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JD Jordan lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, Ellie, and a whole bunch of kids. He’s a huge scifi nerd but, despite the contents of this novel, never purposefully sat down to watch or read a Western until the Green Man rode into his imagination. Now he can’t get enough of them.

Calamity is his first novel.

You can find sample chapters, a companion story, a guide to Jane's calamitous saddle slang, and more at o-jd.com. ...more

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

J.D. Jordan May fav fictional couple? My wife and I trade "I love you / I know" all the time, which suggests Leia-Han should be the answer. We even coded "I love …moreMay fav fictional couple? My wife and I trade "I love you / I know" all the time, which suggests Leia-Han should be the answer. We even coded "I love you" for a long time by saying to each other, "you know what?" and responding, "Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie ever." But I'm not sure (and not just because Abrams showed how tragic their relationship turned out).

When I think of my favorite fiction, I'm shocked to realize that overt romance plays a very small part in most of them (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Dune, Harry Potter, etc). And then I remember Ross and Rachel and how every one in my dorm burst into cheers when they got together and how I still think of them every time I hear "Wicked Game" and I kick myself for forgetting, even for a moment. More than Wesley and Buttercup, Ross and Rachel fought for it. And she even went all Return of the Jedi for him, bringing it back around to Leia-Han.

If we're including bromances, then the Sherlock-Watson coupling has run true in so many incarnations with the current Cumberbatch-Freeman version dominating. And Kirk-Spock, of course. I'm also partial to the JD-Turk bromance in Scrubs. Because, of course I am.(less)

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Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man

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“what I like and what I need’s two different things.”
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“wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.”
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“That got me to laughing too. His laughter, like his yelling, got into you until you was right soaked with it. So you couldn’t help yourself. But it felt good. Light. I tell you, I hadn’t felt like that in a long while.”
― J.D. Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man

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“Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.”
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“Jeb didn’t say nothing. Didn’t smile none, neither. Didn’t even move except for the color running right out of him.”
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“Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.”
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“No. Some you put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Reckon we’ll have to see, yet, which way this is going to turn.”
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