J.A. Jablonski | Resolute Death out this fall!
@jajablonski.bsky.social
Indie author, multi-genre: Academic Mystery, Speculative SF, Magical Realism | Former academic & librarian | Style guide nerd | 🚫 AI | 🚫 auto follows | Alt Text used
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I've opened a starter pack for Academic Mystery Writers & Readers! 👩🎓👨🎓🎓 ✍️
⬇️ I needed 7 to begin, so if you see yourself on the list & would prefer not to be, plz let me know.
➡️ And if you'd like to join, ping me & I'll add you to the roster.
⚡📚 #AcademicMystery #CampusCrime
go.bsky.app/LVXibNt
⬇️ I needed 7 to begin, so if you see yourself on the list & would prefer not to be, plz let me know.
➡️ And if you'd like to join, ping me & I'll add you to the roster.
⚡📚 #AcademicMystery #CampusCrime
go.bsky.app/LVXibNt
September 18, 2026 at 2:35 PM
And the other two:
The campus police chief: Broadminded, Meticulous, Caring.
The college gardener: Reliable, Diligent, Down-the-line.
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#AcademicMystery
The campus police chief: Broadminded, Meticulous, Caring.
The college gardener: Reliable, Diligent, Down-the-line.
⚡️📚💙 🎓💀
#AcademicMystery
Prompt from Mastodon: Describe 3 personality strengths of your MC(s)?
The eccentric barista: Wit, Integrity, Steadfast.
The ex-hobo poet: Curiosity, Fair-mindedness, Determination.
The maps librarian: Loyalty, Ferocity, Discretion.
#CharacterDesign #WritingCommunity
#AcademicMystery
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The eccentric barista: Wit, Integrity, Steadfast.
The ex-hobo poet: Curiosity, Fair-mindedness, Determination.
The maps librarian: Loyalty, Ferocity, Discretion.
#CharacterDesign #WritingCommunity
#AcademicMystery
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September 18, 2026 at 12:45 PM
And the other two:
The campus police chief: Broadminded, Meticulous, Caring.
The college gardener: Reliable, Diligent, Down-the-line.
⚡️📚💙 🎓💀
#AcademicMystery
The campus police chief: Broadminded, Meticulous, Caring.
The college gardener: Reliable, Diligent, Down-the-line.
⚡️📚💙 🎓💀
#AcademicMystery
Prompt from Mastodon: Describe 3 personality strengths of your MC(s)?
The eccentric barista: Wit, Integrity, Steadfast.
The ex-hobo poet: Curiosity, Fair-mindedness, Determination.
The maps librarian: Loyalty, Ferocity, Discretion.
#CharacterDesign #WritingCommunity
#AcademicMystery
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The eccentric barista: Wit, Integrity, Steadfast.
The ex-hobo poet: Curiosity, Fair-mindedness, Determination.
The maps librarian: Loyalty, Ferocity, Discretion.
#CharacterDesign #WritingCommunity
#AcademicMystery
⚡️📚💙
September 18, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Prompt from Mastodon: Describe 3 personality strengths of your MC(s)?
The eccentric barista: Wit, Integrity, Steadfast.
The ex-hobo poet: Curiosity, Fair-mindedness, Determination.
The maps librarian: Loyalty, Ferocity, Discretion.
#CharacterDesign #WritingCommunity
#AcademicMystery
⚡️📚💙
The eccentric barista: Wit, Integrity, Steadfast.
The ex-hobo poet: Curiosity, Fair-mindedness, Determination.
The maps librarian: Loyalty, Ferocity, Discretion.
#CharacterDesign #WritingCommunity
#AcademicMystery
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A historical fiction writer friend recommended this to me. Not my genre jam but the from-two-eras POV is always fun. The first chapter is...pleasant, I guess. We'll see how it goes. (Anyone else read it? What did you think?)
📚💙 #HistoricalFiction #BookRecs
Citation in alt-text.
📚💙 #HistoricalFiction #BookRecs
Citation in alt-text.
September 18, 2026 at 12:11 PM
A historical fiction writer friend recommended this to me. Not my genre jam but the from-two-eras POV is always fun. The first chapter is...pleasant, I guess. We'll see how it goes. (Anyone else read it? What did you think?)
📚💙 #HistoricalFiction #BookRecs
Citation in alt-text.
📚💙 #HistoricalFiction #BookRecs
Citation in alt-text.
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Not exactly a revelation that reading builds grey matter, but a good reminder...
Reading for pleasure boosts memory, empathy and mental health | New Scientist
Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial cognitive benefits
www.newscientist.com
September 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Not exactly a revelation that reading builds grey matter, but a good reminder...
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Coming June 1st 2027, Ada Palmer's "And Loki In His Prison", the best Norse book I've ever read us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
And Loki in His Prison
From the award winning author of the Terra Ignota series comes And Loki in His Prison, an epic reimagining of the story of Loki, perfect for readers of Nicol...
us.macmillan.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Coming June 1st 2027, Ada Palmer's "And Loki In His Prison", the best Norse book I've ever read us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
After several day's worth of self-publishing administrative angst, a breakfast of banana bread with lemon black tea was perfect on this cool fall morning.
A clutch of different recipes can be found here: itsonly.recipes/search/banan...
#WriterStress #BananaBread #ComfortFood #WriterSky
A clutch of different recipes can be found here: itsonly.recipes/search/banan...
#WriterStress #BananaBread #ComfortFood #WriterSky
September 17, 2026 at 2:10 PM
After several day's worth of self-publishing administrative angst, a breakfast of banana bread with lemon black tea was perfect on this cool fall morning.
A clutch of different recipes can be found here: itsonly.recipes/search/banan...
#WriterStress #BananaBread #ComfortFood #WriterSky
A clutch of different recipes can be found here: itsonly.recipes/search/banan...
#WriterStress #BananaBread #ComfortFood #WriterSky
Just saw an Insta ad for an under-bed storage container that will let me "organize without compromise."
Like storage has principles attached now? (Who writes this stuff?)
#SnortLaugh 😂
Like storage has principles attached now? (Who writes this stuff?)
#SnortLaugh 😂
September 17, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Just saw an Insta ad for an under-bed storage container that will let me "organize without compromise."
Like storage has principles attached now? (Who writes this stuff?)
#SnortLaugh 😂
Like storage has principles attached now? (Who writes this stuff?)
#SnortLaugh 😂
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Cover reveal in my newsletter today! Small town PI Rod Gray sees people’s soul gardens — and this time, he’s tracking greed and a missing inheritance.
Coming October 29, 2026!
neve.substack.com/p/cover-reve...
#speculative #mystery #Booksky
Coming October 29, 2026!
neve.substack.com/p/cover-reve...
#speculative #mystery #Booksky
Cover Reveal 📚
for ONE FEELING AFTER ANOTHER
neve.substack.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Cover reveal in my newsletter today! Small town PI Rod Gray sees people’s soul gardens — and this time, he’s tracking greed and a missing inheritance.
Coming October 29, 2026!
neve.substack.com/p/cover-reve...
#speculative #mystery #Booksky
Coming October 29, 2026!
neve.substack.com/p/cover-reve...
#speculative #mystery #Booksky
Over on Tumblr the youngs are starting to freak out about getting old while here on Bsky, the mid-olds are having to deal with the deaths of beloved teachers, mentors, and literary and musical idols. Life is sure doing its life thing.
🧑🦰 🧓 🧑🦳 💀
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September 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Over on Tumblr the youngs are starting to freak out about getting old while here on Bsky, the mid-olds are having to deal with the deaths of beloved teachers, mentors, and literary and musical idols. Life is sure doing its life thing.
🧑🦰 🧓 🧑🦳 💀
🧑🦰 🧓 🧑🦳 💀
Psycholocally prepping for a day dealing with post office adventures, I read the chapter on space psychology in the Weinersmiths' A CITY ON MARS. Entertaining but also concerning. Of course we're not going to be able to colonize Mars (or even the Moon, I suspect), for a good long while.
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September 16, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Psycholocally prepping for a day dealing with post office adventures, I read the chapter on space psychology in the Weinersmiths' A CITY ON MARS. Entertaining but also concerning. Of course we're not going to be able to colonize Mars (or even the Moon, I suspect), for a good long while.
📚💙 🚀
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How cool is this? Looking forward to donating some fabric & maybe art tools.
#ArtThriftStore #ArtSupplies #crafting
www.tmj4.com/news/milwauk...
#ArtThriftStore #ArtSupplies #crafting
www.tmj4.com/news/milwauk...
Art supplies thrift store opens in Milwaukee. Some items cost just $0.10
An art supplies thrift store has recently opened its doors in Milwaukee. Magic Hands Creative Reuse sells items for as little as $0.10.
www.tmj4.com
September 16, 2026 at 9:39 AM
How cool is this? Looking forward to donating some fabric & maybe art tools.
#ArtThriftStore #ArtSupplies #crafting
www.tmj4.com/news/milwauk...
#ArtThriftStore #ArtSupplies #crafting
www.tmj4.com/news/milwauk...
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Exactly. "Sandbox" my arse. It's only the public and media's ignorance about how all things computer actually work that prevents the AI industry's mix of incompetence, Machiavellian profiteering, and techbro fanboy fantasy-think being obvious.
If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?"
September 13, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Exactly. "Sandbox" my arse. It's only the public and media's ignorance about how all things computer actually work that prevents the AI industry's mix of incompetence, Machiavellian profiteering, and techbro fanboy fantasy-think being obvious.
Love how the energy of certain books keeps on vibrating weeks after I've finished reading them. Madeline Miller's CIRCE and Jess Kidd's MURDER AT GULLS NEST are having that effect on me now.
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Citations in alt-text.
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Citations in alt-text.
September 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Love how the energy of certain books keeps on vibrating weeks after I've finished reading them. Madeline Miller's CIRCE and Jess Kidd's MURDER AT GULLS NEST are having that effect on me now.
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Citations in alt-text.
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Citations in alt-text.
Four kids' books were shared in to our #StreetLibrary this week! Plus 2 Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries by Midwest author Patricia Skalka and a boxed, audiobook cassette recording of P.D. James' A CERTAIN JUSTICE.
📚💙 ⚡️📚 #LittleFreeLibrary
📚💙 ⚡️📚 #LittleFreeLibrary
September 12, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Four kids' books were shared in to our #StreetLibrary this week! Plus 2 Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries by Midwest author Patricia Skalka and a boxed, audiobook cassette recording of P.D. James' A CERTAIN JUSTICE.
📚💙 ⚡️📚 #LittleFreeLibrary
📚💙 ⚡️📚 #LittleFreeLibrary
Allergic to fresh citrus, so no lovely lemonade for me. And like any proper writer, I needs me some caffeine, but coffee riles my stomach. Regular black tea is ok, but a bit boring after a while. So it was lovely to discover this version of tea. Wonderful iced too. 🍋☕️
(Not a paid endorsement, btw.)
(Not a paid endorsement, btw.)
September 12, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Allergic to fresh citrus, so no lovely lemonade for me. And like any proper writer, I needs me some caffeine, but coffee riles my stomach. Regular black tea is ok, but a bit boring after a while. So it was lovely to discover this version of tea. Wonderful iced too. 🍋☕️
(Not a paid endorsement, btw.)
(Not a paid endorsement, btw.)
Don't worry about the 'blocked' item... the rest of this thread is wonderful.
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THIS is why I bother shopping at the mall down the hill from my apartment. THIS is why I avoid buying from Amazon or online retailers as much as I can. THIS is why I enjoy working as a manager at a shoe store. It is a genuine JOY to get to shop, and to help people shop, and we need to preserve it
But when shopping, I encourage you to consider the total package. Sometimes you're not just buying a product, but also good service, a fun day, and a memory.
After all, it's through shopping at these places that they will continue to exist.
Video: Creutz in Nice, France (IG thenorejectionguy)
After all, it's through shopping at these places that they will continue to exist.
Video: Creutz in Nice, France (IG thenorejectionguy)
September 12, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Don't worry about the 'blocked' item... the rest of this thread is wonderful.
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Wow. The Who's Who thing is a blast from the past--they were a big email and snail mail pest in the 2000s. I wrote about them in 2007--one of my most commented-upon posts ever.
September 11, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Wow. The Who's Who thing is a blast from the past--they were a big email and snail mail pest in the 2000s. I wrote about them in 2007--one of my most commented-upon posts ever.
Total snort-laughing here at the latest spam/scam emails I've received. One inviting me to submit my application for Who's Who In America. And two inviting me to apply for associate professor positions in Nursing and Political Science. (My fields are English Lit and Information Studies.) 😆
September 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Total snort-laughing here at the latest spam/scam emails I've received. One inviting me to submit my application for Who's Who In America. And two inviting me to apply for associate professor positions in Nursing and Political Science. (My fields are English Lit and Information Studies.) 😆
Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not.
Here's mine:
Summer 2013
An old raven soars over the historical Old Quad of Osley College; Ferguson he's been dubbed, one of eight ravens who safeguard the institution.
Here's mine:
Summer 2013
An old raven soars over the historical Old Quad of Osley College; Ferguson he's been dubbed, one of eight ravens who safeguard the institution.
Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not.
Here's mine
London, 7th January 1928
Under normal circumstances, a newly-married couple would have better things to do just after midnight than be outside photographing the rising water of the Thames in the tail end of a storm.
Here's mine
London, 7th January 1928
Under normal circumstances, a newly-married couple would have better things to do just after midnight than be outside photographing the rising water of the Thames in the tail end of a storm.
Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not.
from the current work:
"Jean-Marie stood between his mother and Edouard, hoping that the man would not see the way Maman held her sickle."
from the current work:
"Jean-Marie stood between his mother and Edouard, hoping that the man would not see the way Maman held her sickle."
September 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not.
Here's mine:
Summer 2013
An old raven soars over the historical Old Quad of Osley College; Ferguson he's been dubbed, one of eight ravens who safeguard the institution.
Here's mine:
Summer 2013
An old raven soars over the historical Old Quad of Osley College; Ferguson he's been dubbed, one of eight ravens who safeguard the institution.
Love seeing Wisconsin writers using our region as their settings! #preorder
💫Direct from the Author Exclusive!💫
Historical Romance in the 1840s! from The Erie Canal and a radical boarding school for Black girls, to Milwaukee, an upstart western town in Wisconsin Territory...
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Historical Romance in the 1840s! from The Erie Canal and a radical boarding school for Black girls, to Milwaukee, an upstart western town in Wisconsin Territory...
Preorder & full book info here👉 louisemayberry.com/products/the...
September 11, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Love seeing Wisconsin writers using our region as their settings! #preorder
Adding Fiona Erskine (fionaerskine.com)
to the dinner guest list!
And here are the links to the other fierce writers.
🔥✍️🏼 ⚡️📚 💀
Deanna Raybourn
www.deannaraybourn.com
Amy Bloom
www.amybloom.com
Layne Fargo
www.laynefargo.com
Jess Kidd
jesskidd.com
Margot Douaihy
www.margotdouaihy.com
to the dinner guest list!
And here are the links to the other fierce writers.
🔥✍️🏼 ⚡️📚 💀
Deanna Raybourn
www.deannaraybourn.com
Amy Bloom
www.amybloom.com
Layne Fargo
www.laynefargo.com
Jess Kidd
jesskidd.com
Margot Douaihy
www.margotdouaihy.com
Based on their badass, kickass, crime-fighting ladies alone, these are the mystery authors I want at my dinner table:
Deanna Raybourn
Amy Bloom
Layne Fargo
Jess Kidd
Margot Douaihy
The conversation would be fantastic!
⚡️📚 🍽 💪 ♀️
Deanna Raybourn
Amy Bloom
Layne Fargo
Jess Kidd
Margot Douaihy
The conversation would be fantastic!
⚡️📚 🍽 💪 ♀️
September 11, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Adding Fiona Erskine (fionaerskine.com)
to the dinner guest list!
And here are the links to the other fierce writers.
🔥✍️🏼 ⚡️📚 💀
Deanna Raybourn
www.deannaraybourn.com
Amy Bloom
www.amybloom.com
Layne Fargo
www.laynefargo.com
Jess Kidd
jesskidd.com
Margot Douaihy
www.margotdouaihy.com
to the dinner guest list!
And here are the links to the other fierce writers.
🔥✍️🏼 ⚡️📚 💀
Deanna Raybourn
www.deannaraybourn.com
Amy Bloom
www.amybloom.com
Layne Fargo
www.laynefargo.com
Jess Kidd
jesskidd.com
Margot Douaihy
www.margotdouaihy.com
My weekend reading.
Link to Doctorow's comments about his book on his website here: craphound.com/podcast/2026...
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Link to Doctorow's comments about his book on his website here: craphound.com/podcast/2026...
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September 11, 2026 at 12:27 PM
My weekend reading.
Link to Doctorow's comments about his book on his website here: craphound.com/podcast/2026...
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Link to Doctorow's comments about his book on his website here: craphound.com/podcast/2026...
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A writerly friend was visiting this week & asked for an ARC of my forthcoming #AcademicMystery! How cool is that?! 😄
(Will be posting about needing a few more ARC readers/reviewers soon, so stay tuned.) 🧑🏼🎓💀📚
#WritingCommunity #BookReviews #AcademicSky #PhDSky
(Will be posting about needing a few more ARC readers/reviewers soon, so stay tuned.) 🧑🏼🎓💀📚
#WritingCommunity #BookReviews #AcademicSky #PhDSky
September 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
A writerly friend was visiting this week & asked for an ARC of my forthcoming #AcademicMystery! How cool is that?! 😄
(Will be posting about needing a few more ARC readers/reviewers soon, so stay tuned.) 🧑🏼🎓💀📚
#WritingCommunity #BookReviews #AcademicSky #PhDSky
(Will be posting about needing a few more ARC readers/reviewers soon, so stay tuned.) 🧑🏼🎓💀📚
#WritingCommunity #BookReviews #AcademicSky #PhDSky
Save Harriet!! Pre-order!
(I'll be asking my public library to order it as well!)
⚡️📚 #SupportYourLibrary
(I'll be asking my public library to order it as well!)
⚡️📚 #SupportYourLibrary
Pre-orders do matter! Retailers, especially B&N look at pre-orders to help determine IF and HOW MANY of a book they will stock. B&N now buys centrally. Meaning, if you're in, you're in all stores. And if you're out ... well that's a bummer. Save Harriet from a bummer experience and pre-order now!
September 10, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Save Harriet!! Pre-order!
(I'll be asking my public library to order it as well!)
⚡️📚 #SupportYourLibrary
(I'll be asking my public library to order it as well!)
⚡️📚 #SupportYourLibrary