You can edit almost every page by Creating an account. Otherwise, see the FAQ.

M.J. Lyons

From EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki




M.J. Lyons
BornMichael Joseph Lyons
(1988-09-08) September 8, 1988 (age 35)
New Brunswick, Canada
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian
GenreScience fiction, steampunk, history
Notable awardsLGBT Youthline Award 2012 for Outstanding Contribution to Art and Culture
Years active2010-present
Website
michaellyonswrites.wordpress.com

Download books of M.J. Lyons or buy them on amazon



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. 1.0 1.1 "Queer and Trans Teens Are Embracing This Mobile Dating Sim". Motherboard. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  2. "fab Magazine". Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  3. "Contributor: Michael Lyons, Daily Xtra". Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  4. "The History Boys celebrate 100 columns". Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  5. "Contributor: Michael Lyons, National Post". Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  6. "IMGA Jury's Honorable Mention – Longstory". IMGA. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  7. "AMP: Year 3, The War of 2017 is Here! (Modern Supers RPG)". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  8. "Later Daters: Entrant 2019". Independent Games Festival. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  9. "Michael Lyons at Glad Day Bookstore shares the popular LGBTQ reads that are selling at his store". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  10. "Clockwork Cairo Steampunk-Egypt Crossover Anthology Review". Steampunk Journal. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  11. [ " "]. [[ ]], .

External links[edit]

References[edit]


This article "M.J. Lyons" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:M.J. Lyons. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.