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I'm an Afghan and Iraq vet and Dragon-Award Nominated author who enjoys movies, TTRPGs, old comics, and reading and writing sci-fi & fantasy.

Joined March 2019
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So I went and did a thing. I have started a Patreon. If you enjoyed my alt Indochina War stories in the Phases of Mars anthos out from @CKPBooks , in Hooves Tracks and Sabers from @raconteur_press , or in @Youngblai James L. Young's Arc of Ares Anthos--I will be releasing new editions of those stories, each with a new B&W cover art piece. I'm going to release one short story a quarter until the entire American-Indochina War story is concluded before moving onto another serialized fiction story. I will also be posting weekly progress reports on my current novel, right now that happens to be Romanov III. If you'd like in: patreon.com/JustinWatson_Boo…
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In case you missed this yesterday -- Christopher Paolini invites you to check out the Witchy War Kickstarter campaign. kickstarter.com/projects/hap…
I've known @DavidJohnButler for years. (Interviewed him way back when his first middle-grade book was coming out with Knopf.) He's kickstarting a beautiful new set of hardbacks for the complete series of "Witchy War." Written as an alternate-history fantasy with real depth, it's worth checking out! 🧙‍♀️🪄 kickstarter.com/projects/hap…
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Congratulations to Dave for funding in an hour... But, check out the campaign and go buy yourself some Witchy War books. I say this because I want to motivate Dave to write MORE Witchy War books.
Thanks to everyone who joined the launch livestream this morning. We funded at the one hour mark. I feel a great harmony in the Force.
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Last few hours!
Final 48 hours on the Kickstarter for the graphic novel adaptation of Gun Runner - kickstarter.com/projects/hdm…
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I've been a website pilgrim. I was on blogger-dot-com for the first year or so. Then moved it all to wordpress site with a flexible but kind of homely template, hosted by hostgator. I wanted a website that did lots of things, like list my convention schedule, and my awards, and have a blog, and a bunch of links. It did all the things. And it was kind of homely. Then I did some work with a company that said, "Hey, as part of your compensation, we'll build you a cool new website!" They built the cool new website. Or rather, their devs in southeast Asia did. And those same devs larded the site up with malware. So I shut my website down, oh, about a year ago. A friend did me a favor and basically set up a new site for me this weekend. It's simple: I don't want a blog or a widget showing my most recent X post or anything else complicated. But I like it. Here it is: davidjohnbutler.com/
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There are many sad things in life, but one particularly sad thing that has come to my attention (thanks, @AngryCops @UnsubscribeCast ) is that some folks are willing to pay five figures or more for faux-basic training rather than bite the bullet and serve their country. Just...don't. It's not the same, even if it's legitimately physically harder than Benning or Pendelton, it's not the same thing, you're not a part of a special elite club, you just lost a ton of money to get yelled at by a scam artist.
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Had a great chat with many friends about Hapax Press. We recorded it for you! teapaw.org/i/spaces/1qKVmyrpnmWxB

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The Saga of Seven Suns is a terrific space opera. Of Kevin's many books, these are my favorite. I have the original seven, and I'm looking forward to getting the rest when he makes them available in October.
A new unboxing video of the entire deluxe-edition set of The Complete Saga of Seven Suns. They turned out *spectacular*. Limited to 150 signed and hand-numbered sets. Follow our prelaunch page and reserve a spot in the VIP line (and get a free ebook). backerkit.com/c/projects/wor…
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We continue to plug ahead with marketing the Witchy War kickstarter project. We're about halfway through the pre-launch period. If you like alternate history, or epic fantasy, or Americana, or playful, culturally literate narratives, or Bible-influenced fiction, I invite you to check out the project page at the link below, and please hit "Notify me on launch." That will mean you get an email the minute I hit the big green button and we go live. The great thing about that is it lets us coordinate and make a big initial splash, getting a bunch of backers all at once. This will let us get attention, on kickstarter, across social media, and even in the world of publishing. Thank you. kickstarter.com/projects/hap…
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This episode was brought to you by the letter, "T" for Takhisis, and by generous contributions from the Orders of High Sorcery, the Mt. Nevermind Tinkerer's guild and readers like you!
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Writer and booktuber Brian Durfee reviews Witchy Eye. youtube.com/watch?v=WBeNBZco… We at Hapax Press are kickstarting Witchy Eye and its two sequels, Witchy Winter and Witchy Kingdom. We're putting them back into print in cool new hardback editions. You can read about the coming kickstarter here. kickstarter.com/projects/hap… Hit "Notify me on launch" to get an automatic email notification when we go live on October 1, and join us in making a big splash.
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Metallic clatter filled his ears, the sky before him burned with muzzle flashes and the cockpit rocked with the recoil of six .50 caliber machine guns, each firing twenty rounds per second. Red tracers lanced through the sky and tore into the first French jet’s fuselage. Benny was rewarded with an orange and black explosion followed by the sight of the 262’s left wing falling away and the remainder of the jet spinning off toward the distant ground. - "Red Tailed Tigers."
🤖 Made with AI
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In which I read an extended scene from Witchy Eye: Bad Bill fights a duel on Smuggler's Shelf, and loses by winning. youtube.com/watch?v=ugZEihny… Witchy Eye is book one of the Witchy War. I'm kickstarting the trilogy back into print with great new covers and other features. Please check us out at this link, and hit "Notify me on launch." kickstarter.com/projects/hap…
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To the attention of the entire, "you sound mad/why do you care so much?" crowd.
"So childish of you to care whether this made-up story is faithfully told...there never was a Lion after all...(Thrum, thrum, thrum)..."
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In which Liam of the Lyceum talks about Witchy Eye. youtube.com/watch?v=FSy_K9gy… Hey, we're kickstarting Witchy Eye and its two sequels in exciting new hardback editions. You can sign up to be notified when it goes live here: kickstarter.com/projects/hap…
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USSR: -Starts WW2 by invading Poland WITH the nazis. avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_cen… -Gets blindsided by obvious nazi betrayal. -Forces young men into combat with no weapons, they die by the millions because communism incapable of mass production, and devalues human life. -American steps in with lend lease providing: $11.3 Billion ($200 Billion Today) Assets ~400,000 jeeps & trucks ~14,000 airplanes ~8,000 tractors ~13,000 tanks ~350 Locomotives ~1,640 Train Cars ~500,000 tons rails ~1.5 million blankets ~15 million pairs of army boots ~107,000 tons of cotton ~2.7 million tons of petrol products (5.9 Billion Pounds) ~4.5 million tons of food (9.9 Billion Pounds) ~guns ~ammunition ~explosives ~copper ~steel ~aluminum ~medicine ~field radios ~radar tools ~and other items "The most important things in this war are machines. The United States ... is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines, through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war." - Stalin -Survives WW2 -Eventually collapses under the cultural weight of blue jeans and Metallica. Fast forward 80 years: “Omg communism is the best look. They killed the most nazi” - some “communist” living in America tweeting from a fucking iPhone
80% of the Nazi death toll in this picture was thanks to the Red Army. But the movies sure do love to portray the Americans who joined the war late as the saviors lmao.
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The Witchy War series blends epic flintlock fantasy and alt history in really unique and entertaining ways.
Aiming to launch the kickstarter at the first of October. Sign up here to be notified when we go live. kickstarter.com/projects/hap…
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Listening to @JackCarrUSA’s Vietnam thriller, Cry Havoc, and his hero says, “we’re Navy SEALs, no one writes books about us.” Which was pretty much true in 1968, and a hilarious little meta commentary on the modern JSOC Media/Entertainment Complex. Great thriller so far, too. We should never forget Vietnam. So much of who we are is bound up in it.
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August Newsletter is out to subscribers and up as a post on justinwatsonbooks. In addition to my own writing update, I talk about my increasing weebhood with Apothecary Diaries, get really excited about Tim Powers' The Mills of the Gods out from @BaenBooks.
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