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W. James Chan, Author
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I'm W. James Chan. He/Him/Human https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- all about my books https://ko-fi.com/wjameschan -- here you can get my ebooks for free/PWYW, and read my reviews of indie gems Member of the Inkslingers Idiots PDNI
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · Aug 21
Tired of Amazon getting a cut? Just want to read high-quality dark literary fantasy? Grab both BLACKCLOAK and GILDENHAMMER for FREE/Pay what you want here:
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Get two excellent literary fantasy novels for the price of none! Add both Blackcloak and Gildenhammer to your digital library today! Free/Pay what you want at: https://ko-fi.com/wjameschan (Paperbacks also available at Barnes & Noble) [Cover images of W. James Chan's novels Blackcloak and Gildenhammer] "As if David Lynch rewrote the works of George R..R. Martin" Kirkus "Reads like poetry from its very first line" Self-Publishing Review "Deftly combines psychology, magic and philosophy" IndieReader "A new brand of sophistication in the fantasy genre" San Francisco Book Review "Immersive, emotionally resonant, and intellectually stimulating" BookViral
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 16h
That last line makes me wish, just for once, the maga fuckers were right. So far, crickets. As fucking usual. Let's just keep cheering on the systematic carving up of Palestine...

Source: HCR, October 14th, 2025
Today, Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo of Politico reported on 2,900 pages of messages exchanged on the messaging app Telegram between leaders of the hardline pro-Trump factions of Young Republican groups in New York, Kansas, Arizona, and Vermont. In the edgy messages, the leaders used racist themes and epithets freely and cheered slavery, rape, gas chambers, and torturing their opponents. They expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler. One of them wrote to the others, “If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked [for real for real].” Source: HCR, October 14th 2025
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 21h
The theatre of it all is plainly sickening. A victory lap for immense, bald-faced global corruption profiteering from a genocide. All over the last handful of hostages, yet Biden secured the freedom for the *vast* majority of them last year, and maga vilified him.

And he still thanked T***p.
FFS.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 1d
🎵 The chances of anyone coming from ICE

Are a million to one, we said

The chances of anyone coming from ICE

Are a million to one

but still,

they come. 🎵
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 1d
Please note: this is not from a comedy site or a blog. This is ABC News' top story by its global affairs editor.

The gap between truthtelling and telling the truth widens, but sometimes it does so like a desperate grin.
"So much of the coverage of what has been happening — like almost global stories these days — has focused on Tr**p, his role in the deal and his big … personality." Source: ABC News Australia
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 2d
The grift that keeps on...
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 2d
Not. Like. It's. Hard. To. See. When. They. Know. They. Don't. Have. To. Hide. It...
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 16d
Always look for the grift.

Always.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 3d
Saw some suspiciously familiar artwork and character design at a local handicrafts market and thought, well, at least it's not Slop -- and then I realised fuck me that's where we are now. That's how low the bar has dropped. Human-made but low on originality is still human fucking made. Chrrrrist.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 3d
Between the insanely gorgeous Don Bluth style of "Bye Sweet Carole" and a remaster of the cutesy 2008 mmo "Wizard 101" both hitting ps5 now, I guess I'm just feeling comfortably ancient today. :)
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 4d
Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Alone In The Dark
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Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · 4d
Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Kill Bill
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Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 4d
John Carpenter's Gone in 60 Seconds
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 4d
Those Who Sling Ink
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 4d
I was genuinely curious about the background of Klimar Albrego Garcia after so much noise, so I did some digging. In the end I found a NYT deep dive from May that seems almost unrealistically well-researched and written in this day and age.

This day and age where .gov just means "maga propaganda".
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 4d
As a reader, I do love a bargain. But as a writer, seeing this much overlooked talent at that price point *guts* me.

And sooner or later, as indies, we have to identify as one over the other.

Purchased nonetheless. Also I should be on such a list but eh I'm already free-to-read so w/e
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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 4d
Marketing is hard. #Book marketing is super hard. Getting reviews for those books is harder still. Here we have a #collection of #SFF books that seem to largely fall between the cracks of easily defined genres, deserving of some attention.

Maybe check 'em out.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 4d
Marketing is hard. #Book marketing is super hard. Getting reviews for those books is harder still. Here we have a #collection of #SFF books that seem to largely fall between the cracks of easily defined genres, deserving of some attention.

Maybe check 'em out.

itch.io/b/3305/under...

#sale 🧡🚀📚
Graphic for the "underrated book bundle" on Itch, depicting a number of books surrounding the text graphic. The text reads: "Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." Graphic for the "underrated book bundle" on Itch, depicting a number of books surrounding the text graphic. The text reads: "Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." Graphic for the "underrated book bundle" on Itch, depicting a number of books surrounding the text graphic. The text reads: "Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." Graphic for the "underrated book bundle" on Itch, depicting a number of books surrounding the text graphic. The text reads: "Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of."
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 4d
Man the US has a *wild* history with planes when it comes to the Middle East
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 5d
EAT SHIT, TRUMP.

(NGL I was ready to be physically ill if he won. I'm a gen X kid and for whatever reason the Nobel Prize still means something to me. It's just hard-coded after 40+ years of revering its winners.)
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 5d
I dunno. Long ago, I tried to educate my five-year-old then stepson on basic grammar 5 days a week (eg "Don't have, not don't got, kiddo") when his deadbeat birthdad happily undid it all the other 2. No winning that one. Turns out the kid was just ahead of his time I guess. Heh.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 5d
Quick tech question guys. If I want to change the extension of a hidden file, should I make it .PDF or .IDF?
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 5d
Idk maybe they should just rename it from "Justice Department" to "Justice Gang"
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 5d
That's why I can't do it. I used to offer "manuscript assessment" back in the 2010s: a catch-all for anything related to improving a WIP. Dev, line, proof. Intense, rewarding...not cheap. I massively undercharged. But I couldn't give less than my all.

Now I do it for free and call it "feedback". :)
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 6d
Just rubbling a last one out before No Nut November I guess

Source: ABC News Australia
Screenshot of a news article saying "Trump says Israeli hostages should be released Monday or Tuesday" with another article under it saying "Israel strikes Gaza, three dozen people missing". Source: ABC News Australia
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 6d
How do you know it's The Real DJT and not Miller's WaIdopuppet? He says utterly unhinged shit like this that drives no narrative beyond "this dude is fucking insane".
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 6d
On one hand: yay finally got all of Twin Peaks on Bluray
On the other: it's 21 freakin discs
On the other other: it came in the worst packaging I've ever seen. Discs were like stacked on top of each other. Loose. In an official case.

Good thing I am trained in 90s CD book folder jutsu.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 6d
Pam Bondi is Kim Wexler if Kim Wexler were both not hot and totally shit at her job
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 6d
Was it worth it, you smug shit? Was it?

Calling off a sustained, globally recognised genocide isn't a "peace deal" and the Nobel committee hopefully isn't going to go, "oh look, the evil old men aren't genociding a helpless populace anymore, what mighty fine menschen they are!"

Image: The Guardian
Picture of an old Jewish man smirking with the text "Gaza aid restrictionsAlmost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates" beneath it. Source: The Guardian, 9th October 2025
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 7d
Slike I always been sayin
Mericas got plenary problems
n no king idea how to fix em
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