If you're not sure who he was (I wasn't): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake > Joseph E. Lake, Jr. (b. June 6, 1964 -

If you're not sure who he was (I wasn't): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake > Joseph E. Lake, Jr. (b. June 6, 1964 - June 1, 2014) was a science fiction and fantasy writer. > ... > Lake publicly revealed his advanced case of colon cancer. He was diagnosed in April 2008, and it then "progressed from a single tumor to metastatic disease affecting the lung and liver, recurring after multiple surgeries and chemotherapy courses." He used crowd funding through YouCaring to pay for whole genome sequencing, towards the "small possibility that the results of such a test...may suggest a treatment path." Eventually, however, Lake succumbed to his illness on June 1, 2014.