Janna G. Noelle
@jgnoelle.bsky.social
Historical fiction writer, wanderer, workhorse. Left-brained, left wing, right-handed, wrong direction. East Coast meets West. She/her.
📍 Coast Salish Territory (aka Vancouver, BC)
📍 Coast Salish Territory (aka Vancouver, BC)
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Janna G. Noelle
@jgnoelle.bsky.social
· Oct 21
A re-introduction since I'll be here more regularly! I’m a writer of histfic set in ancient worlds (WIP = ancient Greece) full of twisty plots, politics, adventure & the past in dialogue with today’s issues. I’ll be posting about writing, reading, social justice and whatever else comes to mind✨️
An innovative take on vampires paired with Ethiopian lore, in IMMORTAL DARK a self-destructive girl searching for her sister attends an arcane, all-Black university to try to wrest her ancestral home from the equally ruthless, alluring vampire she's convinced is her sister's kidnapper. #JannaGReads
February 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
An innovative take on vampires paired with Ethiopian lore, in IMMORTAL DARK a self-destructive girl searching for her sister attends an arcane, all-Black university to try to wrest her ancestral home from the equally ruthless, alluring vampire she's convinced is her sister's kidnapper. #JannaGReads
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Happy Lunar New Year & Year of the Snake from me and my friend's adorable Chinese zodiac figurine set!
January 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Happy Lunar New Year & Year of the Snake from me and my friend's adorable Chinese zodiac figurine set!
In WINTER HARVEST Demeter’s lingering trauma from being swallowed & growing up inside her monstrous father’s stomach leads to a dark turn of her own and for the earth when her daughter inexplicably goes missing in this complex, at times merciless Greek myth retelling by a Greek author. #JannaGReads
January 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
In WINTER HARVEST Demeter’s lingering trauma from being swallowed & growing up inside her monstrous father’s stomach leads to a dark turn of her own and for the earth when her daughter inexplicably goes missing in this complex, at times merciless Greek myth retelling by a Greek author. #JannaGReads
In no way would I have thought that a campy, Korean, sci-romance, soap opera set aboard a space station would become my newest viewing obsession yet here we are 🚀
January 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
In no way would I have thought that a campy, Korean, sci-romance, soap opera set aboard a space station would become my newest viewing obsession yet here we are 🚀
I’ve been trying to downsize my closet since the pandemic—since I stopped needing a full-time-in-office wardrobe for my now hybrid job. But I just love my clothes too much. Some of them hold such great memories. So if I truly can’t part with any of them I’ll have to find more occasions to wear them!
January 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I’ve been trying to downsize my closet since the pandemic—since I stopped needing a full-time-in-office wardrobe for my now hybrid job. But I just love my clothes too much. Some of them hold such great memories. So if I truly can’t part with any of them I’ll have to find more occasions to wear them!
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I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
Powerful, brilliant and harrowing, in ACHILLES IN VIETNAM a psychotherapist and amateur classist examines the Iliad as an account of Achilles’s moral breakdown resulting from combat trauma and PTSD as compared & contrasted with the severely afflicted Vietnam veterans in his care. #JannaGReads
January 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Powerful, brilliant and harrowing, in ACHILLES IN VIETNAM a psychotherapist and amateur classist examines the Iliad as an account of Achilles’s moral breakdown resulting from combat trauma and PTSD as compared & contrasted with the severely afflicted Vietnam veterans in his care. #JannaGReads
How has this first full week back to work felt like it's erased all the rest I got over Christmas all at once? 🫠
January 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
How has this first full week back to work felt like it's erased all the rest I got over Christmas all at once? 🫠
The way my body hurts after I exercise & hurts even more when I don’t exercise at all. Fitness is truly its own kind of curse. Once you start you can NEVER STOP 😩
January 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The way my body hurts after I exercise & hurts even more when I don’t exercise at all. Fitness is truly its own kind of curse. Once you start you can NEVER STOP 😩
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Anti-A.I. stamps!
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
January 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Anti-A.I. stamps!
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
Today at work we were discussing resolutions for 2025 and I mentioned how I like quarterly goals. A colleague agreed, saying this set the goals for different seasons and this kinda blew my mind. I'd always just used Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. WinterGoals, SpringGoals, etc. is SO much more inspiring! 🌱☀️🍂❄️
January 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Today at work we were discussing resolutions for 2025 and I mentioned how I like quarterly goals. A colleague agreed, saying this set the goals for different seasons and this kinda blew my mind. I'd always just used Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. WinterGoals, SpringGoals, etc. is SO much more inspiring! 🌱☀️🍂❄️
Day 12 #12ReadsOfXmas
ELEANORE OF AVIGNON is a moving, often tense tale of a young healer/midwife who defies convention in apprenticing with a male physician to help find a cure for the lethal new plague sweeping 14th century Europe amidst growing public unrest & willful scapegoating. #JannaGReads
ELEANORE OF AVIGNON is a moving, often tense tale of a young healer/midwife who defies convention in apprenticing with a male physician to help find a cure for the lethal new plague sweeping 14th century Europe amidst growing public unrest & willful scapegoating. #JannaGReads
January 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Day 12 #12ReadsOfXmas
ELEANORE OF AVIGNON is a moving, often tense tale of a young healer/midwife who defies convention in apprenticing with a male physician to help find a cure for the lethal new plague sweeping 14th century Europe amidst growing public unrest & willful scapegoating. #JannaGReads
ELEANORE OF AVIGNON is a moving, often tense tale of a young healer/midwife who defies convention in apprenticing with a male physician to help find a cure for the lethal new plague sweeping 14th century Europe amidst growing public unrest & willful scapegoating. #JannaGReads
Day 11 #12ReadsOfXmas
A suspenseful quasi-biography set in 1950s Hollywood, in THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME a novice Mexican actress cast as a biblical film’s lead must navigate challenges with her family, co-stars, director, the tabloids & her own yearning heart both on- and off-screen. #JannaGReads
A suspenseful quasi-biography set in 1950s Hollywood, in THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME a novice Mexican actress cast as a biblical film’s lead must navigate challenges with her family, co-stars, director, the tabloids & her own yearning heart both on- and off-screen. #JannaGReads
January 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Day 11 #12ReadsOfXmas
A suspenseful quasi-biography set in 1950s Hollywood, in THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME a novice Mexican actress cast as a biblical film’s lead must navigate challenges with her family, co-stars, director, the tabloids & her own yearning heart both on- and off-screen. #JannaGReads
A suspenseful quasi-biography set in 1950s Hollywood, in THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME a novice Mexican actress cast as a biblical film’s lead must navigate challenges with her family, co-stars, director, the tabloids & her own yearning heart both on- and off-screen. #JannaGReads
Day 10 #12ReadsOfXmas
Set in a Korean-inspired fantasy world, in FIVE BROKEN BLADES a group of expert liars, killers & thieves with secrets and a grudge against the crown come together to assassinate the king in an tense, engaging alliance where the threat of betrayal looms constantly. #JannaGReads
Set in a Korean-inspired fantasy world, in FIVE BROKEN BLADES a group of expert liars, killers & thieves with secrets and a grudge against the crown come together to assassinate the king in an tense, engaging alliance where the threat of betrayal looms constantly. #JannaGReads
January 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Day 10 #12ReadsOfXmas
Set in a Korean-inspired fantasy world, in FIVE BROKEN BLADES a group of expert liars, killers & thieves with secrets and a grudge against the crown come together to assassinate the king in an tense, engaging alliance where the threat of betrayal looms constantly. #JannaGReads
Set in a Korean-inspired fantasy world, in FIVE BROKEN BLADES a group of expert liars, killers & thieves with secrets and a grudge against the crown come together to assassinate the king in an tense, engaging alliance where the threat of betrayal looms constantly. #JannaGReads
Frosty, frigid (-17°C) sky over YYC Calgary Airport 🥶
Also a visual reminder to myself that planes don't (can't?) reverse on their own. They are pushed!
Also a visual reminder to myself that planes don't (can't?) reverse on their own. They are pushed!
January 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Frosty, frigid (-17°C) sky over YYC Calgary Airport 🥶
Also a visual reminder to myself that planes don't (can't?) reverse on their own. They are pushed!
Also a visual reminder to myself that planes don't (can't?) reverse on their own. They are pushed!
I don’t aim for a specific total number of books I’ll read anymore but have a handful of other number-focused reading goals!
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I don’t aim for a specific total number of books I’ll read anymore but have a handful of other number-focused reading goals!
Day 9 #12ReadsOfXmas
Powerful & epic, in DAUGHTER OF THE MERCIFUL DEEP, to save her all-Black Southern town from being drowned by a dam a young woman with past trauma must embrace the magic of her ancestors and of an advanced world beneath the river to heal both communities—and herself #JannaGReads
Powerful & epic, in DAUGHTER OF THE MERCIFUL DEEP, to save her all-Black Southern town from being drowned by a dam a young woman with past trauma must embrace the magic of her ancestors and of an advanced world beneath the river to heal both communities—and herself #JannaGReads
January 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Day 9 #12ReadsOfXmas
Powerful & epic, in DAUGHTER OF THE MERCIFUL DEEP, to save her all-Black Southern town from being drowned by a dam a young woman with past trauma must embrace the magic of her ancestors and of an advanced world beneath the river to heal both communities—and herself #JannaGReads
Powerful & epic, in DAUGHTER OF THE MERCIFUL DEEP, to save her all-Black Southern town from being drowned by a dam a young woman with past trauma must embrace the magic of her ancestors and of an advanced world beneath the river to heal both communities—and herself #JannaGReads
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A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
Day 8 #12ReadsOfXmas
In LIVESUIT a man and his best pal enlist for an 8-year tour in an intergalactic war against ruthless aliens, raising suspenseful and ominous questions on the nature of life, death & humanity as fighters in healing, performance-enhancing armour that’s never removed #JannaGReads
In LIVESUIT a man and his best pal enlist for an 8-year tour in an intergalactic war against ruthless aliens, raising suspenseful and ominous questions on the nature of life, death & humanity as fighters in healing, performance-enhancing armour that’s never removed #JannaGReads
January 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Day 8 #12ReadsOfXmas
In LIVESUIT a man and his best pal enlist for an 8-year tour in an intergalactic war against ruthless aliens, raising suspenseful and ominous questions on the nature of life, death & humanity as fighters in healing, performance-enhancing armour that’s never removed #JannaGReads
In LIVESUIT a man and his best pal enlist for an 8-year tour in an intergalactic war against ruthless aliens, raising suspenseful and ominous questions on the nature of life, death & humanity as fighters in healing, performance-enhancing armour that’s never removed #JannaGReads
Started 2025 off right with a morning run, albeit in shoes that were somewhat too small—which may in fact be fully symbolic of the year ahead (hopefully in the most positive reading possible).
a woman wearing a purple sports bra and ear buds is running in front of a be logo
Alt: A Black woman running
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January 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Started 2025 off right with a morning run, albeit in shoes that were somewhat too small—which may in fact be fully symbolic of the year ahead (hopefully in the most positive reading possible).
Last read of 2024—a Black, queer, dystopian science fantasy novella. Subtle, gritty, heart-wrenching, fascinating worldbuilding, an exploration of masculinity/male gender expectations & incredible use of language! It was important to me to end my reading year with a BIPOC author's book. #JannaGReads
January 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Last read of 2024—a Black, queer, dystopian science fantasy novella. Subtle, gritty, heart-wrenching, fascinating worldbuilding, an exploration of masculinity/male gender expectations & incredible use of language! It was important to me to end my reading year with a BIPOC author's book. #JannaGReads
Day 7 #12ReadsOfXmas
Unique & atmospheric, in DAUGHTER OF CALAMITY a showgirl in 1920s Shanghai is caught between shamans trying to raise a dark goddess to cleanse the city’s decadence and the mob—which includes her revered grandmother who wants her as a successor—fighting to stop them #JannaGReads
Unique & atmospheric, in DAUGHTER OF CALAMITY a showgirl in 1920s Shanghai is caught between shamans trying to raise a dark goddess to cleanse the city’s decadence and the mob—which includes her revered grandmother who wants her as a successor—fighting to stop them #JannaGReads
December 31, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Day 7 #12ReadsOfXmas
Unique & atmospheric, in DAUGHTER OF CALAMITY a showgirl in 1920s Shanghai is caught between shamans trying to raise a dark goddess to cleanse the city’s decadence and the mob—which includes her revered grandmother who wants her as a successor—fighting to stop them #JannaGReads
Unique & atmospheric, in DAUGHTER OF CALAMITY a showgirl in 1920s Shanghai is caught between shamans trying to raise a dark goddess to cleanse the city’s decadence and the mob—which includes her revered grandmother who wants her as a successor—fighting to stop them #JannaGReads
Me explaining to my mom in the last few days of my Christmas holiday at home what I do in the job I’ve held for over 10 years
December 31, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Me explaining to my mom in the last few days of my Christmas holiday at home what I do in the job I’ve held for over 10 years