Jade Eckert’s Bio
By Barenaked Lady
About Jade:
Jade Eckert was born on May 27, 1968, in St. Louis Missouri. She is the youngest of three children, one brother, Kelly and one sister, Kim. Jade was showered with attention. What kind of attention you ask? Her older siblings would play pranks and scare her. Neither one of them will deny putting a tape recorder under her bed with thirty minutes of dead air before the ghost noises started, or rigging a ghost on fishing wire to come out of the closet when she was just about asleep. Jade thanks the both of them for inspiring some of her writing. She was an art major at Missouri Western State University, but soon realized there was no money to be made in art. She chose to become a nurse and attended nursing school in her home state. She worked for years on a cancer floor before moving to an orthorpedics and neuro floor. She is the proud parent of two children, Sydney 18, and Lynden 12. She is currently living in Los Angeles, California.
About her work:
Life experiences, such as late night hospital shifts, influenced a lot of her writing. "Seeing a lot of death, twists a person some," she'll say. She grew up a fan of horror stories, the supernatural, and has been in one too many haunted houses. Those who know Jade best can easily pick out the personal aspects of her work, but those who don’t know her as well, can sense them too. Her wild and crazy imagination, combined with her personal experiences set the bar for great writing and storytelling.
Some of her work:
Jade has participated in Nanowrimo® for the last four years, and has also been chosen to write in Stephen King’s Valentine’s and Halloween stories. Her short story Blackness was published and nominated for a Derringer award. She didn't win but she'll tell you, "Hey, it's all about being nominated, right?"
Her Work
~Henry’s Fence
~Chains (in this months issue of N.V.H.)
~House of 10 Dogs
~Blackness (now a book)
~Stalk Her
~Had Baby
~Jet Lag-(sequel to Blackness)
**Some are works in progress.Coming Soon:
Chains- ''Deadly Dolls: Femme Fatales In Fright Fiction." Chains will also be in the NVF premiere anthology.
Henry's Fence -In October of 2008, SNM Anthology entitled “Bonded By Bloodâ€
Had Baby- will be in the Chimera World 5 Anthology, coming soon!
Blackness has a contract with Mystic Moon Press, and will be printed soon!!
Jade will also be interviewed in the August 28th issue of NVF magazine!
Friday the 13th Trailer
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