John A. McColley

@jamccolley.substack.com

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Writer(SFWA, Down The Drain, Ascendent Publishing, Feb 2025), Artist, Dad, DM, not-quite-musician and video maker. (He/They) https://linktr.ee/jamccolley

A picture of where the sand meets a field of beach grass, then gives way to a cloud-filled sky. The gras describes a general wedge shape that is wide on the left and narrows to a point at the middle of the right side of the picture.
Time again for my yearly plug of my Patreon (link in the comments) and formally published books. First, the book that started my Patreon, "Breaking The Word," is finally reaching its moment of release. It's currently with a line editor, and needs a cover, but other than that, we're good to publish in August in time for my in-person event in support of the Oscar Foss Memorial Library in Barnstead, NH. This is the first in a series of five, with four books being drafted on Patreon in case you read it and just can't wait for the polishing of later books. I'll also be serializing book five as sook as "My Starter Object is a Snowball" wraps up (chapter 23 just went live this morning, so it's about halfway through, I expect.) I am ALSO collecting fantasy stories, some published, some new, for a book I'll ALSO be releasing at the above mentioned event on Aug 15. I'll try to get eBooks available about the same time. We'll see. Formatting and be... fun... Anyway, again, thank you to all who support me on this journey, whether on Patreon or by buying my books when they come out, or just sharing these posts. I don't even know who I would be if I wasn't writing, but I know I would be even more boring... lol.
A tiny figurine of a flaming dumpster. It seems happy to see you.
The cover for "GEODE," showing at the top, white stars twinkling in black space. Just below this, there's a gray outer shell and yellow and purple inner shell with jagged, crystalline spars (where the people live). Within that, there's a blue sky and white clouds and at the bottom, the sun. Between these elements are a whale and three dolphins flying through said sky.
A book cover for "GEODE" depicting the massive crystals on the inside of a Dyson sphere, with a sun below and a whale and dolphins soaring through the sky.
A screenshot of a list of outlets from which you can now buy my latest book, "Down the Drain."
A wood rack with dozens of tapes from bands such as Roxette, Def Leppard, Mr. Big, PM Dawn, The Cranberries, and the inimitable "Weird" Al Yankovic.
A Victorian man with buckled boots, a long coat flapping in the wind, an aviator's helmet and goggles pushed up and a vest with a stylized capital A.
a screenshot of part of the original message which said "but alas, I am left with a miss." with part of the text crossed out so it now reads "but alas, I am a miss."
A biblically accurate angel which is basically a mass of eyes and feathered wings.
A massive beetle clinging to a woman's back.
A word quiz poses the question "Which sentence uses 'reverie' correctly?" The four choices, given in boxes stacked in a column, are: "Lost in reverie, she didn't hear the doorbell ring." "The reverie soup was a family recipe." "He performed a reverie on the guitar." and "They admired the reverie structure of the building."
A full-wrap book cover showing a darkened landscape in the background, a blurb for said book and an author photo on the back, and the title, "The Weight of Darkness" and author name, "John A. McColley" on the front.
A black and white photo of a man and woman dressed up in their Sunday best to go tot he World's Fair in 1933. The border of the photo reads, "1833 A Century of Progress 1933."
A cat disco ball presiding over a cat party with rocking music, dancing cats, giant speakers, and colored lights playing over everything.
A black acorn resting on some green moss.
Two men sit behind a table stacked with books, a candelabra, and a bowl of candy.
A foggy New England autumn morning with trees wreathed in mist, some clinging to their emerald raiments, while others don seasonal yellows, reds, and oranges.
Edna Mode, a small, dark-haired woman making a dramatic face while waving a dismissive hand.
A man using a large pumpkin as a boat. He's got a double-ended paddle and is floating merrily along.
Three giant cartoon women in primitive animal hide and bone bikinis with the words "Death by snu snu" in large text.
A book cover showing a number of twisted humanoid forms in black and white, the title reading, "HR Giger AF" due to a sticker blocking the rest of the title.
A YouTube channel thumbnail with the words "Idiophonic Meditations" in white letters and featuring blue sky, white clouds, some pine trees in the corner and bright green border.
A gray tree frog chilling on the porch railing.
A yellow, orange, and red flower.
A cream colored fungus amid brown leaf litter. The fungus is many narrow vertical branches like a coral.
An impressionist painting of the moon casting light on a pine forest.
Pointy-petaled white flower of a lemon tree.
A small potted lemon tree with severe slug damage to the leaves, and one, lone, white, flower.
A hanging white flower on a small, green, lemon tree in a large black pot.
A monstrous eye in shades of green and yellow with a vertical pupil facing to the left while stringy strands of hair like material waft to the right in the wind from eyelid and back of the eye-shield.
A linocut print of a merlion, a mythical beast like a mermaid, but part lion instead of part human.
An abstract painting of all curves and circles in many bright colors, here depicting either a conjunction of planets or a rocket.
Judy Hopps, a bunny meter maid, says, "I mean, I am just a dumb bunny, but we are good a multiplying."
A stick of Old Spice Krakengard deodorant.
A cartoon character stares, eyes red and bulging, mouth downturned, showing concern and fear.
A black cat lounges on a plaid couch.
A serpentine sculpture made of wicker hung between two trees. Here, it is given a round border in keeping with Dungeons and Dragons map tokens.
Cat in a shoebox, looking out a window.
A bird in a hand.
Pink blobby Pokemon called "Ditto."
A painting-in-progress laid out in nine smaller canvases each depicting a different view of a sun. Some include other features such as clouds, birds, mountains, trees, a city and a seaside cliff. The larger matrix canvas they all sit on is still blank, and landscape oriented in this display
The cover of Crossed Genres Magazine 2.0, Book Three, the collected issues from 2014. Featured are a girl with green hair smiling at an alligator at a bus stop.
Cartoon rock band member with the caption "brutal."