Brandon Jimison's Blog

I have been toying with the idea of publishing my novels in a different format. Currently, I’m using a smaller but still standard paperback size for my two novels Shoot the Devil and Monsterly (a novella). It may be a surprise to some, but I’m not selling many copies of either book. To mix things up and maybe spur some traffic, I may republish them in a mass market paperback size, with new covers that more resemble those of the classic pulps era. I figure I can brand myself this way, as I am a f...

Another Kairo short story, River of the Blue Carmina, has been published in the latest Weirdbook Magazine #49. Purchase your copy now to read the story.

It’s that time of year once again, the most wonderful time of the year. The October waltz, the spooky season is in full swing, the vampires sharpening their fangs, the witches brooms lift that much more higher, and the skeletons buff and polish their bones. I started playing my Halloween playlist weeks ago, cramming more horror movie viewing parties in before the waltz fades out.

I’ve been keeping to the grindstone, writing my novel and failing to post regularly on my new Instagram account. ...

Time seems to have flown by on black wings since my last post. Unfortunately, there is not much to report. I am still typing away on my new dark fantasy novel, title yet to be revealed. The middle act is coming together as I wrestle with pace and character development. It has a relatively small cast, but none of them will remain unscathed by the end of the book. I’m having a grand time forming the world of Larkwynn page by page, gothic, often dangerous, and fantastical, with shrouded mysteries y...

The start of another quarter crept up behind me with the point of a blade to my throat, telling me to complete what I have begun. I do my best to comply. I have reached close to the middle point of the dark fantasy novel I am writing.

I don’t like to talk about what I’m writing during the process, but I will divulge a bit. When I created the world for my story, I came up with the name Atios for it. However, by the time I had reached around the fourth chapter, I found that name had been used ...

So, it has been a long time, I acknowledge that. Some things have changed and some remain the same.

I am still hard at work writing a dark fantasy novel set in a world of my own making. A world overtaken by a magical darkness, where a new spark of light, unwilling and corrupted though he may be, is the only hope in stopping an unchained evil, and possibly resurrecting a sacred order of good. My plan is to finally finish it by the end of 2025. I may shop it around to publishers before self-pu...

Another Kairo story has been printed in the new Anthology, A Fistful of Demons. Available now on Amazon Kindle and soon Paperback. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B7ZK434X/ref=x_gr_bb_kindle?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_kindle-20

As the new year has begun, so too has a new novel. I say novel and not novella, as I am pretty confident this next book will be long enough to be considered a true novel. You see, my next novel is a high fantasy novel and the world building has already begun. This will not be epic fantasy, but fantasy nonetheless…and dark. Think Universal Monsters meets Lord of the Rings. Hoping this will be a series as well.

I have a couple of short stories making the rounds; a Frankenstein monster in WW2 st...

My new novella has arrived just in time for Halloween. A creature feature set in 1980s during the Halloween season. You can purchase the eBook or Paperback here.

So…it is pretty obvious by now that I have no intentions of completing the Monster 50 in the amount of detail that I originally set out with. This is unfortunate but most likely inevitable, when looking at my sketchy history of blogging. However, I do not want to leave my audience in perpetual suspense regarding who, or what, the remaining monsters were.

Therefore, I present a list of the remaining monsters in all their unadorned glory.

Krang, the pink jelly-like alien from the Teenage Mut...