Mike Jasper

@michaeljasper.bsky.social

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Fiction and technical writer, amateur farmer, avid reader, dad of two, chicken wrangler, indie publisher. He/him. Always working on 5 things at once. New novel THE FINDER coming Sept. '26! https://www.patreon.com/MichaelJasper | https://michaeljasper.net

Sunset at our farm, looking west at the town of Boone, NC.
The guts of our riding lawn mower—battery removed, tools everywhere….
A mama hen and her baby chicks, grabbing some food and water in their coop.
The cover to "'Sang and Bones", a Finder Team prequel story by Michael Jasper, with the grassy peak of Grandfather mountain at the top, and a close-up of a ginseng plant with big old red berries.
Cover image for "Always Find Her", feature a tumble of rocks at the top and a close-up of a charm bracelet with a heart and a lock at the bottom. Author is Michael Jasper, and the text at the top says "She was taken, and only Bim and Hank can find her." In the middle, a text box states that this is a Finder Team Story.
A bowl of sourdough on my counter…
Cover to the short story "Ozzy' Gonna Find You a Diamond Ring" -- a Finder Team Prequel Story by Michael Jaser. Features a huge chestnut tree, from the perspective of a small person looking up at it.
A rainbow stretches across the sky, too wide to fit into my phone's camera, just off my side deck and above our driveway. A second rainbow is trying to take shape above it, just because it can.
A short video of the wind blowing snow across our yard and in front of our horse barn. It's kind of a whiteout out there...
Chapbook of The Real Satyrs of Mt Airy by Steph Rantz. The book is about as big as an index card… remember those?
A video of our frozen and snowy yard, with our three horses blanketed in the barn. The wind is just whipping.
Two cats one critter.
A sign next to a restroom at a local bar in Boone, NC, with a mermaid on one side and a centaur on the other, with the word “Whatever” and “Just wash your hands” under it.
My trusty word-o-meter, showing just 7300 words so far, out of a goal of 180000 for the year. 4% there!
A snowy field with a horse off to the side in a winter jacket.
Cover art for the short story by Michael Jasper entitled "Two Favors for the Man", a Finder Team prequel story. A foggy image of the metal Mile High Bridge at Grandfather Mountain is at the top, with an image of a black guitar at the bottom. Text at the top states: "Music on the mountain might never be the same..."
Cover art for the 1994 mini-series THE STAND, featuring a big image of Gary Sinise as Stu and Molly Ringwald as Franny, with smaller images of some of the other cast, on top of an image of a desert and mountains. It's still pretty awesome!
Six covers from the home page of Michael Jasper's website for two of his novel series, the Finder Team and the Family Pack series. The last two covers create a full moon when they're next to each other. Because why not?
A handful of chicken eggs of all sizes, broken, green, and blue. Plus a little black barn cat in the background.
Half of dozen chickens roost on a wheelbarrow in a snowy barn, safe from the wind.
An amateur photo taken from the passenger seat of a car of Grandfather Mountain covered in clouds, with a dusting of early winter snow. A sign for a "Gold and Ladieswear" store on the sire of the road reads "We're Open! You Don't Know What We Got Unless You Come In." True.
A gray cats peeks his head through a taped-open cat door while a black cat rests in her cat crate. Both wait for more food. Photo by Philip Holman.
Book cover for A STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS by Chuck Wendig. In a sickly yellow forest, a spiral staircase stands alone, leading up into nowhere.
A teenager with earbuds and a squeezable pint-size dinosaur sits at a table in the Barnes & Noble cafe and devours The Stand by Stephen King.
Our stone fireplace with an orange fire just getting started inside.
Clifford the dog gets nose to nose with little Willow the cat. The cat is not afraid.
Lynette in a bear costume holding a No Kings sign, and me in my yellow shirt, just glad to be ther.
A sign from today's No King protest in Boone, NC, that states: "America: Rejecting Kings Since 1776". Nice handwriting, me!
Impressionistic painting of a Friesian in front of a colorful background.
The boxes for Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business by Dan Goldman.
Half a dozen day-old baby chicks in our coop outside.
Screenshot of the last few songs in my Apple Music playlist of my favorite songs of all freaking time. Currently at 93 songs, 6 hours, 53 minutes.
Screenshot of a classic text game with the key text being: West of House You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. >_
A grill with various types of meet getting cooked, plus all the stuff next to it to make it all taste good. Including a glass of whiskey.
Two horses in their winter coats stand next to each other in a shadowy field of yellow grass.
Dozens of icicles on a wooden structure, with a foggy background.
Nine eggs of varying color on a bale of hay in our horse barn. It’s just the beginning.
A house lit up at night, with 4-5 tall trees on either side, just after sunset. The sky is purple at the top and orange at the very bottom. A star or two has popped out about the house. Photo by Philip Holman.
A shot from the top of our hill, looking down at the farm, by Philip Holman. Two women chat, while a dog tries to get the attention of a man next to them. A mountain range and blue skies with some clouds form the background.
A black and white photo by Hugh Morton of Johnny Cash feeding the bears at Grandfather Mountain in 1974.
Sunrise on a snowy field, with our shade structure to the right.
About 15 chickens gathered around a bale of hay, most of them looking right at the camera…
Book cover for Family, Pack by Michael Jasper, a "rural fantasy" werewolf novel set in the midwest, featuring a full moon and an angry-looking wolf out in the woods.
Dwight, a paint horse with a white face and brown colorings, stands in the snow at our farm. He’s wearing a stylish horse jacket.
My wife in all her winter gear, making a snow angel with our dog Clifford next to her in the snow.
Clifford the dog, covered in snow, waiting patently to be let off leash.
A bottle of Ritual, a gin alternative, on my windowsill overlooking a snowy field and barn.
A 2025 Word Count meter from my website, with only 1000 words so far for the year out of a planned 140,000! 1 per cent done!
Two horse watering troughs with heaters, in the snow.
A paint horse named Dwight, wearing his winter coat, munches hay on a snowy hill in our big field as the sun rises.
A full rainbow on a foggy morning above our horse barn, with two blanketed horses outside the barn.
A Friesian horse in his winter coat, looking less than pleased at the snow all around him.
Horse barn in the snow, with horses in their winter blankets.
Cover of the novel Country Dark by Chris Offutt.
Our late dog Aspen guarding the front porch at our old house, 2016
Image of the word count widget at my website, showing 39,800 words written for my 60,000-word goal for 2024!
Clifford the dog enjoys a mountain sunset with clouds overlooking Boone, NC.