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Jason S. Hornsby

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Jason S. Hornsby is the author of DESERT BLEEDS RED, ELEVEN TWENTY-THREE, and EVERY SIGH, THE END, as well as several short stories and articles for time travel and horror anthologies. His work has been highly lauded for its originality, international settings, roots in current events, dark humor, themes of paranoia, and extreme horror.

His latest novel, DESERT BLEEDS RED, has proven a major critical success. New York Times best-selling author Peter Clines described it as "...a masterpiece. It isn't limited by genre or style or any of those other ways people try to contain a book. It's just a masterpiece." Craig DiLouie, author of SUFFER THE CHILDREN and THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK, said that Hornsby's "prose runs deep and his imagination and Jason S. Hornsby is the author of DESERT BLEEDS RED, ELEVEN TWENTY-THREE, and EVERY SIGH, THE END, as well as several short stories and articles for time travel and horror anthologies. His work has been highly lauded for its originality, international settings, roots in current events, dark humor, themes of paranoia, and extreme horror.

His latest novel, DESERT BLEEDS RED, has proven a major critical success. New York Times best-selling author Peter Clines described it as "...a masterpiece. It isn't limited by genre or style or any of those other ways people try to contain a book. It's just a masterpiece." Craig DiLouie, author of SUFFER THE CHILDREN and THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK, said that Hornsby's "prose runs deep and his imagination and sheer talent soar in this very dark and epic fantasy."

Originally from Lakeland, Florida, Hornsby is an honors graduate of University of South Florida, with degrees in Literature and American Studies. His first major release, EVERY SIGH, THE END, was written in his first year following graduation, and is considered by all the cool kids as being one of the best zombie novels ever written. He also has a Master's degree in professional writing from the Southern New Hampshire University.

The author moved from his hometown to Beijing in 2008, where he remained for nearly four years. After the release of ELEVEN TWENTY-THREE in 2010, Hornsby traveled to some of the most remote areas of China as research for the epic DESERT BLEEDS RED. He was present during the 2009 Urumqi riots, as well as political insurrections in Sichuan and Inner Mongolia. Hornsby was witness and even party to stabbings, brawls, and routine sidewalk bloodshed, and spent a month recuperating from back surgery in a Beijing hospital. He is a regular in the expat trouble-making scene, throwing up in the alley behind all the best dive bars and hidden hutong hangouts.

He has traveled and dodged trouble in over fourteen provinces in China thus far, as well as backpacked, hitchhiked, and philandered his way across Southeast Asia.

When not teaching English literature or traversing the globe, he also contributes to several travel and expat lifestyle magazines in Southeast Asia and China. Since summer of 2022, Hornsby and his family have lived in Bangkok. Before that, there were stints in Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Ningbo, and Chengdu.

He has no current plans for a permanent return to America, but is very close to finishing his long-awaited fourth novel, tentatively titled GHOST SICKNESS. ...more

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I just found out that, for the next few days, my third and best novel, DESERT BLEEDS RED, is on sale for only 99 cents. This is a great deal for a book that I am exceptionally proud of. If you want it, here is the link:

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	Every Sigh, the End 3.72 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Eleven Twenty-three 3.38 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Times of Trouble: A Time Travel Anthology by Lane Adamson (Editor), Matthew Baugh, Thom Brannan (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Zombie Writing! by Armand Rosamilia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric S. Brown (Contributor), Joe McKinney (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Desert Bleeds Red 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014 — 6 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
	Ghost Sickness 4.67 avg rating — 6 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
	The Perfect Spiral: A Novel liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001	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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“I’m haunted. We all are, I guess. We’re parentless, friendless, unloved, abandoned. The spirits of our deceased emotional anchors and proofs of existence will follow and demean us until we too roam a quiet lifeless world alongside them — unable to speak — our histories written in beach sand.”
― Jason S. Hornsby, Eleven Twenty-three

tags: 23, depression, forgotten, horror, horror-fiction, survival-story, unloved

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“The only true dead are those who have been forgotten.”
― Jason S. Hornsby, Eleven Twenty-three

tags: 1123, apocalypse, forgotten, survival

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“I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand?”
― Jason S. Hornsby, Every Sigh, the End

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“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

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“Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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“When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

tags: stupidity, war

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“In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell.”
― Michael Crichton

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“Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every fucking day, someone, somewhere makes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life. And why the FUCK are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it. I don't have any bloody use for it.”
― Charlie Kaufman

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message 11: by Natalie

Feb 27, 2010 08:28AM

Tragically broke and still unem-fucking-ployed. David bought the tickets, though they were pretty cheap and didn't have any Ticketbastard fees attached. I'll buy you a shirt. :)

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message 10: by Jason

Feb 27, 2010 03:34AM

Oh, this is bullshit! If I had a top 5 things I miss about America list, the concert thing would definitely be in there. I am going to miss the bad-ass band Murder by Death, and I am also going to miss Local H!? It's the Local H one that really kills me, though. That band is so amazing live. If you don't go, you're either a damn fool or tragically broke due to America's wintry economy.

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message 9: by Natalie

Feb 27, 2010 01:18AM

Who has two thumbs and just got tickets to see Murder By Death at the Orpheum? This girl!

(Local H is playing there next month too. This is why you have to return to America.)

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message 8: by Natalie

Feb 18, 2010 04:52AM

There's an article at the Onion A/V Club (the New Cult Canon) about Synecdoche, New York today.

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message 7: by Natalie

Feb 13, 2010 05:22PM

Remember that book of suicide methods I loaned you when you were in town? Keep it - I found another copy at Haslam's in St. Pete today. Hold onto yours, because it's out of print and an extremely rare find, as well as being a totally absorbing read.

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message 6: by Natalie

Jan 18, 2010 08:01PM

Hey babe, check it out. New review of ESTE.

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message 5: by Natalie

Nov 12, 2009 12:39PM

You've no idea the kicking, screaming, wailing, rending of garments, and cursing of God that occurred when I realized I missed not one, but two calls from you. I'm sure it's no mean feat to call from the future. I'll send you a lengthy email later and fill you in on the non-happenings in my barren Tunguska crater of a life... and let me know a day/Beijing standard time when you're free, and I'll tell you when would be a good time to call me that day. I miss you a hell of a lot.

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message 4: by Natalie

Oct 14, 2009 12:44PM

Look at this.

Remember that story we were both obsessed with last year, about the beautiful successful young couple who developed intense paranoia of Scientology and the government and each killed themselves within a week of each other?

Gus van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are collaborating on a film about them.

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message 3: by Natalie

Sep 01, 2009 06:32AM

If you talk to Kyle, tell him to call me. Scully is limping from getting her ass kicked daily.

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message 2: by Jason

Aug 24, 2009 10:12PM

Brandon wrote: "I just finished ESTE and I wanted to tell you that I loved it. It was one of the better purchases I made in 2007."

Thanks a lot, Brandon. Hopefully, the new novel will not disappoint. If you like zombies, how do you feel about ghosts?

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message 1: by Brandon

Jan 01, 2008 10:58PM

I just finished ESTE and I wanted to tell you that I loved it. It was one of the better purchases I made in 2007.

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