Jim Genzano's Blog

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In the Bible, it says the people asked God, through the prophet Samuel, for a King over them. Samuel warned them against it, saying (1 Samuel 8:11-18), "he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots... He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants... He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be...

 by Fëanor

I took Twitter off a while ago, now I've also purged Facebook from the blog. The evil must go!



Plenty more evil that still needs getting rid of elsewhere, but that's another story...



Anyway, how have you been? I've been busy with work, and also with the book I've been writing and editing for...a while now. I might be ready to start querying it again. Fingers crossed an agent will decide it's worth championing. It's an adult fantasy novel about witches and magic and religion.

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You might see some weirdness on my blog at the moment. It's encoding-related, but I'm really not sure why it suddenly started happening. I will work on it, and hopefully will have a fix soon. Thanks for your patience!



UPDATE: I *think* I have it fixed. I hope.

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So, turns out I've been using an invalid version of PHP for...a while now. Doh. Anyway, I've updated the site to the newest version, but it will probably take me a while to fix all the compatibility issues this has raised. If you notice anything busted around the site, please let me know and I'll get to it as soon as I can! Thank you.

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Hello, folks! A couple of things. First, Twitter is now X, and X is garbage and run by a garbage human being, so I decided to remove all integrations with Twitter/X from my site. No more Twitter sidebar on the blog, no more links to my Twitter account, no more tweet buttons, etc. If you find a button or link to Twitter/X somewhere on the site, please let me know and I'll get rid of it. Thank you!



Second, my latest book - TOWER AND PIT: A STRANGER WORLD ADVENTURE - is coming out in pap...

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Hey, my new book is out! It's the fifth entry in the Stranger World series and it's called Tower and Pit. The title of this post gives you an idea what to expect from it. It's the creepiest entry in the series yet, and I think a pretty fun read. I hope you'll agree. Currently it's available in hardcover at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. December of this year I'll be putting it out in ebook and paperback. As always, you can find links to every edition of all my books over in the

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Hello folks! Been quite a while since I posted on here about anything other than my books, but I recently finished making my way through the first season of Netflix's horror anthology show, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, and I thought I'd talk about it a bit.



Guillermo del Toro, if you are somehow unaware, is a film director who is known for fantastical movies about monsters. I'm a huge fan. This show is kind of his version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents; he shows up at th...

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I made you another STRANGER WORLD book! This one is called BOOK AND HALL and you can pre-order it now on Barnes & Noble. It will be officially released on June 27, 2022, when it will also be available on Amazon.com.



This is the hardcover edition, by the way. The paperback and eBook editions will follow either late this year or early next year. I'll certainly let you know!



This particular entry in the Stranger World series is a pretty fun one I think. The main setting for the story is...

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Hi, folks! Just popping on to mention that you can now purchase my latest book, RING AND IRON: A STRANGER WORLD ADVENTURE, in paperback format on Amazon!



It wasn't supposed to come out until tomorrow, but Amazon is weird about paperbacks and doesn't let you put them on presale or set exactly when they're going to be published; you just have to push the button a little before they're supposed to be available and hope for the best. So you get it a day early! It'll be officially released...

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I got interviewed! Check it out.

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