JH Tomen
@jhtomen.bsky.social
📖 ND Author of SF/F
🌿 Climate Substack - The Carbon Fables
📣 Activist with Citizens' Climate Chicago
⚡️ Renewables & Electrification Nerd
🗣️ Español y 中文
https://linktr.ee/jhtomen
Posting about book characters, story ideas, subs, & climate
🌿 Climate Substack - The Carbon Fables
📣 Activist with Citizens' Climate Chicago
⚡️ Renewables & Electrification Nerd
🗣️ Español y 中文
https://linktr.ee/jhtomen
Posting about book characters, story ideas, subs, & climate
Shout out to Eric Kessler (internal_combustion_art on insta) for making the neighborhood come alive!
#kindleunlimited #romantasy #chicago #lincolnsquare #booksky
#kindleunlimited #romantasy #chicago #lincolnsquare #booksky
December 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Shout out to Eric Kessler (internal_combustion_art on insta) for making the neighborhood come alive!
#kindleunlimited #romantasy #chicago #lincolnsquare #booksky
#kindleunlimited #romantasy #chicago #lincolnsquare #booksky
I've been slowly posting these magical spirits over the last year, but the book is finally out!! Stunning cover with artwork from 3 different artists!
If you like a cozy, magical rom-com, this one's for you!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4GZ31RV
#Writer #Writers #BookSky #writing #indyauthor #books
If you like a cozy, magical rom-com, this one's for you!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4GZ31RV
#Writer #Writers #BookSky #writing #indyauthor #books
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I've been slowly posting these magical spirits over the last year, but the book is finally out!! Stunning cover with artwork from 3 different artists!
If you like a cozy, magical rom-com, this one's for you!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4GZ31RV
#Writer #Writers #BookSky #writing #indyauthor #books
If you like a cozy, magical rom-com, this one's for you!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4GZ31RV
#Writer #Writers #BookSky #writing #indyauthor #books
I lost my mother when I was twelve. In my new novella, RATS: A Tragedy of Timeline Tourism, I go back to that most tragic - and deeply awkward - part of the timeline...2002.
Part “memoir” and part sci-fi fugue state, you’re gonna wanna read this one!
#novel #scifi
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3JMFRYR
Part “memoir” and part sci-fi fugue state, you’re gonna wanna read this one!
#novel #scifi
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3JMFRYR
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I lost my mother when I was twelve. In my new novella, RATS: A Tragedy of Timeline Tourism, I go back to that most tragic - and deeply awkward - part of the timeline...2002.
Part “memoir” and part sci-fi fugue state, you’re gonna wanna read this one!
#novel #scifi
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3JMFRYR
Part “memoir” and part sci-fi fugue state, you’re gonna wanna read this one!
#novel #scifi
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3JMFRYR
New #substack dropped, and it's about everything you never wanted to know about #plastic. Dip your toe in, the microplastics are warm!
jhtomen.substack.com
jhtomen.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New #substack dropped, and it's about everything you never wanted to know about #plastic. Dip your toe in, the microplastics are warm!
jhtomen.substack.com
jhtomen.substack.com
Is your #halloween #pumpkin getting a little sad? Make sure you take it to a composting pumpkin smash!
Each pumpkin that goes to land fill can create as much as 0.4 pounds of methane, as much as driving a gas car 13 miles!
Then multiply that by the 2 billion pumpkins we have each year... 👻😱
Each pumpkin that goes to land fill can create as much as 0.4 pounds of methane, as much as driving a gas car 13 miles!
Then multiply that by the 2 billion pumpkins we have each year... 👻😱
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Is your #halloween #pumpkin getting a little sad? Make sure you take it to a composting pumpkin smash!
Each pumpkin that goes to land fill can create as much as 0.4 pounds of methane, as much as driving a gas car 13 miles!
Then multiply that by the 2 billion pumpkins we have each year... 👻😱
Each pumpkin that goes to land fill can create as much as 0.4 pounds of methane, as much as driving a gas car 13 miles!
Then multiply that by the 2 billion pumpkins we have each year... 👻😱
Took the #amtrak down to #springfield yesterday to lobby for #CRGA, the Clean & Reliable Grid Affordability Act. If you live in #illinois tell your lawmakers you want a more affordable grid!
www.citizensutilityboard.org/blog/2025/05...
www.citizensutilityboard.org/blog/2025/05...
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Took the #amtrak down to #springfield yesterday to lobby for #CRGA, the Clean & Reliable Grid Affordability Act. If you live in #illinois tell your lawmakers you want a more affordable grid!
www.citizensutilityboard.org/blog/2025/05...
www.citizensutilityboard.org/blog/2025/05...
There’s so much #cleanenergy waiting to get on the #grid. Tell #congress you want permitting reform! (Assuming they come back from the shutdown…) https://citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-take-action/permitting-reform/
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
There’s so much #cleanenergy waiting to get on the #grid. Tell #congress you want permitting reform! (Assuming they come back from the shutdown…) https://citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-take-action/permitting-reform/
#EV tax credits end TODAY! If you want a juicy $7500 while cutting your #emissions by 70%, this is your moment!
Art courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Street Car 1935/1942
Art courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Street Car 1935/1942
September 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#EV tax credits end TODAY! If you want a juicy $7500 while cutting your #emissions by 70%, this is your moment!
Art courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Street Car 1935/1942
Art courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Street Car 1935/1942
Reminder to find an event near you for Sun Day this weekend (on Sunday lol - 9/21). @sundayofaction.bsky.social
It's gonna rain here in #chicago, but we are undeterred! Even the rain is caused by the #sun!
thirdact.org/sun-day/
**Art by Jacques Callot, Sun Rising, National Gallery of Art
It's gonna rain here in #chicago, but we are undeterred! Even the rain is caused by the #sun!
thirdact.org/sun-day/
**Art by Jacques Callot, Sun Rising, National Gallery of Art
September 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reminder to find an event near you for Sun Day this weekend (on Sunday lol - 9/21). @sundayofaction.bsky.social
It's gonna rain here in #chicago, but we are undeterred! Even the rain is caused by the #sun!
thirdact.org/sun-day/
**Art by Jacques Callot, Sun Rising, National Gallery of Art
It's gonna rain here in #chicago, but we are undeterred! Even the rain is caused by the #sun!
thirdact.org/sun-day/
**Art by Jacques Callot, Sun Rising, National Gallery of Art
Getting VERY pumped for @sundayofaction.bsky.social on September 21st! Going to be tabling with @cclusa.org in #chicago and this is my crafty attempt to explain the #grid lol
Let's get some permitting reform and get #solar everywhere!
Let's get some permitting reform and get #solar everywhere!
September 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Getting VERY pumped for @sundayofaction.bsky.social on September 21st! Going to be tabling with @cclusa.org in #chicago and this is my crafty attempt to explain the #grid lol
Let's get some permitting reform and get #solar everywhere!
Let's get some permitting reform and get #solar everywhere!
The best way to reduce #plastic #pollution is to avoid it in the first place. Find a refillery near you!
September 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The best way to reduce #plastic #pollution is to avoid it in the first place. Find a refillery near you!
So excited to have a new short story, Meat-cute, in Micromance Magazine today! Check it out at substack.com/@micromancem...
August 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
So excited to have a new short story, Meat-cute, in Micromance Magazine today! Check it out at substack.com/@micromancem...
A simple way to help with #climatechange is to #compost! Here’s some ways to do it in a city
August 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A simple way to help with #climatechange is to #compost! Here’s some ways to do it in a city
Can’t believe #writingbattle let me submit The Great Cat War in their recent battle about pets. Enjoy (?) this excerpt lolllll #writingprompts #writerlife #cats
June 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Can’t believe #writingbattle let me submit The Great Cat War in their recent battle about pets. Enjoy (?) this excerpt lolllll #writingprompts #writerlife #cats
This Saturday was #chicago river day!
Went down with @cclusa.org and the #wetlands initiative to Indian Ridge Marsh
Planted 2500 new plants on the marsh. Crazy this used to be a super fund site - you can still see the smoke stacks!
#sustainability #volunteering #climate #biodiversity #river
Went down with @cclusa.org and the #wetlands initiative to Indian Ridge Marsh
Planted 2500 new plants on the marsh. Crazy this used to be a super fund site - you can still see the smoke stacks!
#sustainability #volunteering #climate #biodiversity #river
May 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This Saturday was #chicago river day!
Went down with @cclusa.org and the #wetlands initiative to Indian Ridge Marsh
Planted 2500 new plants on the marsh. Crazy this used to be a super fund site - you can still see the smoke stacks!
#sustainability #volunteering #climate #biodiversity #river
Went down with @cclusa.org and the #wetlands initiative to Indian Ridge Marsh
Planted 2500 new plants on the marsh. Crazy this used to be a super fund site - you can still see the smoke stacks!
#sustainability #volunteering #climate #biodiversity #river
Was lucky enough to attend a #climate conference today at #uchicago through the Divinity School
There was climate science, a campus tree walk, and sessions on art and comedy in climate activism
Substack soon, but wanted to share some pics. Always forget how beautiful U Chi is!
There was climate science, a campus tree walk, and sessions on art and comedy in climate activism
Substack soon, but wanted to share some pics. Always forget how beautiful U Chi is!
May 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
You know it's almost summer when the sky gets bluer and the clouds get puffier
I'm done with wispy strands and foggy days! (I'll be wishing they were back when it's 100 degrees with 100% humidity)
#chicago #writerlife #summer
I'm done with wispy strands and foggy days! (I'll be wishing they were back when it's 100 degrees with 100% humidity)
#chicago #writerlife #summer
May 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
You know it's almost summer when the sky gets bluer and the clouds get puffier
I'm done with wispy strands and foggy days! (I'll be wishing they were back when it's 100 degrees with 100% humidity)
#chicago #writerlife #summer
I'm done with wispy strands and foggy days! (I'll be wishing they were back when it's 100 degrees with 100% humidity)
#chicago #writerlife #summer
So fun volunteering yesterday at the Greater Chicago @fooddepository.bsky.social
With friends from @cclusa.org, we made about a million potato bags, which were then filled with 13,800 lbs of potatoes
Makes u think about big numbers. 8B people on the planet and they all deserve more potatoes...
With friends from @cclusa.org, we made about a million potato bags, which were then filled with 13,800 lbs of potatoes
Makes u think about big numbers. 8B people on the planet and they all deserve more potatoes...
May 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So fun volunteering yesterday at the Greater Chicago @fooddepository.bsky.social
With friends from @cclusa.org, we made about a million potato bags, which were then filled with 13,800 lbs of potatoes
Makes u think about big numbers. 8B people on the planet and they all deserve more potatoes...
With friends from @cclusa.org, we made about a million potato bags, which were then filled with 13,800 lbs of potatoes
Makes u think about big numbers. 8B people on the planet and they all deserve more potatoes...
It's still spring, but this is the feeling I'm going for all year:
"There was so much time that wonderful summer..."
"...I'd like this to go on and on, no-one going, no-one coming, autumn and winter always loitering around the corner..."
-A Month in the Country
#booksky #writer #spring #summer
"There was so much time that wonderful summer..."
"...I'd like this to go on and on, no-one going, no-one coming, autumn and winter always loitering around the corner..."
-A Month in the Country
#booksky #writer #spring #summer
May 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The #chicago outdoor #farmersmarkets are BACK baby!
I literally saw snow on my roadtrip a week ago, and now I'm eating #local ramps and tomatoes???
Tho, if I'm honest, I will sliiightly miss my winter market root vegetable lifestyle lol
#sustainability #farms #food
I literally saw snow on my roadtrip a week ago, and now I'm eating #local ramps and tomatoes???
Tho, if I'm honest, I will sliiightly miss my winter market root vegetable lifestyle lol
#sustainability #farms #food
April 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The #chicago outdoor #farmersmarkets are BACK baby!
I literally saw snow on my roadtrip a week ago, and now I'm eating #local ramps and tomatoes???
Tho, if I'm honest, I will sliiightly miss my winter market root vegetable lifestyle lol
#sustainability #farms #food
I literally saw snow on my roadtrip a week ago, and now I'm eating #local ramps and tomatoes???
Tho, if I'm honest, I will sliiightly miss my winter market root vegetable lifestyle lol
#sustainability #farms #food
They shut Lincoln Square in #chicago to cars all week for construction, and EVERYONE was out having fun
Just a sign that we desperately need 3rd places in the US.
@blockclubchi.bsky.social has a great article on the closure
blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/21/h...
#spring #writer #policy #carfree
Just a sign that we desperately need 3rd places in the US.
@blockclubchi.bsky.social has a great article on the closure
blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/21/h...
#spring #writer #policy #carfree
April 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
They shut Lincoln Square in #chicago to cars all week for construction, and EVERYONE was out having fun
Just a sign that we desperately need 3rd places in the US.
@blockclubchi.bsky.social has a great article on the closure
blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/21/h...
#spring #writer #policy #carfree
Just a sign that we desperately need 3rd places in the US.
@blockclubchi.bsky.social has a great article on the closure
blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/21/h...
#spring #writer #policy #carfree