Jim C. Hines

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This is first draft material and likely to change, but I'm really liking Adram's character so far. Here's a quick snippet from today's writing: Adram hopped down and padded over to look at Orion. “You picked intelligence as your dump stat, huh?” he asked sympathetically. #Writing #SaveVsDemons

Courtesy of my brother, I present the world's most photogenic kitten.

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

HAPPY COVER REVEAL DAY!!!

Today's Very Important writing-related search: What year did Knight Rider go off the air? (This is stuff you need to know if you're writing a book set in a slightly-altered 1994.) #Writing

Boosting for the nighttime folks.

Morning visitor in our living room. Just chilling on the curtain. (They were relocated to the back yard.)

Today is the last day (I think) to get the e-book of SLAYERS OF OLD for $3.99. Magic house and tentacled cat and baked goods and retired heroes saving the world one last time. bookshop.org/a/25009/9780... 💙📚🪐

Writing snippet: “This should be easy.” “Dude.” Willow punched his armor. “Would you kindly not tempt the Gods of Screwing Us Over?”

Slayers of Old, the perfect book to read this fall, is now in paperback! You'll no doubt binge this humorous cozy fantasy about a group of former Chosen Ones coming out of retirement to save the world one last time! buff.ly/Mwotg8s

I'll be sending out an author newsletter next week and giving away an autographed copy of the new trade paperback of SLAYERS OF OLD. You can subscribe at www.jimchines.com/Newsletter/ if you're interested. (I say it's a quarterly newsletter, but it's more of a when-I-get-to-it newsletter...)

“Vworping” is my new favorite word. 10/10 captioning.

"Seriously, what happened to my fucking cat?" This exciting UF romp had an amazing & extremely varied cast + a story that blew me out of the water (or deep pool of shoggoth goo, your call). Deftly executed, full of humor & emotions! @jimchines.com #booksky #bookrecommendations 📕📚📚❔📚❓ 💙📚 🩸📚

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

No writer is my competition. You're all fellow captives to the Madness that dances in our souls... Some writers are assholes tho 🤣

For those of us involved in the Anthropic AI settlement, @courtneymilan.com’s commentary and analysis have been invaluable. If you’re part of the settlement and not following her, you should remedy that.

There have been reported incidents of scammers attempting to impersonate JABberwocky agents in emails. Unfortunately, this is a part of a larger trend of publishing industry scams. For more info on what to look out for, please refer to this article on our website: awfulagent.com/writers-bewa...

Happy news: SLAYERS OF OLD is on sale for $3.99 on @bookshop.org, Amazon, Kobo, and all the rest. (I don’t know if this is a US-only thing, though.) Retired monster hunters, tentacle cat, magic mice, and more… bookshop.org/a/25009/9780...

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

Today's writing-related search: "Phase or faze" (For the line in question, I wanted the latter.) #Writing #Dammitishouldknowthis #Tiredbrain

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 300 million books to children. In honor of her passing, I'm making my middle grade book TAMORA CARTER: GOBLIN QUEEN free through the end of the week if you use coupon code ThanksDolly at payhip.com/b/JI8X Grab a copy for a kid who might enjoy it.

🚨Sweepstakes Alert!🚨Summerween is still upon us, so we're celebrating with a sweepstakes! One lucky winner will win this stack of horrors, thrillers, and mysteries! Enter through this link: buff.ly/3TOqFXm Open to the US only. Ends at 11:59pm on 9/9

I really like this line of dialogue for the contemporary fantasy I'm working on, but I think I'm going to cut it, because I'm not sure how long the reference would remain topical and understandable. --- "Nobody asked for your opinion, Temu Sauron."

It's the moment you have all been waiting for, the eighth installment of ConFusion Still ConFusing with @jimchines.com and Emma Burnett, @slashnburnett.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz8t...

Posted a review of Spider-Man: Brand New Day over on Patreon. I made this one free for anyone to read. Short version: it wasn't perfect, but it was a lot of fun. I think Spider-Man/Punisher was my favorite part. They play off each other so damn well. www.patreon.com/jchines/post...

Note to self: acquire a big black hat to go with my fake job.

Over on Patreon, for Princess and Kitemaster tier patrons, I've posted an essay about Imposter Syndrome from the book I'm currently working on. www.patreon.com/jchines

Tornado warning and multiple alerts and emergency notifications during our #WritersSymposium #GenCon panel just now. I blame @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social. Mad props to @larkmorganlu.bsky.social for moderating the panel through that chaos.

Quote of the day: "He would lose a battle wits with his own shadow." - from Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines

Oof. This one landed hard.

#USA: National Sexual Assault Hotline (available 24/7): 800.656.HOPE (4673) ; www.rainn.org

So the country has an outbreak of diarrhea lettuce and the air tastes like the ghosts of fire.