Author Jaime Lee Moyer unexpectedly passed away in late February, confirmed after concerned friends sent a wellness check to her home in East Lansing, Michigan on February 29, 2024.
Moyer was the author of the Delia Martin trilogy, starting with 2013’s Delia’s Shadow and followed in the subsequent two years by A Barricade in Hell and Against a Brightening Sky. Since then, she published the novel Brightfall—a reimagining of the tale of Robin Hood and Maid Marian—in 2019, Divine Heretic—a take on the Joan of Arc story—in 2020, Youngest in 2021, and Disposable Son in 2022. Her last book, A Parliament of Queens—a story about three women who share the throne in a medieval-esque world—came out a couple of weeks ago on February 21, 2024.
Moyer was from Fremont, California, and studied at Ohlone College as well as Mt. San Antonio College in Texas. She had recently moved to East Lansing.
“Writing is not for the timid or faint of heart,” Moyer wrote in a 2013 article for Writer’s Digest. “I can’t flinch or pull back because writing something is ‘hard’ or painful, and take the easy way around. If anything, that means I have to write what’s making me flinch and give it my all. The difficult and the painful bits of a story are what make it real. And I can’t be afraid of what others will think about what I write, or that a reader might equate a character’s thoughts and actions with mine.”
Moyer was a friend and supporter of many in the fantasy community, who were devastated to hear of her passing. She will be missed.
