Jon DeCles

Jon DeCles has been writing professionally since 1964. He was known primarily as a short story writer until 1984 when his first novel appeared. Three years later he produced “The Particolored Unicorn,” (which has just been reprinted) a Science Fantasy which is the first volume of a projected twelve volume epic. The second volume, “Storm Wars!” is now in print, while the third volume, “The Revenge of the Countess,” is well begun. A collection of his short Science Fiction, Science Fantasy, and Fantasy, is also in the works.

In the early 1960s he was adopted as foster brother to Marion Zimmer Bradley and Paul Edwin Zimmer, and in the late 1960s married Diana L. Paxson; their son, Ian Michael Grey has also begun a literary career with the recent publication of his first stories.

When not at his mountain writing lodge he can be seen on stage doing character parts, the most celebrated of which is his portrayal of the young Mark Twain. In that capacity he was Dead Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Francisco in 1993, a convention which also honored Mary Shelly and H. G. Wells. He keeps good company, at least among dead people. In 2007 he essayed, for the first time, the role of Mr.Micawber, from “David Copperfield.” “The Particolored Unicorn,” is now available as a podcast, at http://unicorn.libsyn.com