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24 October, 2025

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It’s Electric, Boogie Woogie

Blelo, evwebody!

It has been a busy summer into fall.

A cool thing that happened was that my science fiction crime drama, Code of Murder, won a 2025 International Impact Book Award and got the finalist medal in the Science Fiction-Suspense Category of the Global Book Awards. That was really cool. :o)

I am still trying to get my books/me out there. It is very hard. I only have 7 ratings on Code of Murder on Amazon. Marketing is very hard when you don’t have a marketing department behind you or your own publicist. But how are indie authors supposed to afford that? And then the emails you get from individual people claiming to promise to put you and your books in front of people are very sketchy and you know you’d end up paying them hundreds of dollars.

Anyway, I have a cool new website and everything. And I got a Goodreads author account, too.

So I have put myself out there in lots of places.

In a couple weekends I am doing something scary. I am going to be at my first-ever in-person author event. O_O It’s at a local library. They’re having lots of local authors come and sell their books and meet the community. I’ll have a table where I’ll be signing and selling my books, and giving away bookmarks, business cards, and some funky pens I found. :o) It is a great opportunity to get my face out there! But I am very scared and nervous. I hope I don’t chicken out. :o( M is being very supportive. He is going to come with me and help me stay strong….. I just hope I can do it!

Attempting to start some more stories, too. I hope fall will be a good writing time.

Next week is Halloween. My second favorite holiday! I’m so excited! I love October. My second favorite month (also my birth month). ^_^

Happy writing, happy reading, and happy All Hallows Eve!

-J

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“Dear JCD Kerwin,
Thank you for sharing your query for [title of novel] with us. We would love to take a look at your manuscript….”

Shut the front door.

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And then I Tebow’d on the 15th green.

M and I took the day off to go golfing. Mostly because M really needed a day off and, well, I never take days off. (That’s called dedication! …Or guilt. I haven’t decided which one.)

We’re pretty interesting golfers. And it’s not because we don’t like playing with strangers or hate being rushed. Nahhhh, it’s probably because we’re not very good. But! Watching the two of us play golf is a fantastic way for pros to get their jollies. Although, M is way better at golf than I. It’s pathetic, really. Not because M’s better, but because a golfcourse runs through my grandparents’ backyard and growing up, I had plenty of opportunity to play…Although I did catch a whole lot of nightcrawlers on that golfcourse. That’s gotta count for something.

M looks a lot like this playing golf:

Jerk.

Evidently M even got a birdie, though I did not see it. Suspicious? I think so. (It was actually a pretty epic shot.)

I question the validity of this “birdie.”

And me? Well, I look a lot more like this playing golf:

Those aren’t tears of joy, you know.

I didn’t do all that bad, though. I did rather well the last few holes. My putting is exceptional. And by exceptional, I mean I could kick any eight year old’s ass at a mini-golf birthday extravangza.

And then I inadvertantly Tebow’d picking up my ball. I think it was a sign. I’m not sure what kind of sign. Maybe that I should try a different sport? Or maybe that if Tim Tebow can defy the odds, so can I? Or maybe it’s just that I should tie my shoelaces because I tend to trip over them.