Mike Jasper
@michaeljasper.bsky.social
Fiction and technical writer, amateur farmer, horse husband (no, not like that!), avid reader, dad of two, chicken wrangler, indie publisher. He/him. Always working on five things at once. https://www.patreon.com/MichaelJasper
https://michaeljasper.net
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Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
This was a great article, made me smile, and reminded me not to self-edit:
sfalexandria.com/posts/rileys... (hat tip to Tim Ferriss’s Friday newsletter)
sfalexandria.com/posts/rileys... (hat tip to Tim Ferriss’s Friday newsletter)
Training the Idea Muscle
Riley Walz on creating viral internet pranks
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December 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This was a great article, made me smile, and reminded me not to self-edit:
sfalexandria.com/posts/rileys... (hat tip to Tim Ferriss’s Friday newsletter)
sfalexandria.com/posts/rileys... (hat tip to Tim Ferriss’s Friday newsletter)
Rolled over the 100k mark for new words written this year! It's been a long time since I wrote this much (I had a 5+ year hiatus from about mid-2018 to early 2024). So excuse me while I brag on myself! :)
December 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Rolled over the 100k mark for new words written this year! It's been a long time since I wrote this much (I had a 5+ year hiatus from about mid-2018 to early 2024). So excuse me while I brag on myself! :)
It's about to be sequel time! "As I Still Lay Dying"...
Or maybe not... lol
Or maybe not... lol
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
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💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's about to be sequel time! "As I Still Lay Dying"...
Or maybe not... lol
Or maybe not... lol
Finally finished writing that dang chapter that I’d been stuck on (in) forever. And now it has an ending I didn’t see coming. Sweet….
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Finally finished writing that dang chapter that I’d been stuck on (in) forever. And now it has an ending I didn’t see coming. Sweet….
If you haven’t been reading, you’ve been missing out.
Haunted real estate meets true Florida history in the first part of my next RED LIGHT PROPERTIES story “Cowboys & Indians”: kinjin.co/cowboys-indi...
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If you haven’t been reading, you’ve been missing out.
Today is the go-live day for my historical and (hopefully) humorous (with a hint of the fantastic) novel Augie and Ozzy Take Back the Mountain!!
It’s alive! (and two weeks early!)
Today is the go-live day for my historical and (hopefully) humorous (with a hint of the fantastic) novel Augie and Ozzy Take Back the Mountain!! This book was a lot of fun to write, even if it took me quite a while to pull it all together after my 5+ year long hiatus when I didn't write a THING. I wrote most of it while my wife was taking classes and doing the research and writing for her doctorate.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Today is the go-live day for my historical and (hopefully) humorous (with a hint of the fantastic) novel Augie and Ozzy Take Back the Mountain!!
Aww, that nice person in my email wants to give my novel “the visibility it deserves.”
I guess the first step would be getting the title right in the email… they weren’t even close! lol
I guess the first step would be getting the title right in the email… they weren’t even close! lol
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Aww, that nice person in my email wants to give my novel “the visibility it deserves.”
I guess the first step would be getting the title right in the email… they weren’t even close! lol
I guess the first step would be getting the title right in the email… they weren’t even close! lol
This is the story I've been waiting almost a year to share with the world.
New story over at Patreon!
This is the story I've been waiting almost a year to share with the world. It's a tall tale of sorts, kind of an alternate history story that features actual people and actual events, along with my very fictional characters and my fictional take on what happened one day up on Grandfather Mountain in the summer of 1974... It's part of my upcoming novel, …
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December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This is the story I've been waiting almost a year to share with the world.
Nice one, Onion!!
Terry Gross Conducts ‘Fresh Air’ Interview On Bluetooth During Uber Shift
https://theonion.com/terry-gross-conducts-fresh-air-interview-on-bluetooth-during-uber-shift/
https://theonion.com/terry-gross-conducts-fresh-air-interview-on-bluetooth-during-uber-shift/
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Nice one, Onion!!
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Hey, folks, please consider grabbing a copy of this anthology. I hope to keep it going.
Great anthology with a strong selection of stories that run the wide spectrum of weird. Horror, fantasy and sci-fi are all here, along with just plain odd and eerie tales.
The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Volume 1, curated by Michael Kelly, @undertow.bsky.social.
The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Volume 1, curated by Michael Kelly, @undertow.bsky.social.
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hey, folks, please consider grabbing a copy of this anthology. I hope to keep it going.
Oh snap, time to take a road trip to the Osher Map Library!!!
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world. n.pr/44Ognqv
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine library brings maps to life
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.
n.pr
December 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Oh snap, time to take a road trip to the Osher Map Library!!!
It's kind of great when you find the right images and put them together and it's... magic:
Sometimes the covers just… come together
It's kind of great when you find the right images and put them together and it's... magic. Very happy with this cover for my upcoming Patreon story in a week or two. Spoiler alert: it's an Augie and Ozzy story set in 1974, with a special guest star or two! Coming soon...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It's kind of great when you find the right images and put them together and it's... magic:
Get thee to a great big monitor for this!
With the Christmas season looming again, it’s a good reason to lose yourself in this wonderfully detailed illustration by Roberto Innocenti for Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1990 edn). Be sure to click it for the full effect
December 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Get thee to a great big monitor for this!
“Barf machine operator”…. Wonder what that pays?
Along with mislabeled episodes, crew members can be seen in the background of a Season One episode as Roger Sterling pukes on the carpet of Sterling Cooper.
'Mad Men' Hits HBO Max With Goofy Errors, Including Visible Barf Machine Operators
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December 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Barf machine operator”…. Wonder what that pays?
I can highly recommend this!
Anyway, this Cyber Monday, support a newly minted full-time freelancer by joining my Patreon! Get a new story every month and a decade or archives!
www.patreon.com/timpratt
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December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I can highly recommend this!
I need to buy an RLP T-shirt for myself for Xmas…
Kinjin Storylab's 2025 Holiday Sale gives 25% off most items (incl. RLP: UNFINISHED BUSINESS deluxe HCs) plus a WEEKLY NEW ITEM DROP every Sunday through Dec 24. First up:
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I need to buy an RLP T-shirt for myself for Xmas…
For the month of December, the good folks at UnWrecked Press are including two of my novels in a new fantasy and paranormal series sale at https://books.bookfunnel.com/fantasy-paranormal-series-sale/8pvnre1d2l!!
New ebook sales!
For the month of December, the good folks at UnWrecked Press are including two of my novels in a new Fantasy & Paranormal Series sale!! So if you're looking for some great fantasy reads at great prices, check out the sale for a wide range of fantasy, from paranormal to urban to sword and sorcery, and more. These two series starters, …
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December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
For the month of December, the good folks at UnWrecked Press are including two of my novels in a new fantasy and paranormal series sale at https://books.bookfunnel.com/fantasy-paranormal-series-sale/8pvnre1d2l!!
My 18-y.o. picked up @stephenking.bsky.social's THE STAND a month ago (at an actual BOOK store), and he's tearing through it as fast as he can. It's been a blast reliving the end of the world with him. Bonus: we get to watch the still-pretty-awesome 1994 adaption as soon as he finishes a section!
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
My 18-y.o. picked up @stephenking.bsky.social's THE STAND a month ago (at an actual BOOK store), and he's tearing through it as fast as he can. It's been a blast reliving the end of the world with him. Bonus: we get to watch the still-pretty-awesome 1994 adaption as soon as he finishes a section!
I am furiously trying to get all my website updates (covers! so many covers...) and various marketing stuff (trying out some BookFunnel stuff) and all that other necessary stuff that just EATS up my time by the end of the day today.
So I can focus all December on the New Novel.
Ha. Wish me luck.
So I can focus all December on the New Novel.
Ha. Wish me luck.
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I am furiously trying to get all my website updates (covers! so many covers...) and various marketing stuff (trying out some BookFunnel stuff) and all that other necessary stuff that just EATS up my time by the end of the day today.
So I can focus all December on the New Novel.
Ha. Wish me luck.
So I can focus all December on the New Novel.
Ha. Wish me luck.
It's been a loooong time since I've been able to announce this, but... I have an all-new novel coming out! This new novel is called Augie and Ozzy Take Back the Mountain, and it's a book I've been wanting to write for years.
New novel available to pre-order (at last!)
It's been a loooong time since I've been able to announce this, but... I have an all-new novel coming out! This new novel is called Augie and Ozzy Take Back the Mountain, and it's a book I've been wanting to write for years, for a number of reasons. First, I've always wanted to write something set in the '70s, just because I feel like that's a somewhat forgotten decade (everyone's into the '80s and '90s these days, it seems!).
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November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It's been a loooong time since I've been able to announce this, but... I have an all-new novel coming out! This new novel is called Augie and Ozzy Take Back the Mountain, and it's a book I've been wanting to write for years.
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Your occasional reminder that @bookshop.org is open for all of your Christmas book shopping needs. Every sale supports independent bookstores, the books arrive beautifully packaged, and they even have gift wrapping options.
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
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Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookshops.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookshops.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Your occasional reminder that @bookshop.org is open for all of your Christmas book shopping needs. Every sale supports independent bookstores, the books arrive beautifully packaged, and they even have gift wrapping options.
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Having worked repetitive and harsh jobs on farms and in a factory or two, I have nothing but respect for the folks who do these jobs for years (and not just on summer breaks while in college, like me!). My wrists hurt just watching this clip...
Thank you!!
Thank you!!
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Having worked repetitive and harsh jobs on farms and in a factory or two, I have nothing but respect for the folks who do these jobs for years (and not just on summer breaks while in college, like me!). My wrists hurt just watching this clip...
Thank you!!
Thank you!!
This month's Patreon story! Set in the early months of 1974, this story gives us some back-story on these two shady fellows from my Finder Team novels, and hopefully it shines some light on why they became the scoundrels the are in the present time.
New story/novel excerpt at my Patreon page
All right, here we go! My Patreon page is all set up for this month's story, "Take Back the Mountain." Just a heads-up that the stories are no longer free. You'll have to throw in a little bit of coffee money to read each month's story (I tried to get it down to the absolutely lowest amount per month). For a very, very small fee, you get early access to this story, which also serves as the first chapter to my similarly named novel, …
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November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This month's Patreon story! Set in the early months of 1974, this story gives us some back-story on these two shady fellows from my Finder Team novels, and hopefully it shines some light on why they became the scoundrels the are in the present time.