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Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jason’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jason Pettus
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Former owner of an indie press, currently a freelance developmental editor for self-publishing and small-press authors (email me at ilikejason@gmail.com for more, or see my freelancing website or my Upwork profile). Happy to accept your ARC for review, but be aware that I will treat it like any other book, even if I think it's terrible. I also write about movies at letterboxd.com/jasonpettus. Other interests include cooking, bicycling, international travel, sci-fi universe creation, and being a smartass. Based in Chicago.
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American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
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Chicago After Dark: A City All-Star Student Anthology
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The CCLaP 100: Volume 1
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Blah Blah Blah Heroin
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Year of Peace: A Daily Devotional
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Dreaming of Laura Ingalls
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Is the PESO system good for self-publishing?
Today, a few thoughts on the modern online PESO system of marketing, and how each of the four quadrants might actually be good for the lone self-publisher or small indie press as well
Originally published at the Jason Pettus newsletter on February 2, 2024, and republished here at this website on the same day.
I haven't been shy about sharing in the past that one of the main reasons my own form
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Jason’s Recent Updates
"I am annoyed that I have to give this book two stars instead of one. ANNOYED. For a book written by an editor, good lord did this book need edited. For clarity. For organization. To not sound like a bunch of blog posts cobbled together. To not repeat"
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"Sometimes, when I'm in a masochistic mood, I listen to the Story Grid podcast. In it, Shawn Coyne coaches Some Guy through the process of writing his first novel.
It's jargon-y and self-congratulatory and so, so, so annoying. But it's also probably the" Read more of this review » |
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The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know:
"Have you ever had a conversation with someone that kept interrupting themselves to give you more and more back story? You know the type, when a person says, "OMG I've got to tell you the most amazing thing, but first I want to tell you what made me t"
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| 2026 reads, #33. I’m about to start writing my first-ever romance novel (which I’m doing as a marketing project for my freelance book editor practice), and so this last month I’ve been burning through a ton of books on the subject of three-act story ...more | |
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Write Naked: A Bestseller's Secrets to Writing Romance & Navigating the Path to Success:
"The first section about the writers life was pretty good. I liked the discussion on writers block and jealousy. However once it came to the craft section it was just "here's what i did that was perfect" followed by descriptions of "what" with no desc"
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| 2026 reads, #32. I’m about to start writing my first-ever romance novel (which I’m doing as a marketing project for my freelance book editor practice), and so this last month I’ve been burning through a ton of books on the subject of three-act story ...more | |
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| 2026 reads, #31. I’m about to start writing my first-ever romance novel (which I’m doing as a marketing project for my freelance book editor practice), and so this last month I’ve been burning through a ton of books on the subject of three-act story ...more | |
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| 2026 reads, #30. I’m about to start writing my first-ever romance novel (which I’m doing as a marketing project for my freelance book editor practice), and when I recently told a friend of mine that a heavy theme will be a group of old 1990s Generati ...more | |
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Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme
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| 2026 reads, #29. There’s a longer story here, but as part of my job as a freelance book editor, this year I’ve decided to write and self-publish a romance novel for the very first time; and the first thing I’m doing as part of that is reading a serie ...more | |
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| 2026 reads, #28. Big news -- I’m about to write my first-ever romance novel! I’m doing it mostly as a marketing project for my freelance book editing service; since so many of my clients are self-publishing romance authors, I thought it’d be interest ...more | |
“it never really worked; so the moment the generation after them, the more earnest and naive Millennials, started having discretionary income for the first time, Corporate America instantly switched over to pleasing them, because the vacuous boy bands and insipid reality shows that are now a permanent part of our culture worked a lot better on them than they did the cynical, skeptical, fun-hating Generation X.)”
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Jun 26, 2023 01:00PM
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Yes, we were specifically invited to contribute our coming schedule! If you check out the related article there as well, where they asked various writers and publishers to recommend a couple of books from that master list that they're particularly looking forward to, I have some thoughts about Curbside there too. Thanks, though, for bringing this to my attention!Tuck wrote: "Tuck wrote: "you all are on this list
http://electricliterature.com/blog/20..."
curbside too"
Hello Jason:) Just wanted to stop by and let you know about my Mirrored Staircase graphic novella Trilogy campaign that I've just launched!Have a wonderful Christmas:)
http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/...
Nice to meet you, Jason:)Feel free to stop by my daily blog here on GR whenever you're in the mood:)
Have a great night!
Frances wrote: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY?"Thank you! 44 today!
I'm so excited about your soon-to-be-funded joint Kickstarter project!! http://kck.st/TaVNH5. Since your books are not named individually in the pitch, I wanted to plug those offered under certain "backer" awards. CCLaP books: Repetition Patterns, Too Young to Fall Asleep, 99 Problems, Life After Sleep, Salt Creek Anthology, Amsterdamned if You Do, American Wasteland, Have You Seen Me, Get Up Tim, solo/down, Famous Drownings in Literary History, and Jugs & Capes. http://www.cclapcenter.com/hypermodern/
I wanted also to remind peeps to back the project! Always looking forward! Cheers!
Am really enjoying your book. Good style. And great collection. Thanks for adding!
Great job on the CCLaP 100 reviews, I hope you're still going strong!
Wonderful! I look forward to reading the review.
mp wrote: "Are you about to write a review for Midnight's Children? I hope it will be super-positive one. It is one of my favorites."Yes I am! And yes it is!
Are you about to write a review for Midnight's Children? I hope it will be super-positive one. It is one of my favorites.
Jacobmartin wrote: "Thanks for the Like Jason, I have been reading your reviews continuously for a while now.I've also been trying to watch movies you recommend as well as books, I could recommend you some like Trai..."
This is great, Jacob. I'll definitely be adding these films to my Netflix queue.
Thanks for the Like Jason, I have been reading your reviews continuously for a while now.I've also been trying to watch movies you recommend as well as books, I could recommend you some like Train Man by Hitori Nakano and, if you're brave enough, the movie version of Ryu Murakami's Audition directed by Takashi Miike. Egads, I've been unsettled for days by that big damn movie.
Have you seen the movie, UP IN THE AIR, yet? with george clooney?? You'll see lots of scenes from St. Louis because it was filmed there,and I really liked it.
Thanks for the add. I love your site CCLaP. :-)
Nick wrote: "Jason,I love your comments and what you're doing with CCLaP. I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy your BookSwim membership (and please be honest with your thoughts)
Nick Ruffilo
BookSwim.com"
Thanks, Nick! For those who don't know what he's talking about, I recently received a free two-month trial membership to Nick's company, in return for writing about my experience afterwards both here and at the CCLaP website. For those who don't know, BookSwim is essentially "Netflix for books" -- for a monthly fee they will mail X amount of titles to you, which you can then keep for as long as you want, getting new titles sent each time you mail the old ones back. I'll be posting my review of my own experience there at the beginning of December.
Jason,I love your comments and what you're doing with CCLaP. I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy your BookSwim membership (and please be honest with your thoughts)
Nick Ruffilo
BookSwim.com
Karin wrote: "Where can I find your books about your travel in Germany? Anywhere where I can get them as ebooks? I've been wanting to read them but can't seem to find them."Ah, Karin, good to hear from you! Well, the online headquarters are still up, at http://www.jasonpettus.com/kool/ and http://www.jasonpettus.com/scheisse/ , where text and photos of each trip can be found. I still haven't put out standalone electronic copies for the public yet, since that was one of the benefits of the people who paid money in advance; although after I -finally- get out the paper copy they're all owed as well, then I will finally release the PDFs for free download online.
Why, I am so pleased that you are of the same opinion of Burroughs, as me. I have read all of Burroughs work and ashamedly, I actually think I liked the others at the time that I read them (my brain must have been on vacation).On one hand, I want to re-read them and reevaluate, as I'm certain that I must have been delusional the first time around; but I also really don't want to waste my time. Why re-read Burroughs, when I can read something good instead?
It's a dilemma.
Jason PettusYou were the last person I expected to run across reading the same books as me, and having Goodreads randomly link me to your review of ... whatever it was - was really startling.
Hope life is treating you kind!
Amy Kennebec
Thanks for sharing " The name Of the Rose". I will have to add it to my collection. Have a good one
I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.Argh...this is terrible...
Again, I'm very sorry.
-Jeremy