M.J. Lyons
M.J. Lyons | |
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Born | Michael Joseph Lyons September 8, 1988 New Brunswick, Canada |
Occupation | Author |
Language | English |
Nationality | Canadian |
Genre | Science fiction, steampunk, history |
Notable awards | LGBT Youthline Award 2012 for Outstanding Contribution to Art and Culture |
Years active | 2010-present |
Website | |
michaellyonswrites | |
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Michael Joseph Lyons (born September 8, 1988) is a Canadian science fiction author and journalist.
Career[edit]
Lyons was born in Canada in New Brunswick[1], but moved to Toronto, Ontario for university. He attended York University for theatre studies with a focus on playwriting. After graduating, he began to contribute to local publications, including regular contributions to fab (magazine)[2] and Daily Xtra[3], Canada's national LGBT publication. In 2012, he began a collaboration with another Daily Xtra journalist on a column about lesser known LGBT history titled History Boys that ran in print and digitally bi-monthly for five years totalling over a hundred entries[4].
In 2013, Lyons attended Ryerson University in Toronto for journalism, and interned with the National Post[5] as part of the program.
He joined the team of independent Canadian video game developer Bloom Digital Media's writing team in 2015. He has contributed multiple episodes of mobile LGBT-positive dating game LongStory[1], which received the IMGA Jury’s Honorable Mention in 2016[6], and other Bloom projects. He has also worked on Winnipeg-based ZenFri Inc.'s dystopian resource management game, The Last Taxi, Tampa-based tabletop roleplaying company Third Eye Games on a superhero RPG[7], and another Bloom intellectual property, Later Daters[8].
He was hired at Glad Day Bookshop, the world's oldest surviving LGBT bookstore, in 2017 and eventually took over managing the bookstore side of the business[9].
As an author, he has contributed a short story in Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt titled "To kill a god"[10] and self-published a chapbook of three short stories. Lyons published his debut novel, Murder at the World's Fair, on May 2, 2019.
Bibliography[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt, "To kill a god" (2017) Twopenny Books ISBN 9781527207776 Search this book on .
- Temple of Cats: Three tales of speculative fiction chapbook (2018)
- Lyons, MJ (2019). Murder at the World's Fair. Ottawa: Renaissance Press. p. 287. ISBN 9781987963540. Search this book on [11]
Games[edit]
- LongStory (Writer)
- AMP: Year Three (Writer)
- The Last Taxi (Interactive Writer)
- Later Daters (Writer)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Queer and Trans Teens Are Embracing This Mobile Dating Sim". Motherboard. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ↑ "fab Magazine". Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- ↑ "Contributor: Michael Lyons, Daily Xtra". Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- ↑ "The History Boys celebrate 100 columns". Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ↑ "Contributor: Michael Lyons, National Post". Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- ↑ "IMGA Jury's Honorable Mention – Longstory". IMGA. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ↑ "AMP: Year 3, The War of 2017 is Here! (Modern Supers RPG)". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ↑ "Later Daters: Entrant 2019". Independent Games Festival. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ↑ "Michael Lyons at Glad Day Bookstore shares the popular LGBTQ reads that are selling at his store". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
- ↑ "Clockwork Cairo Steampunk-Egypt Crossover Anthology Review". Steampunk Journal. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ↑ [ " "]. [[ ]], .
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