Jessica Amanda Salmonson

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Jessica Amanda Salmonson, born January 6, 1950, is an American author, editor and scholar of fantasy and horror fiction. She is best known as the author of the Tomoe Gozen trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai, and as the editor of the groundbreaking anthologies Amazons! and Amazons! II.

Salmonson's website, Violet Books, is a "reference-rich domain for fans & collectors of literary ghost stories, Victorian science fiction, Yellow Nineties Decadence, H. Rider Haggard & haggardesque 'Lost Race' novels, Marie Corelli & other occult romancers, Rafael Sabatini & Jeffery Farnol & all vintage swashbuckling historical romances, westerns, Yukon adventures, jungle tales, Sax Rohmer & all weird thrillers, classic detectives, vintage children's & young adult fantasies & series books, & all things old, fictional, adventurous, & weird — old genre books of a numerous & vintage type."

Jessica also maintains an extensive film blog [1] in which she reviews films of all kinds, art films to exploitation film, with excellent coverage in particular of horror films, Japanese cinema, Chinese cinema, and such unusual areas as early cinema of the Edison and Mileas era, soundies, black cast "race" films, burlesque films, Betty Boop and other animation, and independent short subjects. There's also a lot of coverage of swordswomen characters in world cinema which ties the website thematically to her fantasy novels and tales. Her third website is [2], the world's largest temperate gardening site on the web.

Contents 1 Select bibliography 1.1 Tomoe Gozen 1.2 Other novels 1.3 Collections 1.4 Non-fiction 1.5 Edited

[edit] Select bibliography

[edit] Tomoe Gozen

• Tomoe Gozen (1981) (revised as The Disfavored Hero (1999))
• The Golden Naginata (1982)
• Thousand Shrine Warrior (1984)

[edit] Other novels

• The Swordswoman (1982)
• Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman (1985)
• Anthony Shriek, His Doleful Adventures; or, Lovers of Another Realm (1992)

[edit] Collections

• Hag's Tapestry (1986)
• A Silver Thread of Madness (1989)
• John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head (1989)
• Harmless Ghosts (1990)
• Mystic Women (1991)
• The Mysterious Doom & Other Ghostly Tales of the Pacific Northwest (1992)
• Wisewomen & Boggy-Boos: A Dictionary Of Lesbian Fairy Lore (1992) (with Jules Remedios Faye)
• The Eleventh Jaguarundi and Other Mysterious Persons (1995)
• Phantom Waters: Northwest Legends of Rivers, Lakes & Shores (1995)
• Mister Monkey and Other Sumerian Fables (1995)
• Twenty-one Novels (2002)
• The Dark Tales (1991)
• The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic (2003)

[edit] Non-fiction

• The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Present Era (1991)

[edit] Edited

• Amazons! (1979)
• Amazons II (1982)
• Heroic Visions (1983)
• Tales by Moonlight (1983)
• Heroic Visions II (1985)
• Tales by Moonlight II (1989)