Bio

Jay hates biographies and would just put ‘neurodivergent deviant demiboy’ here if he had his way, the miserable old cunt. When he’s not doing his nails, forming emotional bonds with inanimate objects, or listening to techno and pretending he’s still twenty, he's guiding disadvantaged teens through an education system designed to perpetuate inequality and crush those who dare to dream different. 

He lives in Suffolk with his long-suffering wife, and works somewhere in a dark corner of Essex. Jay Klements is a nom de plume because the real Jay thinks having a pen name makes him mysterious and interesting. Mind you, he also believes wearing a rollneck jumper makes him edgy and subversive, so his judgement can hardly be trusted. Either way, 'Jay' is a more comfortably non-binary name than the one on his birth certificate.

Jay writes for catharsis, and is now on a mission to reanimate cyberpunk's neon-lit corpse with an injection of British dystopian grime. His first novel was a contemporary thriller, No Good Deed, which was published in 2019. Five years on he's reinvented himself as a pound-shop William Gibson, but new works remain slow to appear. That's not surprising. He's been called many things beginning with p, but prolific isn't one of them...

Favourite Books:

The Quantum Thief / Change Agent / Equations of Life / Accelerando / The Peripheral / Eversion / New Model Army / Gridlinked / Wool / The Water Knife / The Diamond Age

Favourite Music (this week):

Need To Feel Loved - Kastuvas

Straight To Heart - ALT BLK ERA

BLACK & BLUE - Ravenscoon & Jessy Covets

Wrap Yourself Around Me (ft. North) - D.O.D

Hypnotized - Marc Korn, Semitoo & HEAD & HEART

Drop It (Original Mix) - 3 Steps Ahead

Lalala - Wolverave

I Ain't Goin' Out Like That - BLACKGOLD & FEVER 333

Bloody Ass Shoes (Sped Up) - Project 98

Fast & Furious - DJ Gollum, Empyre One & Schusterjunge

Something (ft. Romy Dya) - HR Troels, Morty Simmons & Crystal Rock

Tsunami - Alok & Ely Oaks

Breach - Billain & Tasha Baxter

Big Jet Plane (Techno) - Tommy Rizzlah

Voodoo (Drum & Bass Edit) - Gorgon City

Restless - NGHTMRE, Liquid Stranger & Mougleta

Behind Blue Eyes - Braaheim, ILYAA & EMMY

Throw Down Let Go - Spor

Blame You - Nero

Favourite Films:

Children of Men / Logan / Threads / Elysium / Scum / Dirty Harry / John Wick 4 / War for the Planet of the Apes / The Equalizer / The Butterfly Effect / Con Air

Favourite Quotes:

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed, is here in my arms. Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm...

Loves:

My wife. Birds. Small victories. Unexpected kindness. Waking up and discovering I'm not dead yet.

Hates:

Testosterone