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William Lejeune
@williamlejeune.com
Writer. CITY OF RAIN available now on Amazon in paperback and Kindle Select. THE BRIGHT VALE coming 2026.
http://williamlejeune.com
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Hi, I'm the author of CITY OF RAIN, the first in a series of epic fantasy novels, available from Amazon in paperback and Kindle Unlimited: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNPXMSQ2

Here's what Kirkus Reviews had to say: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
I maintain that REM's Green is a great album but I will concede that Pop Song 89 was an early sign of decline setting in:

When Can You Be Disappointed by an Album? www.indignity.net/everything-is-oldies/
Everything is oldies
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 178
www.indignity.net
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Imagine writing this about any other children's literature, the weird flex that the author is somehow required to keep pace with whatever is happening with Rupert Bear, say, or Worzel Gummidge:

observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Harry Potter and the deathly rehash culture | The Observer
It’s been 30 years and the Potterverse is still expanding. I’m ready to leave it behind
observer.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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If the New York Times decided to run nonstop coverage in favor of boll weevil blights, a certain subset of intelligent, graceful literary writers, not known till now for being pro-agricultural plague, would find themselves fruitfully grappling with thoughts about the role weevils play in their lives
July 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Is there a word in German for "movie which you missed at the cinema but you read the reviews for and you were excited to see it, but now it's finally out on streaming and somehow you can no longer muster the enthusiasm to watch it"?
July 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Has anyone checked whether downtown LA happens to have deposits of deep substrate foliated Kalkite?
June 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A film that takes place where you're from
April 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Team Miyazaki Forever.
March 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Look, I'm not a fancy CEO guy, but if someone said to me "the key to this successful single-player IP's success is to make it purely a multiplayer game. No, not a spin off: fundamentally change the DNA of what people loved about the core game" to me, I'd probably, like, quit that job or something.
February 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book.

"Keener heard it first."
Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.

"Our second case was a real humdinger, which everyone knows is the most challenging variety of dinger."
Authors if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.

“This is a book about how magic disappears.”
February 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"A change, not an end."
January 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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January 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Sending love out to every author who learned that their publisher’s marketing plan for their new book was to have an intern visit a remote woodland in winter, dig a hole in the frozen earth, and whisper their book’s title once, ‘neath the crescent moon.
December 30, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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Envy, ego, pride and pain: what I learned from publishing my first book | Hamilton Nolan
Envy, ego, pride and pain: what I learned from publishing my first book | Hamilton Nolan
Years torturing yourself before a blank page are followed by months of scrambling for publicity, followed by oblivion There are only two types of people who make the mistake of writing a book: non-writers, who don’t know any better; and writers, who can…
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December 29, 2024 at 11:27 AM
In honour of this week's exodus from an undesirable place, CITY OF RAIN will be free on Kindle all this weekend, starting Sat at 8am GMT. It's 730 pages worth of epic fantasy. Tell a friend. Go nuts:

Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNPXMSQ2
Amazon US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNPXMSQ2
November 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Hi, I'm the author of CITY OF RAIN, the first in a series of epic fantasy novels, available from Amazon in paperback and Kindle Unlimited: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNPXMSQ2

Here's what Kirkus Reviews had to say: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
November 10, 2024 at 12:36 PM