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Jarod K. Anderson

@jarodkanderson.bsky.social
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Fiction. Poetry. Nonfiction. Memoir: Something in the Woods Loves You - Timber Press Sept 2024 New Fantasy Novel: Strange Animals - Ballantine Books Feb 2026 Poetry: The Haunted Forest Trilogy Podcast: The Cryptonaturalist linktr.ee/jarodkanderson

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Allison Bailey @msallisonbailey.bsky.social · 12h
You know when you read a book and can’t stop thinking about it, even after a lot of time has elapsed? Like, for whatever reason, it just has an extra helping of staying power? For me rn, that book is Strange Animals by @jarodkanderson.bsky.social. Read it in July and it’s still regularly on my mind.
Image of the book cover for Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson, which has the title and author in white script with illustrated moths around them and a background image of a celestial-esque creature behind a mountainscape with a pine tree in the center.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 14h
There were periods of my life when I was a shark stuck in a lawn chair. I felt doomed and totally unequipped to deal with the world. But the problem wasn’t me. The problem was that I was trapped in a context that made my strengths feel like weaknesses.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 19h
Just block AI apologists. Why would you spend actual human effort arguing with somebody who has made outsourcing their thinking/writing to a machine their central passion? Who would you really be arguing with? Might as well put sunglasses on a lamp and spend time arguing with that.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Which animals can "haunt" without dying first? Foxes? Deer? Jellyfish?
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you use AI for any part of your writing process, just go ahead and have AI simulate a reader response too. What's the difference?
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Once upon a time, a small pig fell in love with a tiny castle. Some other stuff happened and that’s how armadillos entered the world. The End
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can love yourself and still desire to change. I love my garden, but I plant new things constantly. My love doesn't require immutability.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic
Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The secret to fiction is building a weird little guy who obviously needs the reader’s supervision.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Snails have everything I want in life: Free housing. A slow lifestyle. Thousands of teeth. Abundant slime.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think facing the cenobites or the xenomorph or the Babadook would be easier if you had Scooby Doo around trying to pronounce their names.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ah, you criticize AI on a platform that uses AI? Interesting. Ah, you criticize drunk driving while using the same roads as drunk drivers? Interesting. Ah, you’re against murder, but breathe the same air as murderers? Interesting. I am very smart and skilled at crafting relevant arguments.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t feel like writing today. I’m doing it anyway, but I’m eating chocolate about it.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“You’re 45, so it’s time to get a colonoscopy.” Cold. Impersonal. Uninspiring. “Two score and five autumns have cooled your brow, so we must search your corn-maze for haunts.” Mysterious. Fun. Seasonal.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sometimes it takes a lot of focus and intentionality to remember that I’m on social media because I like connection and community NOT because I accidentally got a demanding internship at a shitty tech company.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anytime I see somebody saying we live in the worst possible future, I can’t help but think it must be nice to have such sturdy guardrails on your imagination.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Jarod K. Anderson: Nature, Depression and Paying Attention
For poet and writer Jarod K. Anderson, paying attention to the natural world is more than a creative practice – it is a way of resisting
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve read it and it’s really good.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Getting hooked on writing and poetry when I was 10 was sorta like planting mint in the garden. I didn’t know what I was starting and by the time I understood it was much too late to change my mind.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tadpoles work hard to get big enough and strong enough to eat bugs. I try to remember their struggle so that I don’t take my own ability to eat bugs for granted. #thankful
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Hey, this river could use a hallway.” -Covered Bridges
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If I peered into a knothole and found you snoozing cozy within, my eyes would light up and I would tiptoe away to protect your sleep.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Writing is like the fossil of a thought. Your intangible inner self becoming a leaf silhouette on stone. Dig down into the old stuff and face how you’ve changed.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I like how writing a book creates something smarter than I am. If I set a couple small stones in a sack each day, it won’t take long before I can no longer lift what I have collected. The small, intentional acts of our days gain a strength and life of their own. There’s a kind of magic in that.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨ICYMI COVER REVEAL🚨 We're bringing @jarodkanderson.bsky.social /The Cryptonaturalist 's STRANGE ANIMALS to the UK next March with this fabulous cover by Sam Gretton! The heart of TJ Klune meets the eccentricity of WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE in this wonderous urban fantasy. Preorder geni.us/StraAnimals
Against a background of psychedelic coloured woodland, the UK book cover for STRANGE ANIMALS by Jarod K. Anderson.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pfft. Nice try tourist brochure. I know a horror movie premise when I see one.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨COVER REVEAL🚨 We're bringing @jarodkanderson.bsky.social / The Cryptonaturalist 's STRANGE ANIMALS to the UK next March with this fabulous cover by Sam Gretton! The heart of TJ Klune meets the eccentricity of WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE in this wonderous urban fantasy. Preorder geni.us/StraAnimals
Against a background of psychedelic coloured woodland, the UK book cover for STRANGE ANIMALS by Jarod K. Anderson.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UK cover reveal from Solaris!
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hear me out...
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Anybody going to Dragon Con next week? Here's my (tentative) panel/signing schedule. Hope to see you there! substack.com/@jarodkander...
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Anyone else going to Dragon Con next week? Here is my tentative panel/signing plans: Jarod K Anderson: Convention Dates are Thu(9/3/26), Fri(9/4/26), Sat(9/5/26), Sun(9/6/26), and Mon(9/7/26) Ti...
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tale as old as time Song as old as rhyme Baja and the blast
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m trying to be realistic and manage my expectations. I just want to see America rise from the level of Jaba the Hutt up to say… Gritty. Is that so much to ask?
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Some poems are an attempt to turn ourselves into words in order to leave our bodies behind. Like tossing a message in a bottle and hoping, somehow, that we’ll be the ones tumbling through the air.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hey ebook readers. Big discount on the kindle/ebook version of Strange Animals for the next few days.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Can anybody recommend a freelance artist who can paint one of those painting that will age instead of me? I do have an attic to hang it in, if that matters.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Me and my beard are so ready to discover a giant flower with delicious nectar. My fuzzy face would make me such a good pollinator.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Writing means summoning your own ghost, finding that you contain more than one, then meeting them over and over and over again.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I love science. I love poetry and philosophy. I love curiosity and empathy. I worry that my kind of love is quiet while the love of taking, of owning, of surrendering to endless want is very, very loud.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you hear a weird noise under your bed one night, the important question isn't, "what's making that sound?" The important question is, "why aren't you under there making weird sounds?" Don't leave such satisfying work for others. Get involved.
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I Traded My Eyes @itradedmyeyes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I liked the Odyssey, but I wish they'd included the story of Bophades.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There may certainly be obstacles beyond our control, but more and more I discover that peace, purpose, and meaning aren’t found things, they are chosen things. Homemade things.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
People think it's just the Geico Gecko, but in reality lots of spokespeople eat crickets.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Well, well, well,” said the soggy ghost when asked for her address in triplicate.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Me trying to comfort my puppy about thunder: "It's okay guy. This world is bonkers and sometimes the sky sort of explodes. But we also have the blankets and hugs and treats that help us be strong enough together to smile at a noisy sky now and then." I think it's working.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Do you ever think about how certain types of stones make certain Pokémon evolve and how you probably haven’t touched every kind of stone on Earth yet? Food for thought.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ok, I know using leeches as medicine is frowned upon now. But where are we on using them recreationally?
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