The daughter of a clown, of course, Jessica Palmer would become a nurse
who specialised in psychiatric nursing. Later she returned to school to
get a degree in psychological counselling. Deciding that wasn't quite crazy
enough, she began writing professionally in 1978, when she wrote a thirteen
part-television series on alcoholism, after years of copious field research.
As a journalist, she has written for United Press International, Associated
Press, and numerous other publications and journals. She has ten textbooks
in the area of engineering technology to her credit--specifically explosives
and radiation, which makes her a danger to herself and others.
Consequently she has been confined to writing fiction--as an exercise
in damage limitation. In the US, Palmer has had four adult horror novels
published. In the UK, she writes primarily fantasy and science fiction,
with some six books currently on the market. Including textbooks and foreign
translations, her works have appeared in nearly every country of the world.
While her short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies on both
sides of the Atlantic.
Hobbies include pulling wings off flies, robbing blood banks, participating
in bondage with her PC and harassing anyone who happens to cross her path.
She was last seen being bailed out of Battersea Dogs' Home immediately
after the last full moon
Other Works:
Short Fiction
Graven Images, March 1990 of Fear magazine.
The Gift, October 1990 issue of Cemetery Dance;
The Tape, Final Shadows, anthology, released by Doubleday in 1991.
Quiet is the Night, Richard Dalby's Vampire Stories, an anthology, Michael
O'Mara Books, Ltd, October 1992.
Redemption, Constable New Crimes an anthology, Constable, 1992.
Well of Silence, horror, English Level 2, Meulenhoff Educatief, Amsterdam,
Holland, 1994.
Danger in Dallas, adventure, English Level 3, Meulenhoff Educatief, Amsterdam,
Holland, 1994.
Last Laugh, Weirdbook, W. Paul Ganley Publishing, Fall 1993.
Lex Talonis, Royal Crimes anthology, New American Library, New York, June
1994.
Just Desserts, Constable New Crimes 2 anthology, Constable, London; June
1994.
Presentiment's Hands, Peeping Tom magazine, 1993.
Ortygia, Interzone, September 1994.
Full Moon Rising, London Noir, an anthology; Serpent's Tail, June 1994.
No Good Turn, Dark Hour, Summer 1994.
Cinderella Revisited, Weirdbook, W. Paul Ganley Publishing, Summer 1994.
What the Dickens, Substance magazine of adult sf and fantasy, 1995.
