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J.R. Kendiro

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https://kendiro.com/

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller

Influences

Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, David Gemmell, Brandon Sanderson

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November 2025

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For ARC Readers: my novella Ravenous Mother - A Healer is available for free right now: here

I've done a lot of things in my life. Some I'm proud of, some I'm not. But they all taught me the same thing: wasting time is a mortal sin.

That’s why I try to write honest, well-crafted books — so I don’t waste my own time writing nonsense, and I don’t waste yours by making you read it.

Ravenous Mother is my first saga. It’s set inside a massive biological organism where humanity survives in a rigid caste system — and reaching forty means you feed the Mother.

It’s about people trapped in impossible systems, without hope, yet who never give up. Exactly like real humanity.

The Mother feeds the readers,

The readers feed the Mother.

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Two Gatherers free on Amazon today only

Hello, antibody enemies!

Two Gatherers is free on Amazon for the next 24 hours — May 11 only (Pacific Time).

If the price hasn’t dropped to free yet on your Amazon store, don’t panic: the promotion follows Pacific Time, so it may appear a little later depending on your region.

It's the prequel novella to the Motherverse, a grimdark biopunk world where humanity lives inside a colossal living organism.

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