Jay Eales (in-universe)

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Jay Eales was, apparently, a mangaka and an award-winning journalist who worked for MiniJust sometime in the 20th century. He had been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award twice and had received the Adamtine Badge for Extreme Clever-Cloggery. (PROSE: Contributors ^[+]Loading...["Contributors (short story)"])

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Prior to being Jay Eales, he had been Duncan the Shining, a god of the Protoverse, and a "saggy-arsed Cybermen". When he eventually became Jay Eales, his career included being a magician who rivalled Mitchell and Webb and being a sales representative for the Airzone Corporation. (PROSE: Contributors ^[+]Loading...["Contributors (short story)"]) Jay once used elves to repair shoes in Northampton, then performed manual labour and policing. Through all these occupations, he worked on stories, (PROSE: Contributor Biographies ^[+]Loading...["Contributor Biographies (short story)"]) such as comics co-written with Alan Moore and Al Davison and for American Splendor. (PROSE: Contributors ^[+]Loading...["Contributors (short story)"])

Jay had also had dinner with Tim Bisley and Daisy Steiner, fought four Doctor Whos with Kurt "Nightcrawler" Wagner, and had, apparently, been the cause of Doctor Who's cancellation in 1989 by "fiendishly" editing a charity fanthology, Walking in Eternity, in the year 2000. Jay had also once been a head in a jar, but he recovered. (PROSE: Contributors ^[+]Loading...["Contributors (short story)"])

Jay and Lawrence attended Brenda Soobie's party in Las Vegas, 1967. There, Señor 105 taught the duo how to make paper aeroplanes. (PROSE: Party Fears Two ^[+]Loading...["Party Fears Two (short story)"])

It was uncertain if he ever lived in the City of the Saved, as he never learned how to die from Sister Death. (PROSE: Contributor Biographies ^[+]Loading...["Contributor Biographies (short story)"])

This is an in-universe version of Jay Eales. He appeared in PROSE: Contributors, a tongue-in-cheek, in-universe collection of biographies of the authors of PROSE: Burning with Optimism's Flames, though the in-universe versions of the authors ranged wildly from their real world counterparts. He appeared in PROSE: Party Fears Two, a short story that not only celebrated the anniversary of Iris Wildthyme, in the celebratory anthology Iris: Fifteen, but celebrated the talents of Obverse Books as a whole.