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J.A. Jablonski | Resolute Death out Oct 28! @jajablonski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎉 Cover Reveal Day! 🥳 So jazzed to show off the cover of RESOLUTE DEATH, my academic mystery novel debuting on 28 October! Preorder info here (plus bonus audio narration of the opening Prelude): jajablonski.com/books/ (Book description in alt-text.) #AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CollegeCrime

Front and back cover of Resolute Death by J.A. Jablonski. Original art: Stephen Richards. Front is a presentation. Against an all-white background, is a large black raven in flight. All-caps, dark red title is set midway on the cover. Text below in a small, black serif font reads "An Osley College Novel." Below that, in a dark red font matching the title is the author's name.

The back cover shows more of Richards' design: black and grey, ink-wash drawings of tree trunks against a white background. Superimposed is the book description/blurb: a roughly, dark-red outlined box enclosing the book's description:

"Resolute Death offers an intense, immersive tale with masterful plotting. An essential read for those who love an intricately woven mystery that highlights loss, memory, retribution, and found family.

When a glamorous music professor is found dead in the carillon tower of Osley College, a small liberal arts college in the Driftless Region of western Wisconsin, Maude Ascham, the new chief of campus police, has her hands full. Her investigation leads to porn-watching students, an angry boyfriend, a betrayed lover, and feuding colleagues. Students, faculty, and staff: all are implicated. When the Dean of Libraries commits a gruesome suicide three weeks later, the investigation becomes more than a matter of murder.

Who is blackmailing James North, the bereaved, ex-hobo English professor and celebrated poet? Why would someone destroy the 175-year-old bonsai of the cantankerous college gardener? Was last December’s drowning of a senior music student really an accident? And what of Ariel Ellis, the eccentric, blue-haired barista, who is clearly hiding something behind their theatrical banter; and Esha Larkin, the maps librarian seen weeping on the old library’s roof at dawn? Each appears to hold a vital piece of a dangerous puzzle. There is a killer on campus . . . can they be stopped?"

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've read this - intriguing premise and plot execution, nicely styled dialogue, and well researched, including the historical illustrations. Recommended!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Semantics question: are you "bingeing" a series if you watch just one episode per evening?

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

COVID vax booster is kicking my butt

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Of all the crappy types of roster moves, the DFA of a relief pitcher who just saved your bullpen by mopping up over multiple innings has to rank near the top. #Brewers

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I don't know spit from shinola about FIFA and the business of international football, but from the headlines it reads like Infantino has been taking meetings with Edwin Akufo.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I tried to write a Hermes joke, but I'll just have to wing it.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The good news is the N95 masks seem to filter out some of the wildfire smoke, as reported. There's a huge difference in smoky smell with and without the mask.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

As a centrist, I'm rooting for Andorra.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Glad you all enjoyed the Home Run Derby. We rewatched the first episode of Zen. Our Italian vacation. IMDb: Zen (2011) www.imdb.com/title/tt1618...

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

France v Morocco ref looks like Christian Yelich. Apropos of nothing

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

After the defenders clear the ball upfield, I keep expecting them to go for a line change. #confused

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Incredible! I wonder if they will make a movie about this match, Miracle Not On Ice.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tired: "Bobby Bonilla Day", heh heh heh. Wired: A million a year? He's getting rooked! Inspired: Eliminate the FICA cap on taxable earnings, even on Bobby Bonilla Day.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Rah! Rah! Rah! We beat part of Yugoslavia!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Me: If England doesn't win... Everyone Else: Don't say it Me: ...today's World Cup match, they will... Everyone Else: For the lovva pete, don't say it Me: ...be real ghanas Everyone Else: FFS, dude

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Clearly, the markets disapprove of the Giannis trade. S&P off nearly 1%.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

#Brewers take the first hole in this 9-hole match play contest.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Next field goal wins in this 3 OT Brewers A's debacle.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Unpopular opinion: I don't hate the ghost runner extra innings rule during the regular season.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Apparently my best chess.com strategy is to blunder early, wait for my equally rated, inept opponent to miss the opportunity to take advantage of it while I make sidestepping escape moves, and then checkmate them without realizing it.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Kids, what's the first thing to do when you enter a hotel room for the first time? Wrong! You check to see if someone has pre-set the alarm clock next to your head to go off at 5:25 a.m. at full, fire-klaxon volume. Also, how to shut it off, thus preventing your piercing the air with a second alarm.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I was just saying this to someone at the pregame tailgate

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Congrats to Dartmouth Men's Hockey, 2026 ECAC tournament champions! Surpassed the 1979 and 1980 squads that finished second in the East during my college years. Makes this WDCR/WFRD sportscasting alumnus very happy. On to the Regionals!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Still recall a Joe Garagiola feature about baseball in Italy that aired on the Today Show in the 1970s. "Error-e! Error-e!" shouted the exuberant fans in unison, like a football chant. Congrats!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Thanks, hon! Game's already a barnburner, would have been a total crusher to miss it! How could I have slept throughzzzzzzzzzzz

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

RIP Bill Mazeroski, HOF second baseman for the #Pirates. I'm reliably informed that I was in the crib listening to the radio broadcast when he hit his Game 7 walk-off home run to defeat the Yankees in the 1960 World Series. I trust my source.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Nobody at the IOC: Absolutely nobody at the IOC: Me: "Halfpipe Monobob" IOC: ...so, more Curling, then

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

After which time, ageism in the Cretaceous job market took its toll.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The SNL Contractual Obligation season continues.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Said it before: a penalty shot foul in hockey should result in a penalty shot *plus* two-minutes in the box.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This hasn't felt like Friday, the whole day.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I've been a sports fan for life, my favorite team has a great coach (manager), and even so, I agree with the epithet "gym teachers".

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hot take: pre-game studio shows have pretty much run their course.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Fell asleep for most of the second half and still put up more points than the Packers.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Great fun to see the Division III MSOE women's hockey team beat Lawrence this afternoon. But don't worry; he's okay. #rimshot

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Thanks to all the baseball writers who worked overtime to publish today's World Series postmortems. Not ready for the reading-about-#MLB season to be over!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Marking myself safe after an 18-inning, 6:39 game. In case anyone asks.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Not the best era for an INTP. The F and J are annoyingly nosing their way into the proverbial tent.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

We're about one inning away from Bill Clement looping his necktie around his head. #Tigers #Mariners

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Wish the #NFL would take better advantage of its international game telecasts to add just a bit of local color as a mini-travelogue.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I admire Pat Murphy's leadership, but he's got to take charge and lift Contreras right away, not a few batters later. #Brewers

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This #Brewers game was so lost, I bailed for an inning - so glad I rejoined for the full comeback! Congrats to the Crew on a well-earned W!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I was so wrong about the #Brewers earlier this season - had them pegged as a .500 team. What a treat this summer has been.

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