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J.A. Prentice
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social
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He/they. SFWA Member. Stories published with Apex, Kaleidotrope, Big Finish, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Magazine of F&SF, Cast of Wonders, and more!
j.a.prenticewrites@gmail.com is my work contact email.
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Look on my Award Eligible works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Awards Eligibility 2025 Bells Long Silent - Cast of Wonders 641 The Seeds of Monstrous and Beautiful Things - James Gunn's Ad Astra 16 The Little Deaths of Autumn - Kaleidotrope Autumn 2025 The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night - Apex Magazine 151 Little Thief and the Martyr's Head - Beneath Ceaseless Skies 446
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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I think maybe it was more, actually.
Spotify banner celebrating 20 Years of Pride and Prejudice, featuring an audiobook of the novel and a podcast about the novel. (And the soundtrack for the movie which was actually 20 years ago.)
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Sickos: Yes… ha ha ha… Yes!
October 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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I loved this comic and especially their version of Red Bee. I hope they retcon the regular DC continuity version of him (dead) and use this version instead (cool as hell, gives people organic honey, hates Nazis).
Page from Peacemaker Tries Hard with an older Red Bee (big black-streaked grey beard) in costume (blue boots, red-and-yellow striped leggings, red leotard, puffy pink sleeves, domino mask) saying "They called me... The Red Bee." Panel below of young Red Bee jumping over a fence at some Nazis and shouting "Gird your loins, you Nazi Fucks!" Close on him with fists up saying "The Red Bee is here to kick your cocks off!"
October 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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I'd love to one day see a Tolkien adaptation where the visuals take inspiration from his artwork:
Art of Glaurung the dragon crossing a river. Glaurung's body is bright gold and segmented, his face is green and horned with a flickering red tongue and flames emerging. Snowcapped mountains loom under the rays of a white sun in a grey, streaked sky. Elvish heraldry. All in diamond shapes, some looking like stained glass, all very abstract. A shadowing path going through what looks to be a covered bridge. The skyline is dominated by mountains, behind which the sky is shadow and flame. The sun or moon is a white ring against the black. Painting of a three-peaked mountain rising through the atmosphere—first blue skies with sun to one side and crescent moon to the other, then greyness between layers of cloud, then a starred night with a light blazing on the mountain peak. In the waters by the base of the mountain sits a white ship with a swan head for a prow and a yellow and red sun painted on the sail.
October 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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I have fantastic news for you:
Cover of Captain Marvel JR, where CM Jr (Freddy Freeman) is winning an American Football game against Hitler and a couple other Nazis. Caption reads “Capt Marvel JR carries the ball for democracy!”
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I sincerely believe that this has already happened.
Cover of the Revenge of the Sith novelization by Matt Stover
October 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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OP: I need feminism because when Jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does it she gets burned at the stake. Reply 1: fabulous Reply 2: i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand wher you’re coming from her but they very much did kill jesus
September 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Tweet that says: “Confession: I thought there was some kind of technical definition of a “werd” like I thought you could show it to a plant expert and ask “is this a flower or a weed?” and they could tell you. But no, weed is just a slur for any plant you don’t personally want around” No I am not still on X; I found this screenshot on Tumblr like a normal person.
September 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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I highly recommend @aijiang.bsky.social’s A Palace Near the Wind. The images—like a palace of dead bone encroaching into nature—and themes—resisting against losing self and culture, the way people (sometimes literally) sand themselves down to fit—are very vivid and fresh. Can’t wait for book two!
Cover for A Palace Near the Wind
August 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Alan Lee painting of the Black Gate of Mordor, with Gollum, Frodo, and Sam hiding behind rocks while a column of soldiers passes.
August 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Found the TARDIS
Me in a black jacket and mask standing in front of a TARDIS prop
August 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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More cool things I picked up from tables and the Freebies area!
Various flyers, posters, ads for Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Beneath Ceasless Skies, Norwestcon 26 Plus Susurrus by B Morris Allen and an old issue of Analog with delightfully old-fashioned Viking Warriors on a very pulpy cover
August 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Cool books from cool people I picked up in the Dealer’s Room!
A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World by JR Dawson The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed Menewood by Nicola Griffith
August 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Worldcon being across the street from an Ethel Cain concert was very giving this energy:
That picture of two houses, one all black and one painted purple and magenta with white trim
August 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Worldcon badge with my name on it. Illustration of an astronaut touching a kaleidoscopic curve of light Worldcon program. Cover depicts a sleek dark silver robot catching the arm of a woman in a yellow dress arcing though the air, surrounded by glyph-encircled glowing discs
August 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Worldcon badge with my name on it. Illustration of an astronaut touching a kaleidoscopic curve of light Worldcon program. Cover depicts a sleek dark silver robot catching the arm of a woman in a yellow dress arcing though the air, surrounded by glyph-encircled glowing discs
August 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I have arrived.
Poorly framed photo of me standing in front of a Worldcon sign
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Not bad for quick late night work in Word.
Business card with my name and social media info on it
August 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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That's obviously just a very big Son'a Collector.
The interior of the Son'a collector from Star Trek Insurrection, where the set designers made the BAFFLING choice to surround the set with blue walls that make the whole thing look like an unfinished effect.
August 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Took a decent nature photo for once.
A river, dark and reflective, snaking between banks overgrown with trees and bushes. The sky is marbled with clouds.
July 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Maybe I’m being uncharitable. This is the page.
July 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Ainley sometimes has a version of the Doctor's console room with black walls.
The Ainley Master in a suit with Peri Brown in the Master's TARDIS. The console is the standard Post-Five Doctors TARDIS console, but the walls and columns are black with white roundels
June 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I'm one of the few people who've written more books than they've read.
June 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Shout out to this Weird Guy who inspired part of Bells Long Silent.
Carved humanoid sculpture in a cave used by smugglers. Allegedly of St Cuthbert but with an uncannily not-quite-human face.
June 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM