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JA Keuken
@fictionjenre.bsky.social
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Master guesser of plot twists. Survives solely on a diet of fictional suffering.

Alt Text Specialist | Editor | Book Publishing Professional | Aspiring Author

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Officially doubled the number of books for my 2025 reading challenge 💙📚 .

Thanks, car accident, for giving me so much time to read.
Screenshot of a Goodreads account with the title "2025 Reading Challenge." There is a photo of a blonde white woman with glasses, and to the right says "Congrats! You've read 50 of 25 books."
October 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Mock book cover I created for The Picture of Dorian Gray 💙📚

Would love to get into book production itself (cover design, typesetting, etc), so I am working on improving my skills during this period of unemployment 😅

#BookCover #CoverArt #Art #Artsky #DorianGray #OscarWilde
A dark brown frame on a dark wallpapered wall. Within is a painted portrait of the side profile of a man's face, and it is torn down the middle. In the opening of the tear has "Oscar Wilde" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
August 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Editors Canada opted out of X and into Bluesky! Yessss. Solidarity!

#EditorsCanada
A screenshot from LinkedIn showing that Editors Canada is leaving X
June 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Gotta give it Tigest Girma for trying to fill a space in romantasy 🥰

(I've only got like 10 chapters in, so no spoilers, lol)

#ImmortalDark #TigestGirma #Booksky #Romantasy #Representation
"For the black girls who've always marveled at the dark beauty of vampires. The immortals look like us in this one. & For my habesha girls who dare to occupy new and wondrous spaces. Hold your head up. And let them see you."
June 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I'm not one to usually complain about technology or updates, but someone at Samsung needs to pay for whoever thought this was an acceptable new battery icon
May 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Drawing after a concussion is hard, and I've been somewhat avoiding it since the accident.

Not my best work, but I've gotta (re)start somewhere.

Now it's time to rest off the head pain that came with doing it 😬

(I wasn't able to erase the ugly flowers lol)

#PCS
#Art
#Bunny
#Charcoal
Charcoal drawing of the side profile of a bunny.
May 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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This medication will fix you.
Existential crises be gone, pain numbed away.
Brand new and brand name.
Promoting drugs with a capitalist agenda.
Seeking patients, not to cure.

#vss365
#WritingCommunity
#Promotion
#vss
Sketched image of a hand holding a microphone.
April 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Got Persephone's Curse (by Katrina Leno) in #BookMail today!

I have another ARC ongoing, but that's non-fiction and really heavy. I can't do that sort of thing before sleeping lol.

💙📚
Image of the cover for the boom Persephone's Curse by Katrina Leno.
April 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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They say that after seven years, your body completely renews.
Only the heart and brain hold cells that last a lifetime.
They will pass along the story of you. Even when my skin is mottled and blue, my body will still desire you.

#vss365 #WritingCommunity #desire
A silhouette of a muscular man with his chin up, the light reflected where his muscles are on his shoulders, the jaw catches some light along the side, and a bit near the Adam's apple.
March 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Hit over 100k words for the first time in my life!!

It took me 29 days.

Wild.

#WriterSky #WritingCommunity
A graph showing the gradual word count increase throughout the month of March (and tail end of February), cumulating to 102,722 words as of March 24th.
March 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Advanced copy of They Poisoned the World by @mariahblake.bsky.social came in for #BookMail!

Already enjoying how the storytelling weaves in the information she attained through intensive sources.

Seems promising so far, can't wait to read it!

#BookSky
Cover a book with a town as the image with a river flowing next to a bunch of houses taking up the bottom part, and most of the rest of it is sky at early sunset. The title of the book is "They Poisoned the World" with subtitle "Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals" by Mariah Blake.
March 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I'm going to give Our Infinite Stars a ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2.

The pacing is fantastic, the chapters are short and keeps you up late at night thinking, "Just one more chapter." That will be a lie. The characters are well developed, and the plot twist is unexpected.

💙 📚🪐 #OurInfiniteFates #LauraSteven #Review
Book cover for a book called "Our Infinite Fates" by Laura Steven. The tagline is "They've loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. They've killed each other in every one."
March 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Unfortunately, I cannot give a high rating to #TheLastSecretAgent, which I received in my #BookMail.

It felt like I was reading it as an editor.

It's not ready to be published; it contains too many grammatical & formatting errors along with unchecked and inaccurate information.

#Booksky
Image of the book "The Last Secref Agent" by Pippa Latour with Jude Dobson. A portrait of a younger Pippa circa World War 2 is featured on the cover.
March 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This is totally fictional and not referencing anyone real, so please don't get the wrong idea & think it's political.

It didn't really belong on my other account, and doesn't really belong here, but I cracked myself up with it a while back. Sorry about the font size.

#WritingCommunity #Politics
Imagine being the richest main in the world, yet never having a blade of grass even gently flutter against your fair white skin, with a hairline reminiscent of the shoreline before a tsunami, being cursed with a name that only a bully could love. Yet the people think you privileged. The people know struggle not. they haven’t seen how the mothers with which you breed lay out their hands when you have already given them the greatest gift of all - DNA of a villain whose child’s name they cannot speak, and a father’s name they can never forget. Yet you persist. You promised your child self a dream, and you are determined. After you lose the many lives of test subjects and employees, the sight which lays before you sends shockwaves through your chest - the beating of a heart that had long blackened. You had forgotten the sensation. Finally, after so long, stands Father with a proud look upon his face. With all the corruption in his heart, he still struggles to hold his face in such an unfamiliar expression. He looks at you, and he thinks of everything you’ve done. He opens his mouth to speak, but you put a finger to his lips. Your beady eyes gleam as colour rushes to your cheeks. “I did it all of you, Papa,” you say, almost stumbling upon your words. He takes you by the shoulder and sighs. “Even I, a man made in the image of your true shady father in South Africa, crafted and hardwired to see you for who you want me to be, still cannot see anything a parent could be remotely proud of.” Your expression barely cracks, but the same cannot be said about your heart. Finally, you turn and walk away. You don’t need a father to achieve greatness. Women should think their children lucky to have absent fathers for their children, as it only leads to Godliness. And you want your children to be Godly, no?
March 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Disappointingly, the thunderstorm that was foretold for today did not come to fruition.

Half-ass rain and a mucky yard just doesn't have the same creative aesthetic.

Today's word count is 3,914 🙂

#WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #wc
A blurry image of a man with long, wavy hair and an intense expression on his face. The quote says, "I expect to not hear another paranoia-driven narrative."
March 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Ay, I surpassed my word count goal yesterday!
Goal was 5k, I reached 5,619.
I wonder how many of those 5.6k words were swears, though.

#WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #SciFantasy #WIP
Blurred image of a girl crouched in front of a Sci-Fi-like background with a quote on top reading, "We weren't blood relatives before, and I don't want to share blood now."
February 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM