R.J. Anderson

@rj-anderson.com

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• 🇨🇦 Fantasy author querying for new rep • 📖 Bible nerd • 🦋 Redemption enthusiast • 🦡 Asian Dramas • 🎼 4th & 5th gen k-pop Mostly just DMs until the WIP is done

Cartoon by Hannah Hillam (@hannahhillam.bsky.social) featuring two cats with full bowls of kibble, one of whom is tragically lamenting "Mother, feed us, for we are but skin and bone" while the other says darkly, "Mother cares not for us"

During the early stages of her career, Park struggled with the comedic requirements of the genre. She noted the difficulty of anticipating what audiences would find amusing and admitted that she did not find her own work personally enjoyable, even when it successfully elicited laughter from others. Upon sharing these concerns with her head writer, she was advised to focus on subjects that brought her personal joy rather than forcing a specific style of humor. Park credited this advice with her decision to persevere in the industry, stating that if she had been forced to follow a rigid formula for comedy, she would not have sustained her passion for writing.

Justin Martyr c. 100-c. 165, Samaria, Rome

Your taste lives in the Justinian neighborhood: a philosopher who kept his philosopher's cloak after baptism, who argued that the Logos had seeded all good philosophy before Christ, who defended Christianity to emperors and debated Jews on equal terms. The cultural neighbors are people committed to making Christian faith intellectually respectable in conversation with the surrounding culture.

"Gratitude" by Eric Enstrom, a photograph of a white-haired elderly woman in a black knitted shawl praying over an open bible on which her reading glasses are lying. A pitcher and a small cheese board sit beside her on the table.

D&D Class Test scores from IDR Labs. Top row shows Cleric at 80%, while bottom row has Paladin at 85% and Wizard at 75%. Lowest score is Sorcerer (20%).

Kpop group P1Harmony performing the choreo to DUH! for a hillside of excited fans

A half eaten butter tart with raisins (excuse me while I eat the other half)

A tin of Meloids, a small black liquorice-flavoured candy advertised to soothe the throat and mellow the voice for speaking and singing

A heaping plate of lamb biryani with raita and a basket of butter naan

A tall milkshake glass filled with a thick, yellow-marbled mango lassi with a decorative swirl of cream on the top and a black straw

The P1Harmony lightstick, a white umbrella-type grip topped with a transparent sphere that has a white orb with a black Batgirl-esque-mask and big boba eyes inside

Sabine, a chocolate point apple head Siamese cat, lies curled on her side on her owner’s lap with her paws folded over her chest and her blue eyes looking up innocently

The word "Yikes" in black gothic lettering with an ornamental capital in full colour.

Changbin from Stray Kids, wearing a blue-green sleeveless shirt draped with gauzy scarves and hints of gold sequins that make him look like a prince

Library paperback of Hilary Mantel’s WOLF HALL, adorned with a pink Dwaekki (pig/bunny) SKZOO bookmark

Me holding the beauteous paperback of Joanna Ruth Meyer’s adult fantasy WHILE THE DARK REMAINS

Cover of A POCKET FULL OF MURDER by R.J. Anderson, showing a blond boy with an eyepatch and a newsboy cap riding a bicycle and a girl with dark, bobbed hair wearing a 1930's style dress sitting behind him as they race down a wooden dock to escape a torch-wielding man

A rectangular white platter displaying two sunny side up eggs, two slices of ham, a generous bowl of fruit and one piece of toast

82MAJOR performing “Illegal” at the Parkdale Hall in Toronto

Video of 82MAJOR performing “Thorns” at the Parkdale Hall in Toronto

Me, a 55-yo woman, smiling at the camera in a darkened room crowded with mostly 18-25 women (and a few guys) screaming at Korean hip-hop idol group 82MAJOR

Buddy, a creamsicle orange tabby, sits on top of a pile of reusable shopping bags gazing soulfully into the camera.

The Moonlit Maze by Zoë Marriott, sitting right between Susanna Kearsley’s books and Mary Stewart’s

UK paperbacks of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett and The Moonlit Maze by Zoe Marriott

Sabine, a chocolate point Siamese cat, is sitting on her owner’s lap in front of the laptop and looking up at the camera with an endearing, almost pleading expression. You would think she had never been petted in her life but that is a LIE.

Sabine, a chocolate point Siamese, curls on a square beige ottoman in a shaft of sunlight. On the gray paisley accent chair next to her Buddy, a creamsicle orange tabby, sits curled in the opposite direction, enjoying a sunbeam of his own.

Sabine, a chocolate point Siamese cat, sits upright in a small white box on a kitchen countertop, gazing at the camera with wide blue eyes

Still from the 1979 historical Canadian TV series Matt and Jenny, in which Duncan Regehr helps two orphans played by a young Megan Follows and uhhh… some boy actor find their family

Buddy, a creamsicle orange tabby cat, and Sabine, a chocolate point Siamese, sit on a desk in front of a half-open window. Sabine is looking back coquettishly over her shoulder at the camera.

A pair of dark wooden bookcases filled with three rows of Middle Grade books and two of YA, topped with a basket containing my TBR pile and next to it a special display of books by my online writing/support group. There is a plaque-mounted Tintin print featuring Haddock and Tintin trudging through the desert in "The Crab With the Golden Claws" displayed on the far right of the bookcases.

Grave marker of Richard Manuel (1943-1986), keyboardist of legendary Canadian rock group The Band. It is a flat dark gray granite with a keyboard etched into it.

Sabine, a chocolate point Siamese cat, reclines on a blue and gray striped bedspread, brown ears pricked and blue eyes gazing serenely at the camera. She’s fabulous and she knows it. A model.

Xdinary Heroes album “Beautiful Mind” (Fallen ver.) including big glossy photo book, CD in black sleeve, lyrics foldout, song title stickers, Gunil double-size postcard, regular sized group postcard, and photocards of Jungsu, Jooyeon, Gaon, and a unit card of O.de, Gaon and Jungsu

Buddy, a creamsicle orange tabby cat, lies stretched waaaaay out on his side with his tummy exposed and eyes shut contentedly, enjoying a sunbeam

Sabine, a chocolate point Siamese cat, lies curled on her owner’s lap with her head cocked to the side and one blue eye looking balefully at the camera

Buddy, a creamsicle orange tabby, lies curled up on his side with his head tucked in to his belly and his back legs sticking out just past his ears

Buddy, a creamsicle orange tabby, lies curled up sleeping contentedly on the very edge of a narrow wooden occasional table with my husband’s wallet and truck keys by his head and my purse at his furry rump. Why he chooses this spot or how he finds it comfortable is a mystery.

Buddy, a creamsicle orange tabby cat, lies stretched out on his side in a sunbeam shining through the patio door. His eyes are closed and his paws curled.

Buddy, a creamsicle orange tabby cat, sits on a wooden floor with his back to the camera. He is in a fairly typical loaf shape but his back end looks a bit like a frog’s

Sabine, a chocolate point Siamese cat, sits on my lap in bed, facing the camera. Her blue eyes are half shut which might be contentment but frankly she looks like she will end me if I dare to move

Sabine, a chocolate point applehead Siamese cat, lies on her owner’s outstretched legs, making herself as long and melty as possible. She is, for the record, purring

Sabine, a chocolate point applehead Siamese, lies curled on her owner’s lap facing the camera, one paw cocked at her shoulder and her head tipped to one side. She looks very fetching but also like she has zero braincells

Sabine, a chocolate point applehead Siamese cat, is draped over her owner’s lap with one paw stretched out stiffly beside her head, because cats are weird.

A white century-old farmhouse stands at the top of a curving asphalt driveway, surrounded by a snowy winter landscape and gray early evening sky. Its lighted windows glow golden, inviting.

A painting by surrealist artist René Magritte depicts a fireplace with a steam locomotive coming out of it, playfully suspended in midair.

An orange creamsicle tabby cat sits with his back to the viewer, his tail tucked under his body and his bottom round and lumpy in a very toad-like way

Merriam-Webster's post saying "Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2025. Godspeed."

My word (which I got TWICE so even cheating didn't help) is "boffo".

Photocards from Stray Kids’ SKZHOP HIPTAPE album showing Changbin (bias), Bang Chan, I.N (wrecker) and two of Felix (ult bias)

Full list of 2024 k-dramas from Soompi, showing purple X's beside Death's Game and Love Next Door (meaning I dropped them), purple checks beside My Demon, Queen of Divorce, Queen of Tears and Welcome to Samdalri (meaning I finished but didn't love them) and green checks beside Doctor Slump, Lovely Runner, Marry My Husband, My Sweet Mobster, No Gain No Love, Serendipity's Embrace, The Atypical Family, The Midnight Romance in Hagwon, and The Story of Park's Marriage Contract.

Linocut print by IG user reinpress, depicting a floating tardigrade surrounded by the slogan “Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to”.

Buddy, a creamsicle orange tabby, sits curled on a red pillow with a white snowflake design, looking drowsy and bemused that I am photographing him

Sabine, a chocolate point Siamese cat, sits on her owner’s plaid flannel pajama-clad legs in a peaceful-looking living room on Christmas morning.

Bang Chan, Han and Changbin (aka 3RACHA, the rap/production unit of Stray Kids) sit side by side on a black leather sofa, all wearing denim jackets and colourful track pants and grinning like loons