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The official blog of author James R. Wilson, proud writer of Gateway and Electus series. icon made by @Aki_Rainbowgays/@Doomsweater on twitter/insta

[jrwilsonwriting]

Y’know, lots of incredible stories start on Halloween, including a certain someone’s…. So I thought hey, why not celebrate the true festive season with a sale!

(And then Amazon limited exactly what I could do but there we go…)

My latest book, Electus / Gateway : Remastered Collection, is on sale for the whole of Halloweekend!

From now until the end of Sunday (31st October 1AM to 3rd November 11PM local time), the Kindle version of the collection has had its prices slashed for the first time since launch.

(Again, sadly only the Kindle versions, and sadly only on the UK and US storefronts)

UK - http://tiny.cc/EGKindleUK

US - http://tiny.cc/EGKindleUS

Get your copy quick, and Happy Halloween!

[jrwilsonwriting]

Call it that Emotional Scurvy because my old wounds just keep reopening

[jrwilsonwriting]

Electus / Gateway : Remastered Collection is out now!

Competition winners will be announced shortly, but the collection of 5 stories is now available to purchase in hardback, paperback and Kindle version!

Head to tiny.cc/EGUK to buy! (If you aren't UK based, you should be able to find it on your regional Amazon)

Electus / Gateway : Remastered Collection eBook : Wilson, James R.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

[jrwilsonwriting]

Book Giveaway!

Alright folks, to celebrate the upcoming release of the Electus / Gateway: Remastered Collection, I'm going to be giving away some physical copies of the books on my social media channels!

We'll start with one copy per social media page (I have tumblr, twitter and instagram, all with the same handle @jrwilsonwriting), but the more entrants we get, the more that number will rise!

The rules are simple. Pre-order a Kindle copy of the book before launch day, and like and reblog this post and you'll be in with a chance of winning a paperback or hardback copy (your choice) of the Remastered Collection!

Giveaway closes 31/10/23, it's open to entries worldwide, and full terms and conditions can be found here.

[wrens-wramblings]

I'd rather have a thousand "OHMIGOD WE WERE RIGHT!!!" theory confirmed moments where due to good storytelling and foreshadowing the audience was able to figure out parts of the future plot than just one more stupid twist that makes no narrative sense to avoid being "predictable".

If people knowing anything about your plot spoils the show entirely maybe it's just no good lmao.

It's not worth ruining your narrative themes and character integrity just so everyone is shocked. Sometimes twists that have been guessed .... Are better.

[jrwilsonwriting]

I’ve always said the best twist is something that is obvious the second time round. If you’re familiar enough with the genre or whatever to figure it out first time round, then that’s grand! It means the groundwork has been laid correctly.

[queenofattolia]

(x) truest thing i’ve seen in a while

[jrwilsonwriting]

Personally have the “I’ve know you since deviantART” people instead, that’s always fun….

[hallistarling]

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[jacubesilvora]

Writing is not about 'telling an epic story' or 'making something that will outlive you'. Writing is about going "You know what would be fucking awesome?" and then committing word crimes

[someemochick]

[dramatic-dolphin]

u know when there's an article or something abt a historical person and everyone is like "don't try to apply modern gender labels to her, this was clearly a woman who cross-dressed for better opportunities/education/safety!" and I'm like sure that tracks, there's been countless women in history who were women but dressed as men in order to get an education/fight in a war and so on

and then I read the contemporary sources on this person and it's full of "he threatened to shoot anyone who called him a woman" and "petitioned the local government to legally consider him a man, on the grounds of 'I live as a man anyway'" and "he always said he should have been born a man and it was only by misfortune that he was born a woman"

like... babes, I do agree with not applying modern labels to historical people, but this does not sound like someone who just cross-dressed for better opportunities

[beardedmrbean]

[6qubed]

that was everything I was hoping it would be. marvelous

[patroclusdefencesquad]

me

[nudityandnerdery]

“How bad is it, doc? Give it to me straight.” “I… I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

[kristina100000]

[weavethewild-deactivated2022060]

All of us on tumblr beating back the horror of being known professionally with sticks

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20161]

good idea: marry a blacksmith so you can get free swords whenever 

[steelplatedhearts]

[omgweatherunderground]

Better idea; become a miner and then marry a blacksmith so he can have the required materials for you to get free swords whenever. 

[ranma-official]

Make a harem and marry a full production chain

[sunspotpony]

Monopolygamy.

[dangerousnotbroken]

I mean, if your harem is full of blacksmiths would that make it a polyhammerous relationship?

[saltwasteland]

You could make a whole polyarmory

[stealthrockdamage-deactivated20]

people slipping up and saying shit like “biological name” instead of “deadname” is more or less proof these people don’t actually care about real science they just want smart sounding words and i guarantee if we could manipulate chromosomes they’d abandon all pretext of science and start yammering about how people are born with a “masculine/feminine essence” that “cant be changed” like none of these people actually know the chromosomes real fuckin function and they dont care they just know they cant be changed

[daggers-drawn]

“Biological name”

Scientists scanned my dna, I’m genetically a Sally but I chose my own fate.

[softlyfiercely]

i changed my name for non gender related reasons and people like to ask me “what’s your birth name” and i say “oh i actually wasn’t born with a name my parents just gave me one” and that tends to shut people up

[akros-artificer]

Damn nice

[the-marked-man]

that’s an excellent response. gonna have to steal it

[questions-within-questions]

That’s so perfect I can’t even compete with my annacdote about how my parents just never got around to naming me.

[zarekthelordofthefries]

No hang on I need to hear that anecdote

[questions-within-questions]

Okay so I didn’t discover this in detail until after I transitioned and tried to correct all my documents and rid myself of my deadname.

So eventually I get to my birth certificate, which I had never seen. My parents eventually agree to dig it out of their attic and I’m expecting to see my deadname on it,

NOPE.

“Baby [Lastname]” was listed as my name on my birth certificate. When I enquired about it this turned out after birth I was busy having all kinds of life threatening health problems for the first year of my life so naming me was something that was kept on the back burner. Medieval style.

My deadname was never amended because my parents literally never named me, my deadname was just a nickname my eight year-old brother came up with that kind of sticked.

Okay, sure, “but where,” I asked, “did the name ‘Baby’ come from?”

“Oh,” I was told “That’s kind of a placeholder hospitals assign to newborns in this situation.”

So my original name was litterally assigned to me at birth by a doctor.

[kiophen]

you were literally assigned baby at birth

[beardedmrbean]

[hownottolearnalanguage]

[absolxguardian]

I’m kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn’t colonizer bullshit, it’s what everyone does. It’s just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:

“Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A’s word for thing. Say, what do you call it?”

“Oh it’s [language B’s word for thing].”

“Got it, it’s [language B’s word for thing] variety [language A’s word for thing]”

[mrcloudyfun]

The human race just naturally moon moons itself

[headspace-hotel]

Bread Bread

[championoftheravenqueen]