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J. Nelson Jr.

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Born
in Marietta, GA, The United States
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November 2015


I scrawled my first story when I was eleven: a handful of loose-leaf pages, a boy and his best friend who find treasure in their backyard. There was this evil lightning wizard who fit into the plot somehow, and at one point, our heroes rode awesome hoverbikes with laser cannons.

(I watched a lot of Lucas and Spielberg at a formative age.)

In fact, I consumed tons of fiction growing up, and most of it was the same as what I like to write: explosions, romance, feats of derring-do…

But then, there were the special ones: the SFF that transcended genre, that took all the tropes and pithy lines I loved and infused them with the emotional honesty I thought could only be achieved by names like Shelley and Steinbeck. Those stories stuck. And inevitabl
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First Night's Always Free: ...

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Sometimes you like a character because you relate deeply to their journey. Sometimes it's because you learn something from them, or because they make you laugh.

And sometimes, even if all of that is also true, you just like a character cause she's co
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“Much Madness is divinest Sense -
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