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Jall Barret
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Independent writer and IT professional. My upcoming series is scifi adventure. I'm excited to publish my first audiobook.

✍🏻 https://jallbarret.writeas.com
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Through the studious application of "waiting until Charlie had abandoned it," Roscoe has gotten the top of the tower. Although I think victory is a little less sweet since Charlie intentionally chose the middle cube when he returned to the tower.

(The salty look is because I was taking a photo.)
Grey cat with a salty look on his face and white markings on his nose and back feet. He's about to sit down on the top cushion of a tower.
December 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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After a long day supervising his humans, Charlie has decided to take the rest of the day off.
A closeup of a black "tuxedo cat" curled up in a grey bed. His head is pushed into the cushion and his rear feet are up. Despite appearances, he gets brushed regularly regardless of how little he likes it. 😹
December 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The way I see it, I'm either in a horror movie or a cheesy holiday romance. Please be cheesy holiday romance!
A fortune that says: A mysterious stranger will enter your life and change everything.
December 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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In New Names, Old Crimes, the crew of the Scampering Pete must solve the mystery of the disappearances on Chewa Fal. Buy the adventure today!

On www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... and more books2read.com/u/49BXOX !

💙📚🪐 #ReaderSky #SciFi #ScienceFiction
The cover of Vay Ideal Book 2: New Names, Old Crimes by Jall Barret. On the cover, a red, metallic, rectangular ship flies high in the sky outside a walled city at dusk. Aurora fills the sky. The book cover floats above an alien landscape. Text surrounding the cover highlights these features: - Victims missing without a trace - Impoverished working town - Useful eWaste - Action adventure - Ensemble cast - Space opera - Available on Kindle, Kobo, Smashwords, and more! Image by Sergei Tokmakov on Pixabay
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Share the love! Be sure to tell your friends about your favorite indie authors!
A pair of meerkats share a secret. Top text says Support Indie Authors! Middle and bottom text say: Did you love it? Tell a friend! Image by Stephan Fuchs on Pixabay
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Juan Emanuel Rodriguez Galanis hasn't shared a thing with a soul in years. When things go wrong, he finds an opportunity he thought had passed him by. Friendship and camaraderie!

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Juan Emanuel Rodriguez Galanis's tongue is as sharp as his knives. Unfortunately, his knives are packed away for the journey to Oshang Daro. Can an adventure that began with death really be the chance for a new life? Find out in Death In Transit now on Amazon & more! jallbarret.writeas.com/death-in-transit Background by Vivek Sonkar from Pixabay
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Fixed. D2D was the hardest. Kobo was the easiest. KDP was closer to D2D on difficulty.

Not sure when fixes will show. I'll give it a day and plan for big push on Friday.

HOWEVER, if you can see it, even with the wrong cover, feel free to buy New Names, Old Crimes. It should update automatically.
Vay Ideal - Book 2. Old Names, New Crimes by Jall Barret. A shiny, metal, red box flies over a sky outside a walled city built on a hill. The sky is dark but has stars and hints of an aurora.
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"We didn't abuse anybody but, if we did, it's ok because it's our constitutional right."

Wild. 🙄

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Whaley has denied that she or other church leaders ever abused Word of Faith members. She has also said that any discipline would be protected by the Constitution's freedom of religion tenet.
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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A medical emergency leaves the passengers of the Scampering Pete fending for themselves! They face pirates, mechanical issues, and more in Death In Transit!

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... and more books2read.com/u/4751J7 !

💙📚🪐 #ReaderSky #SciFi #ScienceFiction
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Button pushed on Book 2.
Vay Ideal - Book 2. Old Names, New Crimes by Jall Barret. A shiny, red metal box flies outside the walls of a city. The sky is a night sky with an aurora.
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

A medical emergency leaves the passengers of the Scampering Pete fending for themselves! They face pirates, mechanical issues, and more in Death In Transit!

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... and more books2read.com/u/4751J7
An untimely death is just the beginning of the adventure! Five strangers experience an adventure beset by mechanical issues, space pirates, a poorly trained police force, and a business opportunity! Now available on Amazon and more! jallbarret.writeas.com/death-in-transit Starry Sky Night Stars by Felix Mittermeier The cover of the book is shown on the left side of the graphic. It features a space ship flying away from a fuchsia planet. The text on the cover is Vay Ideal - Book 1, Death In Transit, Jall Barret.
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Doing a bit of art today. I really liked the art that Anat Zhukoff did (that I borrowed in last week's blog). I couldn't find anything that matched the vibe but had what I needed so I looked up how to make an isometric grid in Inkscape and then put this together.
An isometric illustration of a laptop. The lid of the laptop is open. The display shows an orange padlock on a green field. The body of the laptop is blue. The keyboard keys are fuschsia or green. The laptop floats above the background. The background is a fuchsia color.
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Since I'm using three mics for the Book 2 reading tonight (and I have a tight window for recording), I did a test setup of my mics. It would have been illogical not to capture this historical evidence.
A white person with very short hair, wearing a rainbow star trek delta shirt. They have one eyebrow raised and are doing a vulcan salute. Obscuring their face are two microphones, an H1n recorder, and a pop filter.
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Got a bit of seasonal flash horror for you!

🩸📚😱 #Horror
Wrapped By Jall Barret There's a song on your Wrapped. It's the top of your list but you've never heard of it before. You go to social media. Everyone's talking about the same song. No one else has heard of it either. The statistics say you've listened to it so many times. More than a hundred thousand times this year. That could only be true if you were listening to it whenever you weren't listening to something else. You press play. There's a song on your Wrapped. It's the top of your list but ... Find my books at JallBarret.writeas.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Check out my scifi adventure story, Death In Transit. Mechanical issues aren't the only interruption in Lia Conway's unplanned vacation. Can her skills help her to build a new life?

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Lia Conway's unscheduled vacation threatens to strand her in the middle of nowhere if she can't figure out how to get the transport working again. Could the trouble provide an opportunity for the next phase of her life? Find out in Death In Transit now on Amazon and more! jallbarret.writeas.com/death-in-transit Background image is Starry Sky Night Stars by Felix Mittermeier.
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Support an indie author by reading my scifi adventure story, Death In Transit. Can Greis, a Duwgian trader, keep human passengers from messing up the business opportunity of a lifetime?

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... and more books2read.com/u/4751J7 !

#BookSky #ReaderSky #SciFi #ScienceFiction
Greis is a Duwgian trader looking for new opportunities. When the ship's captain takes ill, the dangers are almost as serious as the opportunities! Can he keep his human passengers from making life-threatening mistakes? Find out in Death In Transit now on Amazon and more! jallbarret.writeas.com/death-in-transit Background image is Starry Sky Night Stars by Felix Mittermeier.
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Without the title block.
A book cover for Vay Ideal - Book 2 by Jall Barret. A red blocky lifeboat hovers over the skies outside a walled city. A ship is on the ground outside the wall. The title text has been hidden.
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Blender and I are having a misunderstanding.
A red, metal brick with a glass viewport flies high above the exterior of a scifi walled city. Outside the wall of the city sits a space ship. Everything looks goofy as hell because an innocent-looking Blender setting has rendered everything bright as hell.
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Post your favourite LOTR character. Wrong answers only.

IYKYK
Zathras and Ivanova facing each other in the great machine. Ivanova has her fingers partially interlocked and listens as Zathras says something.
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Giving a rough idea of what the general concept is for the cover of book two. No colors applied and the title is a placeholder.

(The book does have a name but I'm keeping it under my hat for the moment.)
New Title, New Title by Jall Barret. A greyscale 3D image showing a blocky lifeboat flying above a barren patch of world in front of a city.
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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The text 'news about your kidnapping victims?' with a modal titled Capitalization. The body of the modal says 'The canonical dictionary spelling is news.' It offers to correct 'news' to 'news' or to dismiss it or report it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Since you are a grammar checker rather than a spell checker, I would appreciate using the context to divine that the locale Odesa will not be visiting another locale. 🤣
The text "As Odessa come back here?" with a modal above it titled Word Choice. The modal says "This place has been officiallly known as 'Odesa' since 1992" and offers the option to 'correct' the text to Odesa, dismiss the prompt, or report an issue.
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Making some bloopers while doing the dry run on recording the next book in the series. Shared here for your enjoyment. 😹
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
A meme with two images. The top image is a rusted out bus body, missing the bits that should go under the hood. It's backed into a parking space in front of a tree. Top text reads 'An old bus.' Bottom image is an ancient Egyptian statue of a god with a canine head. Bottom text is an ellipsis.
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Looking to support independent authors on Buy Nothing Day? You can buy my science fiction adventure novella, Death In Transit, on Smashwords!

www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

I've got a free preview of the book on my blog today:

jallbarret.writeas.com/death-in-tra...

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An untimely death is just the beginning of the adventure! Five strangers experience an adventure beset by mechanical issues, space pirates, a poorly trained police force, and a business opportunity! Available on Smashwords and more! jallbarret.writeas.com/death-in-transit Starry Sky Night Stars by Felix Mittermeier The cover of the book is shown on the left side of the graphic. It features a space ship flying away from a fuchsia planet. The text on the cover is Vay Ideal - Book 1, Death In Transit, Jall Barret.
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM