Jessica Amanda Salmonson

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

Salmonson's website, Violet Books, is a "domain for fans & collectors of literary ghost stories, Victorian science fiction." Salmonson is a frequent contributor to online news groups, often critiquing or criticizing others posts and creative works. She also maintains an extensive film blog [1] in which she reviews films of all kinds, art films to exploitation film, with coverage in particular of horror films, Japanese cinema, and Chinese cinema. Her third website is [2], a temperate gardening site on the web.

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[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


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