Jonathan Wood
@jonathanwood.bsky.social
Gamer, geek, and author (the Hero series as Jonathan Wood, the Dragon Lords series as Jon Hollins, and City of Iron and Dust as JP Oakes). jonathanwood.substack.com
I can't help but notice that it's Halloween and I have a book out that Ginger Nuts of Horror called "One of the most disciplined horror novels of the year." www.underlandpress.com/washed-up-on...
Washed Up On Dark Shores - Underland Press
WASHED UP ON DARK SHORES by Jonathan Wood Published September 15th, 2026ISBN 978-1-63023-132-3 BUY: PRINT | EBOOK Look here. Three fools come for a reckoning. DANNY staggering through life, wounded in...
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Another week comes to a close, and I mark it with another bit of weird fiction. This is the last story of Year 3 of Something's a Little Off, so my 156th bit of flash fiction if my math is right. I hope folk enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/a-report-f...
Some thoughts about swinging for the fences, and whether it's worth it, and why imho it really always is. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/making-big...
A new week = a new bit of audio. This week, a woman either charts her descent into a tunnel or the decline of her relationship. You decide. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/a-map-of-t...
Having spent half the afternoon trying to remember a song I last listened to in 2005, I have finally tracked down "Everything is Alright" by Motion City Soundtrack. This feels like a good way to close out the work week...
Motion City Soundtrack - Everything Is Alright
YouTube video by Epitaph Records
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Another Friday. Another free story. Another oddity. This week, I wondered if I could turn a map into a story. Because apparently that's how my brain works. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/a-map-of-t...
I don't mention this very often, but if you're the sort of person who like solo RPGs, I wrote a solo RPG and it's free. jonathanpwood.itch.io/a-land-of-bl...
A Land of Blood & Honey by jonathanpwood
A solo journaling & map-making rpg of hope and horror
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Today: I am judgy about other people's writing advice, so you can be judgy about my opinions of other people's writing advice! Enjoy. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/some-occas...
Check it. Good people publishing a good magazine.
Jason Sanford@jasonsanford.bsky.social · 2w agoApex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social is doing their annual Kickstarter and I urge everyone to back one of the genre's most constantly amazing magazines! BONUS: If you share this post you're in the running to receive a signed book from me. Details in thread. 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Looks like a lot of great books are coming out today! So buy Rustbelt Gothic and all the rest and BE SPOILED FOR AWESOME BOOKS (yes, Rustbelt Gothic comes out today, you know you want to buy it) www.amazon.com/Rustbelt-Got... here's the book trailer
Rustbelt Gothic Book Trailer
YouTube video by Paul Jessup
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HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY to @pauljessup.com! "Rustbelt Gothic" hits shelves today like an absolute atom bomb. www.underlandpress.com/rustbelt-got...
Rustbelt Gothic - Underland Press
RUSTBELT GOTHIC by Paul Jessup To Be Published: October 20th, 2026ISBN 978-1-63023-133-0 BUY: PRINT Coppercreek is barely a century old—a child, as far as towns go, born in an age of steel and steam. ...
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Morning. A fresh Monday = fresh audio. The subject of this week's story: a mysterious mall. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/selected-h...
Morning! Another Friday, another story. This week: paranormal shopping malls and government reports. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/selected-h...
Another day, another audio edition of a story. I never go into these flash pieces sure how they'll turn out, but I'm quite happy with this one. I applied a bunch of lessons learned from playing around with horror over the past 3 years. Hopefully folk enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/an-apology...
Morning! Why not close out your week with a few minutes of horror? As a break from... you know, all the horror. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/an-apology...
Morning. Today: some quick thoughts about who we write for, and why we write for them, and what everyone gets out of the whole thing. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/who-is-you...
New Amon Amarth album sounds exactly like an Amon Amarth album, so as far as I'm concerned it's an absolute banger.
Morning. It's Monday, which means free audio. Six minutes to explore what might have really been going on behind Aesop's most popular fable. But which probably wasn't. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/the-tortoi...
Morning. Fresh friday = fresh fiction. This week: do you know the full story of the tortoise and the hare? Yes, you probably do. But I made up some additional nonsense for your amusement anyway. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/the-tortoi...
Morning. Just a short sharp piece of fiction today as I've been under the weather. A living city. A problem. A terrible solution. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/the-city-s...
Morning! New Monday, a new piece of absurdity. This is a light tie-in to Washed Up on Dark Shores (available now!) but also a self-contained bit of horror-comedy. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/notes-from...
Oh look, it's the end of the week. Why don't you reward all your hard work with this chill little novella about three lovely people going through absolute hell and being confronted with the nightmare of greed that we have all created for ourselves? You deserve it. www.amazon.com/Washed-Dark-...
Another Friday. Another free story. This week: a light tie-in to Washed Up on Dark Shores (did I mention that's now available???). Also a self-contained horror comedy. Enjoy! jonathanwood.substack.com/p/notes-from...
The monsters have had their turn. Now the henchpeople are organising. The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing by Marshall J. Moore is a warm, wickedly funny Gothic fantasy about invisible labour, found family and the most dangerous thing in the castle: a staff meeting. gnofhorror.com/the-henchper...
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Did I already link to this review 5,000 times? I can't remember... gnofhorror.com/washed-up-on...
Washed Up On Dark Shores By Jonathan Wood: Greed Given A Body - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Jonathan Wood's Washed Up on Dark Shores turns greed into a living god of Mammon. A five-star cosmic horror review from Ginger Nuts of Horror.
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Morning. Whenever I have a new book come out, some people will ask me if there's a place they can buy it that helps me out more. Basically because they're delightful. But the answer isn't super straightforward, which is why I wrote this. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/where-shou...
