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Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
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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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CCLaP's The Year In Books 2015
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Dreaming of Laura Ingalls
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Year of Peace: A Daily Devotional
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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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| 2026 reads, #14. DID NOT FINISH. I’m once again on a middle-aged wellness kick these days, and have recently picked up a slew of new books on the subject. I was initially really into today’s, Jonathan Rauch’s The Happiness Curve, because it posits so ...more | |
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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life:
"Ugh. You've heard of the meeting that could have been an email. This is the full length book that could have been an article.
A lot of friends love this book but it reminded me of getting stuck next to a guy at dinner who couldn't stop talking about h" Read more of this review » |
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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life:
"Me while reading the first half of this book: All my middle-aged friends need to read this book.
Me when I got to the Catholic-heavy chapter on religion: Ugh. Well, at least it's just one chapter, I guess. The start of the next chapter: Saint Paul was" Read more of this review » |
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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life:
"I was drawn to this book by a profile of the author and his philosophy in the Sunday Times and when I basically read it was a book aimed at successful and currently career-focused “strivers” (his term) who are entering the second half of life (the ar"
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| 2026 reads, #13. I’m once again on a middle-aged wellness kick these days, and have recently picked up a slew of new books on the subject. Today’s, Arthur C. Brooks’ From Strength to Strength, is a bit odd, because ultimately all it’s doing is repeat ...more | |
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| 2026 reads, #12. DID NOT FINISH. I’ve been wanting to read this 1893 novel ever since learning about its existence over a decade ago; although I don’t know how true this is, it’s widely considered the very first Realist story ever set in Chicago, and ...more | |
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| 2026 reads, #11. I’ve struggled my entire life with trying to explain my priorities and interests to other people -- how what I love more than anything else is learning something new; how I have very little interest in the domestic details that make ...more | |
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| 2026 reads, #10. As of the writing of this review, we’re currently going through a period of AI history where the world’s seven biggest tech corporations are starting to give up on their plans to each individually come up with the world’s greatest AI ...more | |
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| 2026 reads, #2. One of my freelance author clients is a big fan of SA Cosby, because both of them are physically large black men from the Deep South who write contemporary crime novels informed by and that comment on race; so in my always ongoing att ...more | |
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| [One of my long-term reading projects is the 134 titles in Simon & Schuster’s “Star Trek Relaunch” series that ran from 2001 to 2021, in which the publishing company was given permission from Paramount to create a persistent “canon” universe for the ...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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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
