Pemry Janes

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Author of the Living Sword series, an unpaid intern of History, He/Him. www.pemryjanes.com

Smahswords July Summer/Winter Sale Your last chance to get the rest of the Living Sword series at a discount before the prices go up.
Augustus The Strong A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning. The cover is a drawing of a palace, but close up so you only see part of it. Author is making the case that we shouldn't think of August as a monarch, he was a failure at that, but as an artist.
Smashwords July Summer/Winter Sale smashwords.com/sale In the image summer and winter clash, like the two Fae courts in the Dresden Files.
Advert for the Smashwords Summer/Winter sale running throughout July. smashwords.com/sale The image also vividly shows how topsy turvy our climate has gotten as climate change accelerates.
Murgon Bat, found in Queensland and dating from the Eocene 40 million years ago. The drawing shows a snub-nosed bat that's well fed. Probably looking for it's next meal. It's a testimony to just how well bats can adapt that they can even survive in Australia. The only continent with venomous mammals. Image by Dr. Anne Musser.
N-8 knelt and sketched a map out in the dirt. “Tomorrow, when we reach half a pyramid, the Veldt will be on our left. It looks like the easy path. Flat, open, safe.” They crossed it all out. “We should turn right instead, head into the Yellow Labyrinth. We can use it to go around the Shadow Veldt.” Kolay padded over to them and studied the map. “What is a labyrinth?” “Ancient word for a place where you can very easily get lost,” Hadronus said as he studied the sketched map. “Especially if you don’t know the route through it.” Can you have half a pyramid when the top half is missing? Or is then just a platform or flat hill?
Life restoration of Yi qi by Emily Willoughby. I'm not sure about the scales on the back myself.
Mental Age: 34 "Is your drink bitter? Mine is sweet..." Looking back, I've been 34 for a very long time. Mentally.
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
Prince Valiant from the Legend of Prince Valiant cartoon from the early nineties. I actually thought it had been made in the eighties until I looked it up.
Above the Nebra Sky Disc, below that the Trundholm sun chariot. These were part of the RMO's Vuur van Verandering exhibition I visited last year. Photo by me.
The Mold gold cape or in Welsh: Clogyn Aur yr Wyddgrug. It's actually several centuries older than the gold hat. Photo by me, also taken at the same RMO exhibition 'Vuur van Verandering'.
Golden Hat of Schifferstadt, during the RMO exhibition 'Bronstijd: Vuur van Verandering'. Guess this mage didn't have anything to compensate for. Photo by me.
Image with blue background with a title in white letters: English isn't even my 1st language! Below we see the covers of the 20 books featured in 2 rows of 7 covers and 2 rows of 3 covers. Next to the 3rd and 4th row we have a colorful text box written: 20 stories for $17 May 2 - 23 - itch.io. The bottom of the image has 7 country flags representing the countries taking part in the bundle: Brazil, Czech Republic, Italy, India, Germany, Netherlands, and Malta.
It's the underside of USS Voyager with the title "Hit the Reset Button" above it. A little test of this title card image creator for Star Trek. Of course, I had to take a jab at Voyager's infamous use of resetting the ship at the end of every episode. Can't have lasting consequences.
Fossil of Icaronycteris index holotype at the American Museum of Natural History. It is vengeance, it is the night! Image from Wikipedia.
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
Vampire Crawlers, a deckbuilder demo I played today
Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Force is a pathway to many abilities some call ... illogical.
Image with blue background with a title in white letters: English isn't even my 1st language! Below we see the covers of the 20 books featured in 2 rows of 7 covers and 2 rows of 3 covers. Next to the 3rd and 4th row we have a colorful text box written: 20 stories for $17 May 2 - 23 - itch.io. The bottom of the image has 7 country flags representing the countries taking part in the bundle: Brazil, Czech Republic, Italy, India, Germany, Netherlands, and Malta.
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
A duck and her ducklings just ambling past me.
A drawing showing an interpretation of Lystrosaurus.
The skeleton of a Stegosaurus at Naturalis in Leiden. If you don't vote for them as your favorite dinosaur, they'll thagomize you. Photo by me.
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
Cover of The Living Sword 2 - The Road Ahead by Pemry Janes.
The covers of 9 books on sale in the Indie Book Sale, 11-13 April. Fantasy, Sci Fi & Horror
Indie Book Sale - indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci Fi 7 Horror 11 - 13 April A purplish smoking dragon reads a book surrounded by covers of just some of the books that are taking part in the sale. But for a low price you can get a copy of a part of their hoard.
Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text. Text: Indie Book Sale indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror 11 - 13 April Banner designed by Arden Powell
indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci Fi & Horror 11-13 April The promotional art of a smoking dragn reading a book is surrounded by several covers of books that will be in the sale, including The Living Sword.
British Captain from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: "You are without a doubt the worst Mesopotamian copper merchant I've ever heard of." Wide-eyed statue: "But you HAVE heard of me." The statue is not actually Ea-Nasir even if it is often associated with him in memes. It is actually a votive offering, one of a collection, found at a site North of Ur. We don't know what Ea-Nasir looked like, but given how he managed to hoodwink so many people, he must have had a very magnificent beard. A beard you could trust.
Captain: What a week, huh? Tintin: Captain'it's only wednesday! The captain was supposed to sail the Strait of Hormuz this week, but is having some trouble exchanging his pounds for yuan.
Light filtering through the canopy and illuminating a brilliantly colored Stegosaurus. Art by LLirik-13 on DeviantArt.
Poster of the Jurassic Park movie (1993). Of course, many of the dinosaurs are actually older than 65 million years and were already extinct by the time of the asteroid impact.
An image of the two main characters of Papyrus (1998). The one on the left is called Papyrus and receives a magic sword from the gods. The one on the left is Theti, daughter of the Pharaoh. Took me a little searching as I'd forgotten the name of the cartoon.
The cover of the Eye of the World by Robert Jordan done by Darrel Sweet. Note that there's a cameo of Nicolas Cage in the back. Or Sweet is just better at drawing horses rather than people.
Captain: "What a week, huh?" Tintin: "Captain, it's only Wednesday! Meanwhile, Snowy is just drinking.
Cartoon image of person with ebook reader. Text says: Smashwords (tm) Read an EBook Week. Begins now! smashwords.com/sale
A reconstruction of Eomanis, note the blue person's feet in the background. Obviously another time traveler fading into the time strain again.
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
Captain Haddock says What a week, huh? looking a little disheveled, as if he hasn't drunk enough. Tintin lets the captain know it's only wednesday. His dog doesn't care and starts the weekend early.
FebruaryWorldbuilders WEEK 1: PHYSICAL WORLD 1: Does your world have a name? 2: What’s the size/scope of your world or story? (e.g. a planet, a galaxy, a few islands) 3: Got any maps? 4: Geography of a notable mountain or range 5: Got any deserts (of the hot OR cold variety?) 6: Flora/fungi found in a notable forest? 7: Any notable bodies of water?
FebruaryWorldbuilders WEEK 1: PHYSICAL WORLD 1: Does your world have a name? 2: What’s the size/scope of your world or story? (e.g. a planet, a galaxy, a few islands) 3: Got any maps? 4: Geography of a notable mountain or range 5: Got any deserts (of the hot OR cold variety?) 6: Flora/fungi found in a notable forest? 7: Any notable bodies of water?
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
Murderbot and Doctor Mensa from Murderbot Diaries. Murderbot is in full armor of course because that's when they're the most comfortable.
A drawing of Reynaert the fox, or 'Reynaerde de Vos' in Dutch. But here the more modern spelling Reinaart de Vos is used.
Cover of Lord of the Rings, a tale of good triumphing over evil.
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
2025 Holiday Megasale - more than 300 authors! Over 650 books free or $ 0.99! To benefit the Mary Cariola Center
2025 Holiday Megasale - more than 300 authors! Over 650 books free or $ 0.99! To benefit the Mary Cariola Center
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
Military campaigns Spanish Armada or Great Armada, an unsuccessful attempted invasion of England by Spain in 1588 English Armada or Counter Armada, an unsuccessful English naval campaign in 1589 aimed at capturing Lisbon and other coastal towns from Spain 2nd Spanish Armada, a second unsuccessful Spanish invasion of England in 1596 3rd Spanish Armada, a third unsuccessful Spanish invasion of England in 1597 4th Spanish Armada, a fourth unsuccessful Spanish invasion, this time via Ireland in 1601 Armada of 1779, an unsuccessful attempt to invade England by France and Spain in 1779
An overview of the likes, reposts, replies, and quotes my posts here on Bluesky got so far in 2025.
A photo taken of one of the sets for the Hobbiton movie. Of course, my real dwelling is more square, but it is cozy.
This cape was found in northern Wales and apparently has signs that it was used often. 'Vuur in de Bronstijd' exhibit at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, photo by me.
A Nautilus by Palaeonavix.
The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.
Adorable little bat tells you "I am the Darkness", then "Oh, you want cuddles?", "Ok, I give cuddles." Then reminds you "But I am still the darkness."