HeyJaredJohn A Douglas
John is an independently published fantasy author, video content creator, and article writer.
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Rooftop Korean: Memoir of the 1992 L.A. Riots by Tony Moon | Review (opens the original)
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Your Work is Worthless...How to Fix It (opens the original)
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I know, I know, clickbaity title aside, let’s talk about our work as Indies, be it books, comics, or whatever. Settle in for story time.When you first hit THE END on your work, there’s a sense of catharsis and relief. You’re done! You did it! You wrote an entire book! Or you got a comic assembled and ready for the masses. Done filming that youtube video you worked so hard on. You feel accomplished but deep down you internalize on an immutable fact: <a class="image-link image2" href="https://subs
The Worst Books I’ve Ever Read (opens the original)
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In my 30 years of reading, you can count the books I actually hate on the fingers of two hands.And here they are.I originally meant to make this a video for my youtube channel, but the channel is gone. The list, however, remained in my memory. Generally speaking, I enjoy most of the books I read and it’s one reason why I don’t really assign a score to them. I enjoy The Seventh Cadence and I enjoy Theft of Fire and I enjoy The Hellborn King, but I enjoy all of them for entirely different reasons.
Authors Selling to Authors is a Lie (opens the original)
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The online discourse in and around “writing communities” is always going to stir up something the longer one sits in or around them. As with almost any online or real-life group, drama inevitably rears its ugly head, but that’s an issue for another day. But in the author/aspiring author spaces on social media, a certain notion has begun to pop off that these places are just authors selling to other authors.Its technically true, but at the same time it’s also a falsehood due to misunderstanding w
Ratchet’s Run | Review (opens the original)
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Go on, take the money and run.In continuing my reviews of the Land & Sea military sci-fi universe by the intrepid Blaine Lee Pardoe, we come to the first divergence in the primary storyline, but also what represents something important in long-running series: a different jumping on point. While I wholeheartedly recommend reading the first trilogy of books (Splashdown, Riptides, and Storm Surge) to see where it all begins, Blaine certainly understands that not everyone wants to go balls deep into
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