G. S. Jennsen

There are 23 novels in the Amaranthe universe (will be 25 total), and I get it - this sounds a little intimidating. It doesn't need to be; simply pick your poison of choice and dive in!

To build a sustained human presence on the Moon, we are building @NASAMoonBase, prioritizing surface operations and scalable infrastructure.  - Frequent robotic landings and mobility testing including MoonFall drones  - Starting in 2027 nearly monthly cadence of equipment and rovers with scientific payloads landing on the Moon.  - Investments in power, communications, and surface mobility  - Scalable infrastructure to support long-term human presence The objective is clear: build the foundation for an enduring lunar base and take the next step toward Mars.

@YuvalKordov Gorgeous cover!

One week to go! FYI, paperback will be available on release day. If you're the ebook type, be sure to pre-order. Because... why shouldn't you. Link to all the places in profile.

@DaveShapi Unfortunately, thanks to the concentration of power in the social media giants and the death of blogs, I fear stumbling around random internet pages won't be nearly as fascinating as it once was.

I first discovered this about two decades ago on StumbleUpon. There was a tiny and largely ineffective movement called "Masticate to Lose Weight" which showed that chewing more does indeed lead to fewer calories taken in. Also, activating the masseter muscle more does things to satiety and metabolic signals. Good old StumbleUpon. Maybe I could vibe code an Ai powered version.

@J0hnADouglas There are no words for how awful this looks....

Oh my sweet mercy, that’s one of the worst, most unconvincing wig jobs I’ve ever seen.

Happy 12th Book Birthday to STARSHINE, the not-so-little book that started this whole grand adventure for me. 🥳 I waxed philosophical about this journey back at the 10-year mark, but I don't believe I shared those thoughts here. So, better late than never: [Twelve] years ago today, I hit the ‘publish’ button on Starshine and unleashed Alex upon an unsuspecting public. At the time, I had no idea the impact this one act was going to have - on my life, on hers, on the multiverses of Amaranthe. But in the years that followed, a story about a starship pilot with dark red hair that came to me in the shower one morning (you’ve all heard that story by now) became so, so much more. Over the course of 2.5 million words(!), 23 novels and 10 short stories, it has transformed into an epic tale of humanity (and our allies) putting aside our squabbles to rise above our deepest fears and come together to do what we must to survive, then thrive. Amaranthe is, above all, an optimistic vision that dares to believe humanity will prove to be both stronger and better than we believe ourselves to be - and that’s the story I was driven to tell when I started typing on a keyboard ten years plus nine months ago…. It was the summer of 2013, I had no idea my life was soon to change. To be fair, it had already changed quite a bit. I’d walked away from a successful corporate legal career to seek a better life in the mountains of Colorado. I was doing freelance coding and editing work, desperately trying to reach a tiny fraction of the lofty heights of my former law firm salary. And all I wanted to do was write. I’d gotten back into fiction writing after a long absence from it about two years earlier, my creative tendencies having been nudged back to life by the imaginative worlds such video games as the Mass Effect trilogy, EVE Online and The Old Republic games offered. Now I started hearing whispers of a new manner of publishing and a new breed of writer: one who eschewed the old gatekeepers in New York and London and used the power of technology to share their books with the world—and the readers—directly. Already a computer geek, my ears perked up like a dog hearing the crinkle of a cheese wrapper, and a radical thought occurred to me: I could do this. The business and technical aspects of independent publishing, that was. I still had to write a book worth reading. So I got to work. It took me nine months to write, edit and prepare Starshine for release. I was still doing freelance work as well, because bills, but all my creative energy and free time, I threw into the book. I sold eight copies on release day. Of course, I’d given away the book for free to everyone who had subscribed to my website, which represented the sum total of my family, friends and existing readers from my fan fiction days, so, hey - eight brand new readers! Over the next ten days, I sold between two and six copies a day. Not half bad for a brand-new indie author no one had ever heard of, who had done everything from cover design to formatting to ‘marketing’ (lol) herself, but let’s not kid ourselves. The book wasn’t lighting the world on fire. Then I woke up the morning of April 3rd (the day after my birthday) to discover I had sold 20 copies overnight. I was elated, of course, though I had no idea the reason for the dramatic uptick in sales (to this day, I still don’t). By noon it was 74, and Starshine was #19 on the Space Opera Bestsellers list. Mere presence on such lists increases sales as a book becomes far more visible to browsing shoppers, so sales were now feeding on themselves. By the time I went to bed that night, Starshine was #4 in Space Opera and in the Top 500 of all books on Amazon. Fast forward twelve amazing years. Starshine has been read by over 350,000 people; twenty-three books on, so many of you are still here, as excited for the next adventure as you were for the first. I’ve heard from countless readers about how much the series has meant to them; I’ve made wonderful new friends and been enriched by their stories. I’ve had fantastic adventures myself (admittedly, many of these still happen in my own head). My life has changed, in the best ways possible, and it’s all because of you (with a small assist from Alex and Caleb and Miriam and Nika and their wonderful friends and families). Today, perhaps more than any other day, I’m so thankful to each and every one of you. Thank you for allowing me to write for a living, and for sharing this incredible universe with me.

@EJFisch Now that is cool!

TFW you’re super gross after a killer sauna session but nonetheless get recognized from your author photo by a random gym employee in the locker room 🥹 Her: “Sorry to bother you, this is super random—do you by chance write books?” Me, internally: 😳🙌🏼✨👏🏼💅🏼 Me: “I sure do!” Her: “Okay because I was browsing for new things to read and came across your books and was like hey, I know that lady!”

@BaronDestructo No question here.

The search for our ship's Enforcer/Warrior begins! (The Sweet Sixteen+) Choose -

A simply beautiful film. By turns hilarious, endearing and inspirational. Just go see it. Help it make a billion dollars, so we get more quality entertainment like this.

@EJFisch Looks fantastic!

Ready to go 👍🏼

@ocean363 @BaronDestructo Fantastic one! It didn't come up in search for me.

@GSJennsen @BaronDestructo Oh but she does

The search for our ship's Enforcer/Warrior begins! (The Sweet Sixteen+) Choose -

There are 23 novels in the Amaranthe universe (will be 25 total), and I get it - this sounds a little intimidating. It doesn't need to be; simply pick your poison of choice and dive in!

dune 3 is only the "epic conclusion" because they're too scared to make a movie that's just two straight hours of a sandworm arguing with jason momoa

@GSJennsen Some queries end worlds.

Some sentences matter a great deal.

@NotionHQ Now this is a cool feature!

New block: Tabs 🗂️ Sometimes a page has a lot going on. Tabs let you organize it in a new way… no subpages, no mile-long scroll. Type /tabs to try it out (rolling out now).

Project Hail May (Lego version) is complete! It spins and shifts around as needed, and is a very cool design. The best part is, of course, Rocky; he's adorable. 6 days until I get to see the movie!

"trying to find a way to say it that doesn't feel so flat, but also without making it sound like a pretentious thesaurus has thrown up on my WIP" - now that's well said. 💯

The spatiotemporal scale of the universe dwarfs anything human, and small souls use this to make you feel tiny and irrelevant. Size and duration are not the only parameters that matter. The human brain is the most complex structure in the universe, and it is not even close. Your mind is capable of holding the immensity of the universe within it, an image that it can play with, expand, contract, turn around to look at from different angles, run forwards and backwards. The largest red supergiant in the cosmos cannot (so far as we know) do the same thing with the human mind. The universe itself is more complex than the human brain, of course, since it contains many human brains. That level of cosmic complexity tells you something about what the universe really is, which is not just scale, duration, distributions of mass, and flows of energy, and that in turn tells you something important about your own place and function in the universe, which is categorically not to stand there with your mouth open gawping at how tiny and insignificant you are.

@theDWshow Agreed.

@GSJennsen That's pretty much where I landed. If it went ahead, I had every finger crossed that for every disaster modern Hollywood makes, this would be one that actually worked. Because it's possible. There are still good shows being made. They're just rarer than usual these days.

Honestly? Sigh of relief from me. As much as I would love to see further Buffy adventures (though the show had a worthy ending), Hollywood is not currently in a state where it can do this story justice. And I was afraid whatever they produced would instead tarnish the reputation and memory of a truly special, seminal show. I'm sad for SMG, and I'm sure she would've poured her heart into the revival, but this is for the best. Let us love what we have, without ruining it by "updating it for modern audiences."