Richard Thomas asked Paul Michael Anderson:

Where did Jamais Vu come from, what prompted you to take on such a huge project?

Paul Michael Anderson Serious answer:

I wanted to edit something else--my first gig editing was 2012 TORN REALITIES--for more experience, and had been bugging Post Mortem Press's publisher Eric Beebe to do another anthology (I was a "creative consultant" to FEAR THE ABYSS--meaning, I hounding Harlan Ellison and, tangentially, wound up screaming at him when I thought he was someone else).

I wanted to do a crime antho--at least those were my nebulous thoughts before Beebe pinged me about working first as Acquisitions Editor for the 2014 line of books (basically, I reviewed and recommended 95% of the books Post Mortem Press published in the year of 2014) as a tryout for a magazine. The magazine was a compromise between doing no anthologies--which are hard financial burdens to bear, even for Big 5 publishers--and tons of anthos.

The magazine became JAMAIS VU and now I'm gray-haired.

Not-serious answer:

I didn't think I looked old enough and I wanted to do something that would really etch some wear into my face. I was tired of being carded for cigarettes.

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