Jay Wolf is a freelance developmental editor and book designer, and the editor of the romantic sword & sorcery anthology Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes.Alum of the Viable Paradise Speculative Fiction Writer's Workshop, and one of the myriad Submissions Editors in the slush mines at Uncanny Magazine, Jay also writes, illustrates, and publishes fiction as M. Daniel McDowell.As M. Daniel McDowell: the author of several adventure fantasies, including the gay sword & sorcery romance novella Beneath the Shattered Gods and the Song of the Scourgelands series, beginning with the SPFBO 10 Semi-Finalist, Bringer of the Scourge.