by JDAstra | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodnight! It’s been a blast doing this blog takeover! The Coffee Time Romance mods have been so great and gracious. I just wanted to thank them so much for this opportunity to share myself and my works with all of you (and them!). It’s a...
by JDAstra | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
Like waking up to the best job ever, every day This book series is so near and dear to me for fulfilling a desire I’ve always had. I’ve wanted to connect to Korean culture specifically for a long time, but never devoted a lot of time to it on my own. When the idea for...
by JDAstra | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
There’s so many classics that would clutter up the page if I listed them all, but just in brevity, my top three favorites: The Time Machine (duh) by H.G. Wells Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson In more...
by JDAstra | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
I’ve mentioned Zero.Hero a few times and flashed a couple of covers, but I wanted to give it a little spotlight because it’s so much more than stat screens and DnD character transformations. This book has a rich, established world that developed just like Earth, then...
by JDAstra | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
Dat Aesthetic–Part 2 I’m a sucker for the aesthetic—especially when western elements are added. I know, I’m a heathen… The “Wild West” was just another layer of uncharted territory, the new and undiscovered aside from the fact that the west was… already settled…...
by JDAstra | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
What do I write? Let me show you! Since joining up with Shadow Alley Press I’ve been much more prolific than I’d been in the previous years of publishing. The first series launched with them was the Viridian Gate Online Extended Universe, Firebrand series. This was a...
by JDAstra | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
Books beyond me… My first encounter with Steampunk was H.G. Wells The Time Machine. What an odd book to be reading at eight years old. It was loaded with terrifying social degradation implications, carefully masked political dissonance, mentions of sex acts...
by JDAstra | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
Preface… I know a lot of authors introduce themselves in third person to be “presentable” and “professional” but I prefer “approachable” and “real” <3 Expect all my posts to be in this casual friendly manner....
