J.M. McDermott





J.M. McDermott

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His first novel was plucked from a slush pile and went on to be #6 on Amazon.com's Year's Best SF/F of 2008, shortlisted for a Crawford Prize, and on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List for Debuts. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among other places. He has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an MFA in Popular Fiction from the Stonecoast program of the University of Southern Maine.

By night, he wanders a maze of bookshelves and empty coffee cups, and by day he wanders the streets of Atlanta, where he lives and works.

He tries to write in between.


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Average rating: 3.75 · 277 ratings · 94 reviews · 9 distinct works
Never Knew Another (Dogslan...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Last Dragon
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions
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When We Were Executioners (...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2012
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Death Mask and Eulogy
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011
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Disintegration Visions
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I Am Nature
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Never Knew Another When We Were Executioners
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“Do you know anything about hearts, Jona? The Senta know hearts. Hearts are not one organ. Inside a mother's womb, two pulsing bags of blood seek their eternal mate."
Her hand reached out to his. She opened his palm, and traced a finger down his lifeline, then his loveline. She lifter it up to her own face. She placed it on her cheek.
"Lungs are fine apart," she said, "Hands do not need another but to clap. Brains gnarl like roots in the nothing of soul, and guts spin in knots around the nothing of hunger. But hearts are made by two complete parts merging together. Once the two pieces sense each other in the blood flow, they cross every bloody cliff inside of us. The arteries bind the halves close. The veins make love to each other in the life pulse that makes all life from love entwined.”
J.M. McDermott, When We Were Executioners

“I learned that every tree fights for sunlight in the canopy, but this happens so slowly that the combat looks like peace.”
J.M. McDermott

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