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Jarod’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jarod’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Yep, I wrote Strange Animals.
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Something in the Woods Loves You
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2024
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Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
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2020
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Strange Animals
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2026
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Love Notes From The Hollow Tree
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2022
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Leaf Litter
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2023
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The Haunted Forest Trilogy
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Inklings: 300 Starts, Plots, and Challenges to Inspire your Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Stories
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2013
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Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2017
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100 Prompts for Science Fiction Writers
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Early Praise for Strange Animals
Check out these kind reviews from a few pretty amazing writers.
I can't wait to share my new novel with you!
“I cannot express how much this book scratched an itch I didn’t know I had. The deep wonder and curiosity about nature coupled with the terror of our own insignificance strummed a familiar chord within me, and reading about these singular creatures and Green’s journey confronting them inspir Read more of this blog post »
I can't wait to share my new novel with you!
“I cannot express how much this book scratched an itch I didn’t know I had. The deep wonder and curiosity about nature coupled with the terror of our own insignificance strummed a familiar chord within me, and reading about these singular creatures and Green’s journey confronting them inspir Read more of this blog post »
Jarod’s Recent Updates
"Caveat: I received a very early Advance Reading Copy of this book from the publisher. This review is based on that book.
Something we used to talk about as fantasy readers was A Sense of Wonder. I don't think I've heard the phrase much lately. It's ha" Read more of this review » |
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Seven Recipes for Revolution (What We Eat, #1):
"As is probably obvious from my blurb on the cover, I loved this one. A breath of fresh air for the fantasy genre - I honestly can't think of a comparable work. From the very opening scene in which we are introduced to Paprick working as a slave cutti"
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"Strange Animals is the rare fantasy that hits the reader right in the jealousy center. For all the trauma the main character, Green, experiences, I couldn't help but to wish I could fill his shoes and experience the magical lens of nature he finds hi"
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"This book is exactly what I was looking for. You can almost smell the green of the forest while reading. A little creepy, a little hopeful. I expected a beautiful book from the Cryptonaturalist, and he delivered! "
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Katie wrote: "The author is from my hometown. I've wanted to read this for years."
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| Grendel is a legit monster. He’s an old-school monster, a genuine classic. In John Gardner’s 1971 novel, we revisit the story of Beowulf from Grendel’s lyrical, angsty perspective. In doing so, we contemplate what it means to be a villain to the huma ...more | |
“It’s easy to look at the contours of a forest and feel a bone deep love for nature. It’s less easy to remember that the contours of your own body represent the exact same nature. The pathways of your mind. Your dreams, dark and strange as sprouts curling beneath a flat rock. Your regret, bitter as the citrus rot of old cut grass. It’s the same as the nature you make time to love. That you practice loving. The forest. The meadow. The sweeping arm of a galaxy. You are as natural as any postcard landscape and deserve the same love.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
“There's an endless autumn in me,
scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
“You won't see most of this planet.
Under each rock.
Beneath the water.
Secrets of air and soil.
Can you feel the joy behind this limitation?
That there is always a new thing to discover,
a new way to grow,
is one of the sweetest parts of living,
and it's free and inexhaustable.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
Under each rock.
Beneath the water.
Secrets of air and soil.
Can you feel the joy behind this limitation?
That there is always a new thing to discover,
a new way to grow,
is one of the sweetest parts of living,
and it's free and inexhaustable.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
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“Something had been born, unexpected, the salt of the sea in its lungs. It screamed and screamed and it lived.”
― The Unmothers
― The Unmothers
“The strangest human we know visits a royal pan-dimensional manifestation of collective history-spanning crow-intelligence while battling an incursion from beyond reality... and he asks us for simplicity.”
― Strange Animals
― Strange Animals
“How humbling is nature? How many lives could you spend studying a single tree and still feel yourself a neophyte in the school of its character? What a gift it is to know that the ship of our curiosity will never run aground in the seas of Earth's mysteries.”
― Strange Animals
― Strange Animals
