Jensen’s always been a romance writer, and always a writer of romantic men. Getting back into games, the logical alternative, might not have wholly worked, but it clarified Jensen to her essential writing self. That had been so difficult, and for such little reward: surely that wasn’t what she was supposed to be doing? The frictionless speed with which Jensen has found success in this niche is the absolute inverse of her experience of writing Dante’s Equation. I wasn’t sorry to leave that behind.”įor now, anyway, Jensen is living her dream, as she originally dreamed it: she is a novelist whose books sell better than her games. And there was so much toxicity, especially toward female designers. About the time I completed Moebius, GamerGate broke. “I’ve come to love writing as Eli Easton,” she says, “ being part of a community you respect and enjoy is important too. She enjoys the kind of success and passionate audience that has eluded her since Gabriel Knight. It’s perfectly kinky while still being amazingly sweet.” “Died from shock after Eli Easton melted cold, black heart into a puddle of goo.” “Eli Easton dared, and I love her for that.” “Eli Easton, your readers need some butt sex and we need it yesterday."Īs Easton, Jensen attends conventions, does collaborations and guest stories in anthologies, and engages happily and often with her fans. Thousands of readers rate Easton’s novels on Goodreads, always highly: “I love Eli’s writing…. I’m more comfortable in the LGBTQ space where personalities and gender dynamics are in the middle.” It’s hard for me to write those kinds of characters from a place of truth. Most of my main characters are neither hyper-masculine nor hyper-feminine…. I tend to be most comfortable in that zone. “I was tested in a college psychology class once and my personality tested dead in the middle-androgynous. And, similarly, I don’t care for traditional gender dynamics,” she says. “I’m crap at writing very feminine female characters. Her romance writing eschews esoteric mystery and deadly stakes, but the characters and their voices are the same, and the boldness that expressed itself in Gabriel Knight as audacity and opera is felt here through unabashed intimacy and appreciation of pleasure.Īs a writer, Jensen’s always been more interested in her men-Gabriel Knight and David Styles are more sexual entities than their love interests-so it’s not wholly surprising this is where she should wind up exclusively focusing her gaze. Nothing this cool ever happened to me” and is absolutely of a piece with Jensen's past work. Billy and the Beast, an adaptation of guess what, reads like a gay retelling of Gray Matter (“There was something about him. I decided to try my hand at writing a few short stories and sent them to a publisher, who accepted them.” Since 2013, under the pen name Eli Easton, Jensen has written truly dozens of stories about gay romance-starring nerds, jocks, ex-military, sheriffs, angles, nurses, reclusive authors, Pennsylvania farmers, single dads, werewolves and Santa Claus-and now self-publishes, with a new title every few months. But I discovered gay romance and found it fun and intriguing. “I’d read some isolated things before - Anne Rice and gay fiction like Maurice. Travel the world using Malachi’s unique deductive powers to analyze suspects, make historical connections, and uncover the truth behind a theory of space and time the government will defend at any cost.“Around the time I was working on a design for Moebius, I began reading gay romance,” Jensen says. Moebius: Empire Rising is a contemporary adventure that merges classic point-and-click puzzle solving with Jane Jensen’s sophisticated storytelling. government hire him - a dealer of high-end antiques - to look into a foreign murder? Why does David Walker, a former Special Forces operative he meets in his travels, feel like someone Malachi’s known all his life? And how come every time Malachi lets his guard down, someone tries to kill him? When a secretive government agency enlists him to determine whether a murdered woman in Venice resembles any particular historical figure, Malachi is left with only questions. This thrilling new adventure game from master storyteller Jane Jensen ( Gabriel Knight, Gray Matter) and Phoenix Online Studios ( Cognition, The Silver Lining) introduces Malachi Rector, an expert in antiquities whose photographic memory and eye for detail transform people and clues into interactive puzzles.
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