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Joel Jenkins

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Former ghost impersonator, rock vocalist, and now novelist living in the rain-soaked shadows of the Great Northwest.

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Writing a Biography

Here's a review of my novel One Foot in My Grave which is appended with an interview which examines the idea of approaching a biography from a first-person view point. Read more of this blog post »

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	Dire Planet (Dire Planet Series #1) by Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author), Mats Minnhagen (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nuclear Suitcase (The Gantlet Brothers Book 1) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Coming of Crow (The Weird Adventures of Lone Crow #1) 4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exiles of the Dire Planet 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	OCCULT Detectives Volume 1 by Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author), Jim Beard (Goodreads Author), Ron Fortier 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Dire Planet by Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author), Noel Tuazon (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PulpWork Halloween Special 2016 by Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author), Tom Deja, Robert Mancebo 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Condemnation of Crow (The Weird Adventures of Lone Crow #2) by Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author), Joshua Reynolds (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devil Take the Hindmost (Denbrook Supernatural Book 1) 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Tribes of the Dire Planet (Dire Planet #5) by Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author), M D Jackson (Illustrator), Damon Orrell (Illustrator) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dire Planet (9 books)
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Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author)

4.10 avg rating — 102 ratings

The Weird Adventures of Lone Crow (2 books)
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Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author),

Joshua Reynolds (Goodreads Author) (Contributor)

4.56 avg rating — 32 ratings

Tales from the City of Bathos (3 books)
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Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author)

4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings

The Gantlet Brothers (4 books)
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Joel Jenkins (Goodreads Author),

M Jackson (Illustrator)

4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings

Barclay Salvage (2 books)
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Joel Jenkins rated a book really liked it Moon Knight, Vol. 2: Too Tough to Die by Jed MacKay	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
There's some interesting stuff going on here, like the return of Zodiac whom I recall tangling with the Defenders many decades ago. This version is somewhat different, however. I particularly like the inclusion of Tigra here and enjoy the developing ...more
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Say what you will about Jonathan Hickman, but he always swings for the fences. Sometimes, it's a grand slam; other times, well... This may not be quite a grand slam, but it's certainly interesting reading. It features a Doctor Strange variant named Wy ...more
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Joel Jenkins rated a book it was amazing Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (Tarzan, #22) by Edgar Rice Burroughs	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
One of my favorite Tarzan novels. Here, Tarzan clearly takes a liking to his American and Dutch companions and, rather than remain his usual enigmatic and laconic self, he treats them like friends and engages them in conversations, which lead to inte ...more
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Joel Jenkins has read Whispers of Ice and Sand: Space Westerns by G. W. Thomas	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
These are a variety of space opera stories featuring five stories taking place on the desert planet Uttukku, which is dotted with much-sought-after Harlequin ruins buried in the sand. The last four stories are about the space captain Sudana. My favori ...more
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This is a curious change from the first book, Blades and Abominations, because we go into a first-person narrative by Poet. Here, either because we have an unreliable narrator, or because Poet has become much more capable with the blade, Sirtago take ...more
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“The drum of hoofbeats rang from the trail winding up the side of Telegraph Hill, and then the sound of footsteps preceding them came to Crow’s ears.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

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“Lone Crow climbed Telegraph Hill, winding his way through clusters of tents and ramshackle wooden shelters of the Chileno encampment that clung to the slopes like barnacles on a ship’s hull.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

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“Still, the badger-warrior’s momentum kept him running forward and Crow feared that upraised sword might be able to cleave either he or Ferguson in twain.”
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