Jayne Barnard

A double Aurora nominee & Debut Dagger finalist, Jayne is best known to Steampunks as the mind behind the World Parasol Dueling Championships, a sport inspired jointly by Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate and the parasol-wielding ferocity of Amelia Peabody, esteemed Egyptologist & crime-solver penned by Elizabeth Peters. 'MADDIE HATTER AND THE GILDED GAUGE' was named ALBERTA BOOK OF THE YEAR in 2018. As J.E. Barnard Jayne writes women's wilderness suspense in THE FALLS MYSTERIES, with WHEN THE FLOOD FALLS bringing home the Canadian Crime Writing Award of Excellence for Best Unpublished in 2016. Jayne divides her time between Alberta and Vancouver Island, and in the absence of a clockwork companion she gives orders to her ginger cat, who ignores them with the majestic indifference of cats everywhere.