John Wiswell

@wiswell.bsky.social

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Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell

Werner Herzog speaking, with a speech bubble as though he is saying the below text.
Barnes & Noble's OUR BEST NEW FICTION list, with THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS right in the middle.
John's shoes sitting on the rug.
John Wiswell and Jo Miles laughing on stage in front of the Greedy Reads store sign.
John laughing as he listens to Riley Black being brilliant.
A crocheted dragon sits in front of copies of The Dragon Has Some Complaints and The Staircase in the Woods.
A decorative tower of luggage from the lobby of the Doylestown Inn.
John smiling in front of the Strand logo wall. He wears a burgundy jacket like the devil, but his hands are praying. What a nice boy.
A copy of THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS is tucked into bed as though it is a sleeping person.
Three copies of KILL ALL WIZARDS sitting together above a shelf talker.
A shelfie of Meg Elison's Foundling Fathers, sitting above a shelf talker gushing about the book.
John smiling from over a veritable wall of copies of his book. Good times!
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John opens a cardboard box using a sword, revealing his new Fantasy novel is inside.
Kirby, the pink Nintendo character, sits at a desk with a placard reading "Expert." He is on the phone. Kirby looks happy as he says, "No."
We're one week out from The Dragon Has Some Complaints flying into the world! July 14: The Strand, NYC, with Sarah Beth Durst July 15: Doylestown Bookshop, Doylestown PA, with Chuck Wendig July 16: Huxley & Hiro Booksellers, Wilmington, Delaware July 17: Solid State Books, Washington DC, with Riley Black July 18: Greedy Reads, Baltimore MD, with Jo Miles
Captain Marvel/Shazam chowing down on a loaded hot dog. He says, "Mmm... You know, I think of all the advancements in civilization I've seen so far, hot dogs from a cart might be the very best one!"
Cillian Murphy pointing in people's faces. He says, "no posting that you can go to jail over. No fucking posting that you can go to jail over."
A quote from a NYTimes op-ed reading "I am not completely opposed to contraception. I think, though, that women in particular should behave as if contraception doesn’t exist… Maybe that’s my concrete proposal: that you should use contraception within marriage rather than as a means of seeming to have consequence-free sex.” I've screen-capped it because OP posted a link to the op-ed, and sharing the op-ed is exactly what the author wants.
A news story reading: How Private Equity Destroyed Toys “R” Us: The Real Story Behind the Bankruptcy November 30, 2025 Updated April 6, 2026 Abandoned Toys ‘R’ Us store representing the company’s bankruptcy and decline
Three previews of emails which all use the same sentence structure to try to invite John to fake book clubs. It's the most common LLM book spam.
Premee grimaces at a dinosaur bone which has John's head photoshopped onto it. How friendly!
A list of things in THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS, which releases July 14th. The list includes: -a dragon-rider book from the POV of the dragon -disabled dragon wants to learn to fly again -flying island full of bi, gay, & trans riders -dragons can be ace -sky battles and explosions -we have to pretend we're tame so they'll feed us -my favorite thing to BURN is fascism -can i eat my physical therapist? -three-headed dragon keeps getting into fights with himself
Harvey from Farscape wears a Hawaiian shirt and is talking to Crichton.
Homer Simpson pointing to his drawing of the worst car ever imagined.
A screenshot showing Someone You Can Build A Nest In is #871 on the Kindle Store.
r/Fantasy with one of the top threads being SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN being 2.99 on Kindle
Smaug laying on a mound of golden coins and treasure.
A Balatro game over screen. It relays the following: Best Hand: 2.881e158 (HIGH SCORE) Ante: 24 (HIGH SCORE) Round: 78 (HIGH SCORE)
The worst damned bottle you've ever seen with red squiggles in it. They're red squiggles of love, though. IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
An excerpt from the Booklist review of The Dragon Has Some Complaints, with a star next to the title denoting the book is special. The excerpt is just the start of the review, and reads "Centerhead, one of the three remaining heads of Garrodigh, the Great Terror, has complaints about everyone: the other wild dragons exclude him from their hiding spaces; the tame dragons won’t talk; the humans’ cannonball removed his missing head, Lefty, leaving him with PTSD and memory loss; and most of all, his other two heads, Upperhead and Bottomhead, are a constant bother. Regularly assailed by human air battles overhead, and unable to fly because of injuries from when they lost Lefty, Centerhead allows himself to be rescued as a “tame” dragon, planning to attack the Winged City from within. After they’ve fed him, of course. To his great surprise, he develops an attachment to some of the humans as they heal his..."
Plastic Man stretching his neck.
A mafia don with an eyepatch smokes a cigar and talks about how everyone fears him. Then we see a cheery lady who is waving excitedly at him and saying, "Hey there, handsome!" He takes a drag on his cigar and says, "She scares me."
A crayon drawing of a brick wall. A hole in the wall serves as a door. In the shadow of the door are two red dots, as though eyes are looking at you.
The stats from a text document. Word count: 46,493.
Two skeets from my timeline. The first is a child refusing to poop on the toilet anymore. The second is of a yellow treasure chest opening to reveal it is a fanged mimic.
A pencil drawing of a t-rex carrying a plastic extending grabby arm. The caption reads, "Unstoppable..."
Superboy #2, circa 1994. Knockout, a villainess in a green leotard with red hair, casually uppercuts Superboy so hard he flies up to the top of the cover and breaks through the "boy" part of the Superboy logo. The text at the bottom reads: SHE'S A KNOCKOUT! Cover by Tom Grummett and Karl Kesel.
A video of John Wiswell opening what he thinks is a box of his newest book, only to find it is instead the paperback of his previous book. He laughs really hard.
TEAM A The Exorcist Bram Stoker's Dracula Lake Mungo Nightmare on Elm Street Paranormal Activity Final Destination 3 Trick 'r Treat Unfriended The Conjuring John Carpenter's Halloween TEAM B Jaws 28 Days Later Coherence Perfect Blue Blair Witch Project Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives One Cut of the Dead Tremors The Descent Scream
The sword Vs. spear fight from MF'in HERO.
The Star Trek title card generator is used to display the Star Wars: A New Hope opening lore crawl.
A map of the Mediterranean that circles Greece and labels GREECE and AFRICA in huge letters in case people missed that they are right next to each other.
The New York Times tweets about an op-ed titled "A cattle ranch is doing what ivy league colleges can't." The tweet says, "The problem on college campuses is not just that students lack civility, Michal Leibowitz writes, but that "our college education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves."
Gimli saying "Any my axe," while holding a can of Axe body spray.
A blank page because I WRITE THINGS I DON'T PAY TOKENS FOR A ROBOT TO DO IT FOR ME
“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. Unfortunately” ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The New Yorker posting a new short story but instead of crediting the author, they call her "The author name."
John's profile, which says he has 40k followers.
Dr. Who holding up a sonic screwdriver and speaking.
Wolverine joining a young lady in the dining room to chow down on ice cream.
A PS5 copy of Saros.
The cover of Catfishing on CatNet with a speech bubble, as though the bot from CatNet is saying the below text.
A Scrivener statistics box that says the document is currently 30,632 words long.
A Financial Times story with the headline 'IT'S SHAMEFUL': NEW YORK'S ELITE LASH OUT AT ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S SECOND-HOME TAX PLAN
A dril tweet edited to read: issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding MTG. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them."
A spam email from Audible advertising "The next title in Iliad and Odyssey is almost here!"
Karl Urban frowning so hard wearing the funniest future helmet in Dredd (2012).
The domino meme with the smallest domino being "some corner store in queens in 1946 is out of condoms" and the largest being "the fall of the american empire."
A tall stack of unsigned bookplates for The Dragon Has Some Complaints, done in the color scheme of the cover, with the signature area done in paler tones with a dragon's scales. A smaller stack is next to it, this one being signed.