He lives in Suffolk with his long-suffering wife, and works somewhere in a dark corner of Essex. Jay Klements is a nom de plume because the real Jay thinks having a pen name makes him mysterious and interesting. Mind you, he also believes wearing a rollneck jumper makes him edgy and subversive, so his judgement can hardly be trusted. Either way, 'Jay' is a more comfortably non-binary name than the one on his birth certificate.
Jay writes for catharsis, and is now on a mission to reanimate cyberpunk's neon-lit corpse with an injection of British dystopian grime. His first novel was a contemporary thriller, No Good Deed, which was published in 2019. Five years on he's reinvented himself as a pound-shop William Gibson, but new works remain slow to appear. That's not surprising. He's been called many things beginning with p, but prolific isn't one of them...
Favourite Books:
The Quantum Thief / Change Agent / Equations of Life / Accelerando / The Peripheral / Eversion / New Model Army / Gridlinked / Wool / The Water Knife / The Diamond Age
Favourite Music (this week):
Something (ft. Romy Dya) - HR Troels, Morty Simmons & Crystal Rock
Tsunami - Alok & Ely Oaks
Breach - Billain & Tasha Baxter
Big Jet Plane (Techno) - Tommy Rizzlah
Voodoo (Drum & Bass Edit) - Gorgon City
Restless - NGTHMRE, Liquid Stranger & Mougleta
Behind Blue Eyes - Braaheim, ILYAA & EMMY
Throw Down Let Go - Spor
Tremors (Bounce Edit) - Spencer Ramsay
Blame You - Nero
Favourite Films:
Children of Men / Logan / Threads / Elysium / Scum / Dirty Harry / John Wick 4 / War for the Planet of the Apes / The Equalizer / The Butterfly Effect / Con Air
Favourite Quotes:
All I ever wanted, all I ever needed, is here in my arms. Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm...
Loves:
My wife. Birds. Small victories. Unexpected kindness. Waking up and discovering I'm not dead yet.
Hates:
Testosterone
