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J.A.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at J.A.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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J.A. Ironside
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in Dorset, The United Kingdom
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January 2013
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Ask Me Anything: Yes, I Really Do Prefer Cheese to Chocolate –And other such weird and wonderful author trivia.
Back in March, I opened up my DMs/ email to my Grimoire subscribers for a round of ‘ask me anything’ and you guys did not disappoint. This post is a lot later than I planned for various reasons, but here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions. Enjoy! When is ‘Crossing Places’ coming… Continue reading Ask Me Anything: Yes, I Really Do Prefer Cheese to Chocolate –And other such weird a
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“You know why I really hated you? With all that you had you were just so oblivious to it all. You didn't use your beauty. You didn't ever try to get what you wanted. You didn't deserve what you had. I did because I would have used it. And you just...loved me. Loved me no matter what I did. You have no idea how I despised you for that. I wanted you gone."
'The Yielding”
― A Chimerical World: Tales of the Unseelie Court
'The Yielding”
― A Chimerical World: Tales of the Unseelie Court
“She was everywhere. She was screaming in her tortured body. She was watching from cameras in every room. She was the false weather system and the storage devices. She was the gate keeper, throwing six shirts over her swan-brothers necks...opening six doors for her brothers to step through as young men, though their bodies were long gone, used up by the organ banks of the upper castes.
A Lamentation of Swans”
― A Seeming Glass: a Collection of Reflected Tales
A Lamentation of Swans”
― A Seeming Glass: a Collection of Reflected Tales
“Every time I had things straight in my head about
him, I saw him smile or crook an eyebrow, and all my sensible reasons on why I couldn’t have feelings for him seemed redundant.”
― I Belong to the Earth
him, I saw him smile or crook an eyebrow, and all my sensible reasons on why I couldn’t have feelings for him seemed redundant.”
― I Belong to the Earth
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“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
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“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
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“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
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“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
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