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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

UNLOCK THE BOX & PERISH ❤️‍🔥 excited to reveal the cover of my upcoming gothic thriller, ROAR OF THE LAMBS, where a lying psychic and her juvenile delinquent take on an apocalyptic, demon core-inspired box. preorder now, on sale August 26, link in my bio.

the official cover for my next book, ROAR OF THE LAMBS. the text reads: "Unlock the box. Unleash the apocalypse. Roar of the Lambs. From the author of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me, Jamison Shea." The illustration depicts a decorative carved box that is pale white, made of bone, with a sharp stick in the lock to keep it shut. The box is guarded by a large green snake that curls around it. Its mouth is open, fangs drawn. The background is dark. The foreground is gritty, a little grainy, with light purple scratches in the image.

"Know your place, little lamb." Winnie Bray is psychic and used to being ignored. And then one day she sees her death in Apollo Rathbun's future. It's better that they stay away from each other, but their fates are entwined. A box carved from bone whispers to them, and if they give in, calamity will follow.

A trope map of ROAR OF THE LAMBS: psychic who's allergic to telling the truth, delusional with year ing, genderqueer delinquent with a (secret) heart of gold, nuclear physics-bending magic, dual pov, bi4bi, opposites attract, family beef that spans generations, Pandora's box as a family heirloom, what if we kiss in the creepy dungeon in my Gothic house, new date idea: stopping reach bros from destroying the planet, and since you don't want to listen to us, how about we throw a molotov cocktail through your front window? can you hear that?

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

with code PREORDER25, you can get 25% off online preorders today and tomorrow from Barnes & Noble. 💫

25% of all Barnes and Noble preorders, all formats, exclusive to members with an additional 10% off for premium. free to enroll.

Why preorder? Preorders tell publishers that readers want more stories like these, from authors like this. It shows that marginalized authors and characters aren't a financial risk, and we're worthy of investment. It helps bookstores know what to stock. If your local store doesn't stock certain types of authors, certain books, it's because not enough people are requesting them. People aren't ordering enough, so booksellers don't know about it, or they think you don't care. Show them you care.

Books I have in 2025: ROAR OF THE LAMBS, standalone romantic thriller starring a lying psychic, enby delinquent, and Pandora's box coming August 26. Paperback release of I AM THE DARK THAT ANSWERS WHEN YOU CALL, also coming August 26. THESE DREAMING SPIRES, dark academia anthology featuring my short story, "Destroying Angel" coming September 2.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

guess what!! THESE DREAMING SPIRES, a dark academia anthology edited by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan, is coming September 2 from Titan, and it includes my short story, "Destroying Angel," where an expelled philosophy student finds the necronomicon and decides to continue his education. ❤️‍🔥 🔗 in bio.

the cover of THESE DREAMING SPIRES which features the outline of a gothic building drawn in gold. it is edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane, and features authors such as Genevieve Cogman, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Olivie Blake, M. K. Lobb, and many more.

An snippet from the opening of "Destroying Angel" which reads:

As the newspapers and true crime obsessives now talk about me, swearing that I'm a cautionary tale, having been seduced by power, let it be known that the seduction was all mine.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I HAVE A BOOK COMING OUT THIS YEAR 🖤🖤👉🏾👈🏾 A psychic who lies all the time teams up with a genderqueer bullshit detector to stop the world from ending... what could go wrong? Add on Goodreads now 🐍 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

ROAR OF THE LAMBS, August 26

"There was something in the flush of her cheeks, her hand in their throat, that warmed Apollo from the inside and rewired their brain so that they looked forward to helping her. To seeing the mystery written on her face, breathing in the wind as it fluttered through her hair. Apollo was remaking themself into a hero just for her, and they couldn't stop now."

ROAR OF THE LAMBS by Jamison Shea marketing graphic, cover yet to be revealed:

psychic who's allergic to telling the truth hearts juvenile delinquent with a secret heart of gold, family beef that spans generations, Pandora's box as a family heirloom, what if we kiss in the creepy dungeon in my Gothic house, and new date idea: stopping tech bros from destroying the planet.

If you knew the world was ending, who would you save? And would they let you?

Sixteen-year-old Winnie Bray is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want reassurance, and Winnie only wants their money. Favorable fortunes are a fast track to funding her way out of Buffalo, New York for good, after all.

But all of that changes when a vision sends her stalking in the remains of her family home that burned down in a fire 10 years ago. Among the ash and rubble, Winnie finds a box made of bone, untouched by flames and…whispering. At the touch of her finger, the box shows her a vision of death, chaos, and apocalypse, with her and rich kids Apollo and Cyrus Rathbun at the center.

Apollo knows their cousin is up to no good, and with the Rathbun family scattered to the wind, they know Cyrus is aiming to present himself as the new patriarch. Despite an initial attraction, Apollo is reluctant to believe Winnie. But soon it becomes clear that their family histories are intertwined, with the whispering, hungry box at the very center, and more than their lives are on the line. Together, they must discover the origins of the box and stop unforeseen forces from fulfilling the apocalyptic prophecy, or die trying.

From the author of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me comes a speculative thriller about the ties that bind us to places and people, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White and Tochi Onyebuchi.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

my 2024 was proggy metalcore and hating Drake lmao

my 2024 Spotify wrapped includes 11,497 minutes streamed. top artists are Silent Planet, Spiritbox, Bring Me The Horizon, Northlane, and My Chemical Romance. top songs are Antimatter, euphoria, Sucks 2 Suck, Collider, and Not Like Us.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Shanspeare posted a new essay - how the "girl math, girl dinner, I'm just a girl" trend is influenced white supremacy and gender essentialism, conservative values that exclude people of color, trans people, disabled people, and poor people. Finally!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=BaKs...

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

look at this Hello Kitty i painted 🥺🥺🥺

a small Hello Kitty sculpture that has corpse paint (so white face, black eyes and black veins), a black crescent moon on the forehead, and a pentagram above it in red. the bow is black. the overalls are black, with Hello Kitty written in the stereotypical metal font, the shirt underneath is grey. The kitty has been splattered with red paint to look like blood.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

France announcing Netanyahu gets immunity from the ICC, this image is evergreen

a scene from Touki Bouki (1973) where two Senegalese women are talking and one says to the other, "France? Nothing good comes of it."

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

my copyeditor called the gore in my book "deliciously gruesome" weeeeeee

a photo of SpongeBob but he's floating in open air and glowing, transcending to heaven

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

my next book ROAR OF THE LAMBS comes out in August - a standalone gothic, where a psychic who lies all the time dupes a genderqueer troublemaker into helping avert a doomsday vision, à la Crimson Peak meets Final Destination. check out the link above to add it on Goodreads 👀

a photo of the book deal announcement from Publishers Weekly: Jess Harold at Henry Holt has bought, in an exclusion submission, ROAR OF THE LAMBS, a speculative YA thriller by Jamison Shea, in which a clairvoyant 16-year-old discovers a mysterious box that triggers a vision of the apocalypse and mist partner with the irresistible heir of a powerful local family to stop them from unleashing an evil that could destroy the world. Publication is slated for fall 2025; Jennifer March Soloway at Andrea Brown Literary Agency did the six-figure deal for world English rights.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

a proper (re)introduction #booksky: i'm Jamison Shea, author of dark fantasy duology I FEED HER TO THE BEAST, where a Black ballerina makes a deal with an eldritch god for power. imagine Black Swan + Venom, feat. chaotic bisexuals destroying Parisian landmarks - out now 🩸🖤 bio.link/wickedjamison

a photo of me, the author, a Black person of medium brown tone, with short locs that are golden in the front, black in back. I wear glasses and dark lipstick. I have gold rings in each nostril and a stack through my septum. I stretch my ears. I swear a black velvet top and hold a stack of books: four different editions of I FEED HER TO THE BEAST as well as its sequel, I AM THE DARK. I stand beside a bookshelf cluttered with books.

the cover of I FEED HER TO THE BEAST, depicting a Black girl standing in a gothic hallway, looking regal while blood runs down her face. Some ingredients for the book are: Lovecraft meets Black Swan on the Paris Catacombs, good-for-her, corruption arc, found family, a talking river of blood, Faustian deals, girls committing crimes, monster romance, toxic female friendship.

the cover of I AM THE DARK, depicting a Black girl screaming while a monster peeks beneath her skin. Some ingredients for the book are: she's still possessed but it's worse now, bisexual panic, "what are we?" monster romance, girls committing more crimes, good for her again, still biting people, complicated parental relationships, fucked up animals, and recovering from burnout.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

UN Special Committee will be presenting a report to the general assembly on Monday that Israel's behavior in Gaza is consistent with genocide, including mass killing of civilians and starvation. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

A screenshot from United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. A press release dated November 14, 2024 headlines, "UN Special Committee finds Israel's warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as a weapon of war"

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

howdy, I published a book and finished my darling dark fantasy duology today. I AM THE DARK THAT ANSWERS WHEN YOU CALL is out now. 🌚🖤

a photo of me, Jamison Shea, a black author with black rimmed glasses, a mixture of black and golden locks, gold rings through both nostrils and septum. I hold a book - I Am the Dark, which has a black girl screaming on the cover.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

autumn's here in helsinki, there are dead leaves on the ground, the smell of dirt and dead leaves in the air, and it's chilly enough to need a light jacket which makes for moody dramatic photos of my book

a photo of my book, I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME, framed by red and yellow leaves and large black Doc Martens boots.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

the tension between me wanting to talk about my new wip and me wanting to scream about this pretty lil cover 🥲 she's so babygirl

the full cover (front, back, and spine) for the UK version of my book, I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME. the front depicts a black girl staring defiantly at the viewer as she floats in a river of blood. looming behind her is a cavernous skull. on the back is the book synopsis which I cannot fit here, along with the price 8.99 pounds, and the keywords: desire, ambition, perfection, sacrifice.

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

how about a book dedication? ✨🩸🩰 I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME is for the hungry. sharpen your claws bc it's time to get fed.

a screenshot of the dedication which is in all caps serif font against a white background and reads, "To those who find freedom in becoming monster when denied the space to be human."

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