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Jason’s 2023 Year in Books
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(I'm now writing a free weekly newsletter about my adventures as a freelance book editor, if you're interested.)
Former owner of an indie press, currently a freelance developmental editor for self-publishing and small-press authors (email me at [email protected] for more, or see my freelancing website or my Upwork profile). Happy to accept your ARC for review, but be aware that I will treat it like any other book, even if I think it's terrible. I also write about movies at letterboxd.com/jasonpettus. Other interests include cooking, bicycling, international travel, sci-fi universe creation, and being a smartass. Based in Chicago.
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American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
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Chicago After Dark: A City All-Star Student Anthology
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The CCLaP 100: Volume 1
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CCLaP Journal #4
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Blah Blah Blah Heroin
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CCLaP's The Year In Books 2015
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CCLaP Journal #1
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Year of Peace: A Daily Devotional
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Dreaming of Laura Ingalls
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Is the PESO system good for self-publishing?
Today, a few thoughts on the modern online PESO system of marketing, and how each of the four quadrants might actually be good for the lone self-publisher or small indie press as well
Originally published at the Jason Pettus newsletter on February 2, 2024, and republished here at this website on the same day.
I haven't been shy about sharing in the past that one of the main reasons my own form
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| 2024 reads, #51. This early novel by Arthur C. Clarke was recently featured at the blog of science-fiction publisher Tor; and it sounded interesting enough that I decided to take a chance on it, despite my checkered results of trying to read Clarke i ...more | |
"SF Masterworks 39 - a full reworking of his first novella/novel Against the Fall of Night, is an astounding piece of future fiction reality building set aeons in the future where man has conquered and then lost space and resides in a massive automate"
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""so you are still dreaming?....I was wondering what there was left for you to do..." Ultimately an adventure ride into the far future, Clarke's tale is about dreaming big, imagination and determination to succeed against all odds. It is also about th"
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"Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars is an awesome book that I found difficult to read.
The story is set in Diaspar, a city in which a consciousness (often altered so that "bad" memories are erased) is reborn into an adult body. Diaspar is run by" Read more of this review » |
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| 2024 reads, #51. This early novel by Arthur C. Clarke was recently featured at the blog of science-fiction publisher Tor; and it sounded interesting enough that I decided to take a chance on it, despite my checkered results of trying to read Clarke i ...more | |
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| 2024 reads, #51. This early novel by Arthur C. Clarke was recently featured at the blog of science-fiction publisher Tor; and it sounded interesting enough that I decided to take a chance on it, despite my checkered results of trying to read Clarke i ...more | |
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| 2024 reads, #50. As always with books like these, I have an important ethical disclosure to make here at the start of my write-up, which is that Lucie Klaassen is one of my freelance clients and that I was actually the editor of this book, so my opin ...more | |
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| 2024 reads, #39. I had the fun experience this year of being a judge for the Prism Awards, celebrating the best in paranormal romance publishing, and this is one of the entries I ended up reading for that. Therefore I don’t think it would probably be ...more | |
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| 2024 reads, #41. I had the fun experience this year of being a judge for the Prism Awards, celebrating the best in paranormal romance publishing, and this is one of the entries I ended up reading for that. Therefore I don’t think it would probably be ...more | |
“it never really worked; so the moment the generation after them, the more earnest and naive Millennials, started having discretionary income for the first time, Corporate America instantly switched over to pleasing them, because the vacuous boy bands and insipid reality shows that are now a permanent part of our culture worked a lot better on them than they did the cynical, skeptical, fun-hating Generation X.)”
― Blah Blah Blah Heroin: Dennis Cooper's 'George Miles Cycle' and the Transgressive Tragedy of Generation X
― Blah Blah Blah Heroin: Dennis Cooper's 'George Miles Cycle' and the Transgressive Tragedy of Generation X
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Jun 26, 2023 01:00PM
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Yes, we were specifically invited to contribute our coming schedule! If you check out the related article there as well, where they asked various writers and publishers to recommend a couple of books from that master list that they're particularly looking forward to, I have some thoughts about Curbside there too. Thanks, though, for bringing this to my attention!Tuck wrote: "Tuck wrote: "you all are on this list
http://electricliterature.com/blog/20..."
curbside too"
Tuck wrote: "you all are on this listhttp://electricliterature.com/blog/20..."
curbside too
Hello Jason:) Just wanted to stop by and let you know about my Mirrored Staircase graphic novella Trilogy campaign that I've just launched!Have a wonderful Christmas:)
http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/...
Nice to meet you, Jason:)Feel free to stop by my daily blog here on GR whenever you're in the mood:)
Have a great night!
Frances wrote: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY?"Thank you! 44 today!
I'm so excited about your soon-to-be-funded joint Kickstarter project!! http://kck.st/TaVNH5. Since your books are not named individually in the pitch, I wanted to plug those offered under certain "backer" awards. CCLaP books: Repetition Patterns, Too Young to Fall Asleep, 99 Problems, Life After Sleep, Salt Creek Anthology, Amsterdamned if You Do, American Wasteland, Have You Seen Me, Get Up Tim, solo/down, Famous Drownings in Literary History, and Jugs & Capes. http://www.cclapcenter.com/hypermodern/
I wanted also to remind peeps to back the project! Always looking forward! Cheers!
Am really enjoying your book. Good style. And great collection. Thanks for adding!
Great job on the CCLaP 100 reviews, I hope you're still going strong!
Wonderful! I look forward to reading the review.
mp wrote: "Are you about to write a review for Midnight's Children? I hope it will be super-positive one. It is one of my favorites."Yes I am! And yes it is!
Are you about to write a review for Midnight's Children? I hope it will be super-positive one. It is one of my favorites.
Jacobmartin wrote: "Thanks for the Like Jason, I have been reading your reviews continuously for a while now.I've also been trying to watch movies you recommend as well as books, I could recommend you some like Trai..."
This is great, Jacob. I'll definitely be adding these films to my Netflix queue.
Thanks for the Like Jason, I have been reading your reviews continuously for a while now.I've also been trying to watch movies you recommend as well as books, I could recommend you some like Train Man by Hitori Nakano and, if you're brave enough, the movie version of Ryu Murakami's Audition directed by Takashi Miike. Egads, I've been unsettled for days by that big damn movie.
Have you seen the movie, UP IN THE AIR, yet? with george clooney?? You'll see lots of scenes from St. Louis because it was filmed there,and I really liked it.
Thanks for the add. I love your site CCLaP. :-)
Nick wrote: "Jason,I love your comments and what you're doing with CCLaP. I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy your BookSwim membership (and please be honest with your thoughts)
Nick Ruffilo
BookSwim.com"
Thanks, Nick! For those who don't know what he's talking about, I recently received a free two-month trial membership to Nick's company, in return for writing about my experience afterwards both here and at the CCLaP website. For those who don't know, BookSwim is essentially "Netflix for books" -- for a monthly fee they will mail X amount of titles to you, which you can then keep for as long as you want, getting new titles sent each time you mail the old ones back. I'll be posting my review of my own experience there at the beginning of December.
Jason,I love your comments and what you're doing with CCLaP. I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy your BookSwim membership (and please be honest with your thoughts)
Nick Ruffilo
BookSwim.com
Karin wrote: "Where can I find your books about your travel in Germany? Anywhere where I can get them as ebooks? I've been wanting to read them but can't seem to find them."Ah, Karin, good to hear from you! Well, the online headquarters are still up, at http://www.jasonpettus.com/kool/ and http://www.jasonpettus.com/scheisse/ , where text and photos of each trip can be found. I still haven't put out standalone electronic copies for the public yet, since that was one of the benefits of the people who paid money in advance; although after I -finally- get out the paper copy they're all owed as well, then I will finally release the PDFs for free download online.
Why, I am so pleased that you are of the same opinion of Burroughs, as me. I have read all of Burroughs work and ashamedly, I actually think I liked the others at the time that I read them (my brain must have been on vacation).On one hand, I want to re-read them and reevaluate, as I'm certain that I must have been delusional the first time around; but I also really don't want to waste my time. Why re-read Burroughs, when I can read something good instead?
It's a dilemma.
Jason PettusYou were the last person I expected to run across reading the same books as me, and having Goodreads randomly link me to your review of ... whatever it was - was really startling.
Hope life is treating you kind!
Amy Kennebec
Thanks for sharing " The name Of the Rose". I will have to add it to my collection. Have a good one
I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.Argh...this is terrible...
Again, I'm very sorry.
-Jeremy
