I had the opportunity to sit down with J.M. The novel, Frey’s first, was released in April of 2011 and has been amassing positive reviews like a Katamari ever since, one of the shiniest being a starred Publisher’s Weekly review calling it a “deeply satisfying debut.” It is a science fiction novel in the most unambiguous sense, with spaceships and aliens and time travel, but the thing that makes it truly stand out is a love story that is deeply affecting and thoroughly human, for all that one of the paramours is not human at all. Frey you are doing yourself a disservice. You can follow her research blog here. Her digital-only queer time-travel novel A Woman of the Sea was named a winner of the 2019 WATTY AWARD for Historical Fiction, and published as The Woman Who Fell Through Time in 2020.If you haven’t read Triptych by J.M.

She was the grateful recipient of a Toronto Arts Council Grant in 2018, and is enjoying the ability to really dig into the research needed for the project.

The Skylark’s Saga was signed to a shopping agreement for an animation series in 2018. The Skylark’s Song, book one of The Skylark’s Saga, a steampunk action novel about a girl vigilante and her mysterious rocketpack, soared into book stores in 2018, and was followed up by The Skylark’s Sacrifice in September 2019. Her sophomore novel, an epic-length feminist meta-fantasy titled The Untold Tale, (book one of the Accidental Turn Series), debuted December 2015, and was followed up by The Forgotten Tale in 2016 and The Silenced Tale in December 2017. Her debut novel Triptych was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards, won the San Francisco Book Festival award for SF/F, was nominated for a 2011 CBC Bookie, was named one of The Advocate’s Best Overlooked Books of 2011, and garnered both a starred review and a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly. She’s played everything from Marmee to the Red Queen, Jane Eyre to Annie, and dozens of strange creatures and earnest heroines as a voice actor. J.M.’s also a professionally trained actor who takes absolute delight in weird stories, over the top performances, and quirky characters.

Her life’s ambition is to have stepped foot on every continent (only 3 left!) She also has an addiction to scarves, Doctor Who, and tea, which may or may not all be related. With an MA in Communications and Culture, she’s appeared in podcasts, documentaries, and on radio and television to discuss all things geeky through the lens of academia. is an author, screenwriter, and lapsed academic.

Triptych by J.M. Frey