path to Publication anthology - Bookview Cafe (June 2016)Cthulhurotica , "The Sexual Attraction of the Lovecraftian Universe", Dagan Books, December 2010GOLD Guide to Competitive Gaming , "Making the Fantastic Believable", 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming, TBA 2011Writing Heroic Fantasy ,"NPCs Are People Too", Blades Entertainment, TBA 2011Columns The Making of an Anthology , Apex Publications Blog, 2011Dice & Deadlines - RPG Insiders Column , Geek's Dream Girl website, 2011Dice & Deadlines - RPG Insiders Column , Geek's Dream Girl website, 2010
2017
2017 Bram Stoker Nomination for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel [7] 2016
2016 Bram Stoker Nomination for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel [8] 2015
2015 Hugo Nomination for Best Short Form Editor 2015 Scribe Award for best tie-in YA novel "The Nellus Academy Incident" 2015 Scribe Award Nomination for Short Story "Tales of Valdemar: Written in the Wind" 2015 ENnie Award Nomination for "Chicks Dig Gaming: A Celebration of All Things Gaming by the Women Who Love It" 2014
2014 Scribe Award Nomination for Short Stories "Locks and Keys" 2013
2013 Contributed to Shadowrun Returns anthology that won Diehard GameFAN's Best Tabletop Based Fiction award
2011
2011 silver ENnie award for Best Electronic Books, Shanghai Vampocalyse , published by Savage Mojo 2010
2010 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement, Big Damn Heroes Handbook supplement 2010 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement, Shadowrun: Seattle 2072 supplement (nominated) 2009
2009 Australian Shadows Award for edited publication, Grants Pass anthology 
