Welcome to Mystery

Publisher Marketing: Brenna is a typical college student- facing all the stresses of class and family life, with a less than supportive boyfriend. Using writing as her escape- as so many people do, Bren finds herself meeting a Vivix- more specifically Brillian. If witches have familiars, writers have muses and Brillian definitely inspires- usually annoyance as he tends to say what Bren is thinking- before she's even finished the thought. As long as she'd been writing, her words had been creating a world, full of wondrous creatures like Brillian- and some not so wonderful creatures now hell bent on destroying the world and the good folks in it. Following Brillian into Mystery, she finds herself thrust into a war between the people she'll consider friends and those who stole the first characters she remembered fanning her writing flames- King Lexyvor & Savyn, his queen. Her pen brings her words to life, and the stories she writes within Mystery are only just starting. She desperately hopes her words and slowly growing confidence- can save the world she didn't realize she needed anymore. Yes, she had a simply average life, until the day everything turned upside down, inside out, and pear shaped. Bren's life will never be the same again. The question is, does she want it to be? Contributor Bio:  Lee, Janice Janice Lee is a writer, artist, editor, designer, curator, and scholar. Interested especially in the relationships between metaphors of consciousness, theoretical neuroscience, and experimental narrative, her creative work draws upon a wide variety of sources. Her obsessive research patterns lead her to making connections between the realms of technology, consciousness studies, design theory, the paranormal & occult, biological anthropology, psychology, and literary theory. Her work can be found in antennae, sidebrow, Action, Yes, Joyland, Luvina, Everyday Genius, elimae, Black Warrior Review, Peacock Online Review, and elsewhere. [See WRITING] She is the author of two highly acclaimed novels: KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), a multidisciplinary exploration of cyborgs, brains, and the stakes of consciousness; and Daughter (Jaded Ibis, May 2011). She also has several chapbooks Red Trees, Fried Chicken Dinner (Parrot/Insert Press, Forthcoming), and Other Worlds (Eohippus Labs, Forthcoming). She is currently at work on a collaboration about conspiracy theories, time travel, and the Catholic church, and a novel about the technological singularity, the Christian rapture, and the consciousness of God. She has presented scholarly papers on topics such as consciousness studies, psychology, theoretical neuroscience, and experimental narrative at various conferences internationally. She holds a BA in Literature/Writing (with minors in Biological Anthropology & Film Studies) from UCSD and an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and currently lives in Los Angeles where she is Co-Editor of the online journal [out of nothing], Co-Founder of the interdisciplinary arts organization Strophe (which houses the curated series Novum), Reviews Editor at HTMLGIANT, and Founder/CEO of POTG Design. Most recently, she was selected by John D'Agata as Black Warrior Review's Nonfiction Grand Prize Winner and she currently teaches Graphic Texts & Interface Culture at CalArts.