J. B. Garner 🏳️‍⚧️

Announcement time! A new pen name for me to go along with the cover reveal of my next book through Ginger Blue Publishing: Songs & Sorcery by Emelia Quantrelle, the first of many Tales of the Walled City to come! More details to come soon.

Let's hear it for @JBGarner_Writes, writing as Emelia Quantrille. Her new novel, SONGS & SORCERY, is on sale TODAY on the 'Zon. It's a #fantasy #mystery featuring a fabulous walled city & a murderer who kills with pleasure. I bought my copy. How about you? amazon.com/Songs-Sorcery-…

It's my (and @BebeBayliss's) book birthday today (well, for a few more minutes)! Go get your copy of Something Wicked right now! Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0D9BV1BMX/… B&N.com: barnesandnoble.com/.../something.… Kobo: kobo.com/us/en/ebook/so… Apple Books: books.apple.com/.../something-…

The READ THIS! Author Q&A featuring moi & @BebeBayliss is THIS Thursday. Plus today is both a post & pre book birthday, so check it all out @ the Blah, Blah, Blah Blog! ginikoch.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-re… @jag4a @MuseEnabler @TGGeeks

The READ THIS! Author Q&A featuring moi & @BebeBayliss is THIS Thursday. Plus today is both a post & pre book birthday, so check it all out @ the Blah, Blah, Blah Blog! ginikoch.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-re… @LianaBrooks @Jean_Marie_Ward @JBGarner_Writes @ElleEIre @bentateauthor @AShvartsman

One of my best friends just started this great project on @Kickstarter! Check it out and support, like I did! kickstarter.com/projects/gold-…

@tpwrtrmnky "Male socialization" for me was constant confusion over why these people supposedly like me were acting the way they were and why they were all so mean to their friends. Life-long confusion sucks, so glad to be free of that.

"Your identity is valid but your past being raised as a man still matters" trans girl whose memories from before HRT are a sort of unreal haze: uh huh. how interesting. sure. yeah. okay. cool beans.

The price of eggs and gas is worth more to them than a million disaffected lives. More than civil rights. More than the dignity of their women in their lives. Maybe more than their own, less tangible things. I'm not sure any more how to combat that.

But they don't have the capacity to empathize beyond that. They say they do. But the moment their personal interests are the least impacted - or even if they get a whiff of a chance for personal gain - they will shut down that empathy and act to their selfish desires.

A hard lesson I've learned, especially hard as I'm an idealist in many ways, is that the majority of people act selfishly, only with care to their own immediate needs. They MIGHT extend that care to their immediate families. MAYBE. 🧵

2016, I could understand a little. Trump was more of an unknown politically and had the facade of reality TV. But to elect him in 2024, after he's shown his true face, had his crimes exposed, been convicted of multiple felonies? There's no understanding or forgiveness of that.

It is jarring af to be reminded how much your country hates you on such a regular basis. Like to be Black, to be queer, to be trans, to be a woman… you know there are far too many people who hate you more than they love themselves.

@DevotionOath I'd love a suit of armor, I won't lie. Especially these days.

PUT THEM IN ARMOUR. THEY NEED PROTECTION

Did the thing!

Still available for advance review on NetGalley until 11/30! (If you have issues getting it there, please let someone know? We're getting some odd stats.)

November's READ THIS! Book of the Month announced (hint: you for sure know the author ;-D), lots of Yapping going on, & more at the Blah, Blah, Blah Blog! ginikoch.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-no… @criticion @JBGarner_Writes @EuniceMagill @buckeyegirl31 @MuseEnabler @TGGeeks @DuncanBooks

Evelynn is a friend of mine, so if you've got an interest and a good eye, see about helping her out!

@Kougaon_ The twins, Wuk Lamat, G'raha Tia, though I think the Scions overall are well done.

For no particular reason at all what so ever (: tell me your favorite ffxiv character or characters

@sparrowvtuber Congrats!

Well, I did it. Right up to my own personal deadline, but I did it. ~90k words / 330+ pages and my third book is finally done! 😨