Jay hates biographies and would just put ‘neurodivergent deviant demiboy’ here if he had his way, the miserable old cunt. When he’s not doing his nails, forming emotional bonds with inanimate objects, or listening to drum'n'bass and pretending he’s still twenty, he's guiding disadvantaged teens through an education system designed to perpetuate inequality and crush those who dare to dream different.
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:
Top ten from the "If I listen to this shit, I really can pretend I'm twenty again" playlist:
Voodoo (Drum & Bass Edit) - Gorgon City
All Night (ft. DeathByRomy) - NGHTMRE & Rezz
So Much In Love (Sub Focus remix) - D.O.D
Breach - Billain & Tasha Baxter
Breathe - Kastuvas
Say It Right - Macon & Enny-Mae
It's Time - Sub Focus & Gene Farris
Unforgiven - Joe Ford & KNARS
R U Guna Move - Venjent
Gravity (ft. Evokings & Magga) - Cat Dealers
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
