💫 jackson 💫
LightNews LightNews
banner
jackpbrown.bsky.social
💫 jackson 💫
@jackpbrown.bsky.social
4K followers 230 following 41 posts
pre-order THE REAPER (Del Rey UK, 2025)

https://linktr.ee/jackpbrown

Posts Replies Media Videos
jackpbrown.bsky.social
Surprise paperback reveal!!!

And if you pre-order it online TODAY, you can get it for 25% off! Offer closes midnight FRIDAY. Exclusive to Waterstones.

Use code OCTOBER25 at checkout!
#booksky

www.waterstones.com/book/the-rea...
Waterstones preorder campaign. Use code OCTOBER25 at checkout. Photo of paperback cover of THE REAPER.
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
jackpbrown.bsky.social
my debut urban fantasy, THE REAPER has been out for one week!

Reminder you can get this lovely special edition from The Broken Binding:

thebrokenbindingsub.com/products/the...
July 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
jackpbrown.bsky.social
I wrote about the madness of trad publishing and how I regained a little bit of control from the process.

www.jacksonpbrown.com/writing-blog...
Black writers face tougher challenges maintaining their career if their debut garners soft sales. These mantras veteran authors give to newer ones, of ‘not worrying’ if a debut book doesn’t take off because ‘most people don’t become bestsellers until their seventh, eighth, ninth book!’ are unhelpful to the Black authors who get dropped by their publishers after the first book – of a series! Here’s a few things I did over the past 4 months or so: Studied the successful campaigns of bestselling books to see what I could affordably do. Apparently, character artwork helped Rebecca Yarros entice would-be readers for her series. My art posts have since received higher engagement on Instagram than my others. Ran 2 giveaways with other debut authors (both of whom have more followers than me and are US-based, which increased visibility). Started posting on Threads a lot more, as it has a very supportive, very active Black reader community that has been absolutely fantastic to me and got my Goodreads adds to over 400 in just two days. It also led to a podcast booking with a Black British writer and blogger. Pitched the book to an indie bookshop to do a pre-order campaign, and commissioned artwork and bookplates as gifts for the pre-orders. Pitched the book to a major special editions company. Details are currently being finalised so I won’t announce their name yet, but it looks like I’ll have my dream of a Reaper sprayed edge! And they’ve made a huge order! Pitched the book to an indie book box subscription service. As above, details are being finalised so I won’t announce their name.
April 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
jackpbrown.bsky.social
COVER REVEAL FOR YOUR NEXT FAVOURITE URBAN FANTASY 🎉

The Grim Reaper (reimagined as an African assassin born with a killing curse) teams up with a Jamaican empath to solve crimes in London.

Art by the one and only Raymond Sebastien.

Pre-order here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/455385...
February 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
jackpbrown.bsky.social
Happy debut year to THE REAPER. It comes out in 6 months!!
Pov: you wrote an urban fantasy which reimagines the grime reaper as a polite, tea-drinking supernatural assassin from central Africa who meets a West Indian empath in London and they team up to solve magical crimes whilst also maintaining the secrecy of London's hidden underground city.
January 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
jackpbrown.bsky.social
What if eh?
What if someone wrote an urban fantasy about the Grim Reaper but he's actually an African assassin born with a killing curse who is hired to kill the toffs and aristocrats in London, and he has the power to destroy thousands of people in an instant, and only a West Indian empath can help him control his emotions?
November 20, 2024 at 1:15 AM
jackpbrown.bsky.social
If you're going to YALC this weekend, be on the lookout for ARCs of THE REAPER at the Del Rey table - there'll be a few copies there and this is what they look like in the wild 👇🏾
Copies of a book. THE REAPER
November 14, 2024 at 7:10 PM
jackpbrown.bsky.social
Okay I've been behind on my reading but I managed to read these two kinda problematic BL series and they were really intriguing. Unconventional and unromantic but they tackle that weird obsessive love. Beautifully drawn, too.
October 11, 2023 at 3:15 PM