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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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Now on Facebook and BlueSky!

Blelo evwebody! (I love Tiny Chef.)

Just wanted to drop a note and let you know I know have an official author Facebook page, and an official BlueSky page, JCDKerwin. The FB url right now is a bit wonky; I’m trying to figure things out.

For now, this is the link for my FB: https://www.facebook.com/share/15e6ZvTxV1/

The FB page is JCD Kerwin.

My BlueSky account is @jcdkerwin.bsky.social

I hope you’ll join me in my adventures! ☺️

-J

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18 April, 2025

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New Book Published

Hello, everybody. My science fiction crime drama, Code of Murder, has been published and is now available on Amazon in e-book and paperback formats. 🙂

Here is the back cover copy:

“In a near-future metropolis where technology blurs the lines between life and death, Detective Cordell Washington is thrust into a maelstrom of brutal murders and digital horror. When a series of meticulously staged crime scenes and eerie links to a legacy serial killer emerge, Cordell finds his grasp on reality and justice slipping away. With the ominous Genesys System promising eternal life yet concealing ominous secrets, every revelation forces him to confront not only a twisted killer but also the darkness within himself. As stakes reach a fever pitch, Cordell must decipher clues that could either shatter his world or deliver him from the relentless nightmare threatening to consume him.”

If you like crime, thriller, mystery, or science fiction, or just reading (maybe?), I invite you to check it out. 🙂

Of course I’m back to thinking it’s terrible. 😦 I was just looking at all the releases on Amazon and just noticing I’m just a tiny voice in a sea of yelling and screaming writers wanting to be heard. Yeah, I’m “special.” Just like everyone else. I only hope that people like it and don’t think it’s complete shite. I would hate for big crime junkies to read it and give me terrible reviews and say it’s awful. 😦 I guess we’ll see.

Anyway, I am happy I finished it and it’s up and out there. The next one that I will be publishing is my science fiction space opera novella. I’m nervous about that one, too. (Me? No!)

Happy reading,

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In Line with the Best?

Hello! I’m back.

And I’ve been writing furiously! Hurray!

Surprising, isn’t it? In my last post, I said I wasn’t going to think about what other people are doing anymore, and I’m not. So, I finished my space opera novella and I finished my science fiction crime drama. 🙂 I’m very pleased. Now I’m getting ready to publish them both.

I broke down and bought AutoCrit. You know, that really popular editing/critiquing/whatever software many writers use to help them with their work. I wasn’t going to pay for such a thing, but I really want my work to be the best it can be. Well, I used it’s fiction analyzer tool on both my novels and I was shocked, utterly shocked, to see that my overall “score” for both of them was in the percentile: “in line with bestseller expectations.” I was very happy and surprised. (Because I think my writing is shit, remember.) I was floored. Still, I made many edits and took many of the software’s suggestions and improved both works. I am now happy and pleased with both of them. I hope other people will like them.

I am going to move on to writing the first book in my cozy mystery series. 🙂 I also have another crime comedy book I am working on, too. That one has a vampire in it. It’s fun. 🙂 I am quite motivated to write. I am liking this feeling a lot. I am having fun again! ❤

-J