HeyJaredK.M.’s Substack
A place for my personal musings about fantasy, writing, culture, and cryptids, all from a Christian worldview.
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Reading used to be fun (opens the original)
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A while back, I read an article on substack that I can't find anymore. It was talking about this book series by Len Levinson called Rat Bastards. It's about a squad of unkillable misfits in WWII who do what soldiers do. I'm deep in revisions on my dinosaur military scifi, and I wasn’t happy with the combat scenes. They felt too … girl-written. I needed to read some testosterone. So I hunted up the first book, Hit the Beach. It's about Guadalcanal.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href
Disability rep in all the wrong places (opens the original)
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I don’t mind a hero with health problems. In fact, I really enjoy the occasional story of a character recovering from injury or illness, like the Secret Garden, or Guard in the Garden by Z.S. Diamanti. They can be uplifting and delightful to see the hero struggling with his own body failing him, like the wounded soldier in Keeper of the Bees.</p
The Aftermath: Hearts Invincible cover reveal (opens the original)
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A while back, I read this great book called the Shattered Ones, first book of the Aftermath trilogy.<img alt="" class="siz
Revenge of the writer (opens the original)
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I’ve had trouble coming up with anything to write lately that interested me. When I finished my After Atlantis series, it threw me for a loop. I haven’t published anything new in a couple of years now. I have multiple half-finished sequels sitting in my docs. I’ve started and stopped space opera, fairytale romances, sword and sorcery, hard scifi, you name it, I tried it.I thought for a while that I might try to write those Jane Austen fairytales that everyone writes. You know, the improper girl
Short attention spans and other myths (opens the original)
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My husband was watching a random livestream as I was folding laundry. It was one of the those variety shows like they used to have on the radio: people call in, ask questions, and the hosts talk about them for a while.Well, one of the questions fielded by the female host was about modern romance books. I didn’t hear the question, since it was in text. But she responded about how people have short attention spans, so they want to speed through all the buildup and just read the bed scenes. She the
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