Spent all day figuring out the formatting on KDP 😵‍💫 finally have a proof copy of my hardcover on the way

Sitting at the library, pick up a @joeabercrombie.com off the shelf to peruse “How many splinters did the elves break God?”

…fffffucking hell, okay, that’s a hook and a half 🤯

First batch of my book is printed and ready to sell!

Wrote more today, word count is up to 1k

Wrote 400 words today on my new manuscript

It’s a Sleep Token day

A moment in days long past

Me holding my author copy of When the Moon Hits Your Eyes

You know, last year when I wrote a book about the moon turning into cheese, I didn't know that when it came out the most fantastical thing about it would be a functional US government

Everyone’s a reader, they just need to find the right book

I was in Afghanistan in 2016, and had no idea that idiot would invite the people who wanted to kill me and my team to Camp David a couple years later

Fuck you, TurboTax. That is all

Queen of Swords Press book table in a converted industrial space. Blonde woman with short hair in patterned shirt extending her arms over the books.

And we’re set up! Come see us! #Booksky

Cover of The Wolf and the Wild King by K.V. Johansen. Digital painting also by K.V. Johansen. A winter scene: snow, night, the sky streaked by northern lights. A black wolf, head lowered, warily approaches a sword (of the Carolingian or “Viking” style) leaning against the trunk of a large, ancient, bare-branched tree. The snow is deep, but crusty, with only a thin fresh fall over the crust, disturbed the wolf’s feet. The pommel of the sword is a single, rounded, opaque, deep-blue stone mounted in claws. Dark conifers line the horizon.

I did my own cover art (for various reasons) for The Wolf and the Wild King, which came out from Mystique last November. I was aiming for something a bit more Post-Impressionist than I managed, but I'm reasonably pleased with it. Painted in Krita; my late dog was the model for the wolf.

My novel available in hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook.

A graphic of the book When They Arrived with tropes listed in orange text around the book with pink arrows. Orange texts read: it's the future, aliens, true AI no GenAI here, sentient trees, woke AF, multiple POVs including LGBTQ+, pronoun guide, many cultures and beliefs, and hopepunk.

My book that came out in November. I also made the cover for it myself, and I'm pretty proud of that.

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What You Have Tamed (Flame and Glory Saga Book 1) What You Have Tamed (Flame and Glory Saga Book 1) - Kindle edition by Rose, Jim. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading What You Have Tamed (Flame and Glory Saga Book 1).

My first novel: a coming of age, dysfunctional, competitive romance in a sci-fi setting, titled What You Have Tamed

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A physical copy of my debut novel “What You Have Tamed” is available at Second Reads Books in St Augustine!

Things I need to get better at as a writer: having an elevator pitch ready when someone asks what my book’s about instead of a blank stare paired with, “Oh. Fuck.”

Not much to celebrate lately, but this is special because even the Stoker long list is a big honor and the company is absolutely spectacular. Congrats to these amazing authors.

Being Autistic isn’t an excuse for giving a n*zi salute.

Like this if you love books or think Elon can go fuck himself.

Already at writing group

Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"

Historians: "that's a nazi salute"

Average person: "that's a nazi salute"

The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

Also, it was a fuckin Nazi salute come the fuck on

Reminder to those who need it:

1. You can mute the name of the current president and/or anyone else you don't want to constantly hear about here

2. You can mute/block/unfollow accounts that impinge on your calm

3. Social media doesn't have to be a doom scroll, curate your feed to make you happy

I need to delete my twitter. Muscle memory moves my thumb to open the floodgates of aneurisms and headaches

UPDATE: DONE THANK CHRIST

The Shattering Peace, book seven of the Old Man's War series. 80,008 words.

I am very tired.