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𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒫𝒶𝓇𝓀ℯ𝓇 @philspeculates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hope you don't mind me piggybacking on your praise for Mike's latest book but my review is here and it explains why it such innovative fantasy and why I love it! (Iconoclasts is a favourite if mine too!) Go buy West of the World by @mikeshel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuK...

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My review West of the World by Mike Shel

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Iconoclasts books by @mikeshel.bsky.social have been among my favorite books for a long time. Now West of the World joins them in their hallowed position. Gritty, intricate, dark, and totally unique - I wholeheartedly recommend it. mybook.to/cjm1

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

DID YOU KNOW that I have a Royal Road? And that I've been posting preview chapters of THE ONLY WAY OUT IS UP there? It's true! Click on over and you can read the first nine chapters! (You can also check out my RR fiction THE THIRTEENTH GOD. Of which more anon!) www.royalroad.com/fiction/1472...

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Great to meet MST3K great Felicia Day at my local comic con. #GraniteCon

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I love my house. It’s my home. I’ve poured my time and wealth into improving it. That’s why I would be so embarrassed if it was crawling with rats.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In the grim darkness of the far future, nobody has eyebrows.

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Kyle @kylecat22.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

#booksky review: I’ll probably always enjoy anything written by @jzacharypike.bsky.social His characters, prose, and pacing are consistently checking boxes in my brain. Can’t wait to see what’s next!

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Zamil Akhtar @zamakhtar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

All together

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Adam @metalmadecrafts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Can't wait to read this! Excellent month with this on the heels of Carl.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Crypt Currency is now on Audible 🎧 Gorm Ingerson's latest misadventure — a satirical romp through necromancy, ledgers, and very bad financial decisions — is finally in audio. Narrated by returning voice Doug Tisdale Jr. www.audible.com/pd/Crypt-Cur...

Audiobook cover for Crypt Currency: A Lesson in Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike. Three figures stand on a dim city street beneath a glowing green compass-and-coin emblem behind the title. Center: a bearded dwarf in a wide-brimmed hat, lit from below by a green-glowing skull-tipped weapon. Left: a blonde elf in a brown feathered hat and teal coat, holding a glowing blue card. Right: a gray-haired mustachioed man in a long coat. A small shiba inu peeks in at the bottom right.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Today is the day! @mattdinniman.bsky.social drops Dungeon Crawler Carl 8. I drop Crypt Currency on KU. Bad planning on my part, but we can salvage it! Let's make it like Barbenheimer. Crypt Crawler? Carl Currency? Bottom lineL Read DCC 8 first, then Crypt Currency. www.amazon.com/Crypt-Curren...

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Tomorrow morning, Crypt Currency goes live on Kindle Unlimited. Gorm Ingerson is back. He's up against a financial revolution, a rising tide of undead, and a cultural reckoning that's entirely his own fault. Naturally, it's a love story. www.amazon.com/Crypt-Curren...

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Amazon.com: Crypt Currency: A Lesson In Orconomics eBook : Pike, J. Zachary: Kindle Store

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

1 hour left on the Crypt Currency Kickstarter.Sprayed edges are unlocked. Backers are voting on the design. The campaign closes at 6pm ET.If you've been meaning to back, this is the meaning-to-back-it part. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jza...

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Crypt Currency: A Lesson in Orconomics

A new comedic fantasy set in the same world as the Dark Profit Saga — in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and premium collector's editions.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Sprayed page edges UNLOCKED. Crypt Currency just crossed $60k, which means the premium hardcovers are getting sprayed edges. (The pattern goes to a backer poll.) One stretch goal left. Closes today at 6pm ET. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jza...

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Crypt Currency: A Lesson in Orconomics

A new comedic fantasy set in the same world as the Dark Profit Saga — in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and premium collector's editions.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The Crypt Currency Kickstarter closes today at 6pm ET. We're closing in on sprayed page edges, with one more stretch goal beyond that. Final hours to back a satirical fantasy novel about speculative assets, necromancy, and love. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jza...

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Crypt Currency: A Lesson in Orconomics

A new comedic fantasy set in the same world as the Dark Profit Saga — in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and premium collector's editions.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I didn't know that Dungeon Crawler Carl is a musical now. youtu.be/JH3mYQaSA7I

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I Knead Dem Biscuits

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It was called the Iran nuclear deal. You threw it out because it was negotiated by a black president.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My latest novel skewers speculative assets that are prone to manipulation, and traded by people who don't understand them. But it's got wizards, Dwarves, and the undead, so it's way more fun than #cryptocurrency. Crypt Currency comes to Kickstarter soon www.kickstarter.com/projects/jza...

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Coming soon: Crypt Currency: A Lesson in Orconomics

A new comedic fantasy set in the same world as the Dark Profit Saga — in paperback, hardcover, and deluxe collector's editions.

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QuiteBrief @quitebrief.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - D&D - Adventuring start ups - Redemption! - Economic satire - Funny & clever writing. Try: @jzacharypike.bsky.social's Orconomics jzacharypike.com/pages/orcono... A disgraced dwarf leads a team of misfits on a quest with low odds of success that is more than it seems.

Cover of J. Zachary Pike's Orconomics

A background that looks like a banded treasure chest with borders and a shield with crossed swords where the keyhole would be has a burning five Giltin note on top of it.
(And George Sellas deserves an award for this cover because there are so many clever references in it to both book events and actual currency that it really reflects the spirit of the book, as well as being awesome in it's own right)
The note looks like a United States 5 dollar bill, where all the elements have been replaced with look alike images and text.
There's
The Bearded orc portrait (Orc-raham Lincoln?)
the Five Gitlin across the bottom
ORCONOMICS printed as the bill's serial number
The Freedlands in top right
The watermark of the dragon holding a spellbook in it's right rear claw and a sword in it's left rear claw while holding a shield with a star on it and grasping a banner with Latin written on it in it's mouth.
it's stamped with a medallion that is Great Seal of The Heroes guild with a sword piercing something.
The signature is Weaver Ortson
Cover text reads
J. Zachary Pike
"One of my favorite fantasy
trilogies of all time."
-Nicholas Eames, author of
Kings of The Wyld
Orconomics
A Satire
Book 1
The Dark
Profit
Saga

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go. Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I guess war criminals just gotta war crime.

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

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Trans Continental Pipeline

Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2026

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories

Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Counterpoint: Today isn't any different, because Trump has a chance to stop being a corrupt sack of pig droppings and start turning things around every goddamn day.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If urging people to follow the law is sedition against a government, it follows that said government must be lawless.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Congrats to M L Wang for her victory in SPFBO tournament of champion! I had the pleasure of reading Sword of Kaiden this year, and it deserves all of the accolades. Well deserved!

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Every year I watch the classic Rankin-Bass Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and every year I am shocked at what a colossal dick Santa is in it.

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Esme Weatherwax 📚🧶🦉🌳🔬📸 🌈 ally @esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Current read <3 An amazing follow up to Orconomics. It's Pratchett adjacent with a big theme on classism, racism, and economics. A rare instance where I feel compelled to complete the series since usually I am fine with book 1 only. #sff #comedy #satire #spfbo #indiebooks #selfpub 💙📚📘📗🐉🧝‍♀️💰

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I'm a big fan of the work @blog.readindiefantasy.com do so I took the opportunity to contribute a post on some of the worldbuilding I've enjoyed in indie fantasy. Talking about @patricksamphire.bsky.social , @jzacharypike.bsky.social , @cmcaplanwrites.bsky.social and Hiyodori (not of this parish.)

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Timy 🐼👑 @queensbookasylum.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today @bjornlarssen.com reviews SON OF A LICHE and DRAGONFIRED, books 2 and 3 of @jzacharypike.bsky.social's satirical fantasy series, The Dark Profit Saga. "I was given an opportunity to spend lots of time with near-perfection, and that is a rare wonder." queensbookasylum.com/2025/11/19/s...

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Son Of A Liche / Dragonfired By J. Zachary Pike - Queen's Book Asylum

Bjørn reviews SON OF A LICHE and DRAGONFIRED, books 2 and 3 of J. Zachary Pike's satirical fantasy series, The Dark Profit Saga.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Somewhere in America today, people are fighting for the rights of immigrants, the civil liberties of those illegally detained, and the vindication of those improperly prosecuted by this farce of an administration. Someday, one of those people will win the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump never will.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The news that Donald Trump did not win a Nobel Peace Prize is akin to the news that I did not win an Emmy.

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I wish we could do a boycott to get Colbert to keep his show too, but nobody has Paramount+ to begin with. #jimmykimmel

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I just finished "Orconomics" by @jzacharypike.bsky.social and it was a great time - a crew of washed up adventurers get a second chance in a classic RPG-setting world where the economy is based on adventuring. Following the concept to it's logical(?) conclusion leads to a twisty rollercoaster ride.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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J. Zachary Pike @jzacharypike.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I don’t think anyone should die from gun violence. It’s horrible that it happens so frequently; that it’s cost us so much; that we’re all so numb to it. It doesn’t have to be this way. I really wish Charlie Kirk didn’t get what he campaigned for. We’d all be better off if he didn’t. Even him.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

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Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”

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Matthew Phillion @matthewphillion.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This trilogy was my absolute favorite read last year.

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Eira Brand @eirabrand.com · 18/07/2025

Before I start screaming from the rooftops about my paperback release, something really cool showed up in the mail. The deluxe editions of @jzacharypike.bsky.social's Dark Profit trilogy. I had the honor of designing the interiors for these, so seeing them in person is awesome! Thanks so much Zack!

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