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W. James Chan, Author

@wjameschan.bsky.social
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I'm W. James Chan. He/Him/Human linktr.ee/wjameschan -- all about my books ko-fi.com/wjameschan -- here you can get my ebooks for free/PWYW, and read my reviews of indie gems Member of the Inkslingers Idiots PDNI

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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is the only reason I am on here. So if we are banned or whatever, let it be my last declaration. I hate social media. I despise cults of personality. I am a writer precisely because I am not cool or charismatic. Fuck this whole song and dance.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
No.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Romantasy and slow burn hockey romances. Yes, I do have a WIP. It's about lovers to enemies dragon riders on ice. It's tentatively called "A penalty of ice and fire". Lmk if you want more.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
JUST DIE ALREADY YOU GHOUL
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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
"There is no more ni hao. Only ni HOWDY" will now live alongside "yeHONK" in my brain, forever reducing me to tears.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
What do we say to the god of death? Not Takei.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
It's all that...and really fucking good prose.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Me reading The Internet: AI fucking sucks! Me reading Asimov's Adventures of Daneel & Giskard: AI fucking rocks! (Just finishing Robots and Empire [so good], about to leap into Foundation. Prep reading to watch Spartacus: House of Ashur. Wait, wrong sexy show. Interview with the Vampire. Yes.)
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It might just be cognitive bias but an unusually high number of tradgreat authors I follow on here are waxing hella political and while I don't feel seen I definitely feel felt. I'm sorry the sky isn't blue. Yet. But pretending it's not grey isn't the way through this storm either.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
America: the world's first narcoleptocracy.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
RIP Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Scariest motherfucker in an American-made Yakuza flick ever. Those *eyes*. And the surprising beating heart of Man in the High Castle. May all those souls he stole sustain him in the Netherrealm.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
i have been pondering this for days. He has it. His son has it. King Sorrow was deeply problematic and I blew through all 900 (!?) pages in a week. Dude. How. Re docsleep movie: I've been a Flannagan fan since Midnight Mass. So...if people say it's good, I'm inclined to believe them.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Agreed. I had vague dreams of creating a communal imprint based less on genre and more on a commitment to literary style but eh. I won't go near those bundles with my stuff. Arrogance. Pride. Something. I just don't want to "compete" with books written to do something... biologically specific.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I want to publicly apologise for ever questioning Nodald Slump's academic experience. Dude is clearly in the IV league. He knows how to president like the back of his hand. Hell, he can do it in his sleep. Can and doze.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Today I'm angry. I'm other things too but were you to ask, that'd be my answer. Good thing you didn't ask. Good thing my lazy abandonment of professional politesse on here has probably removed me from your purview. Good things come to those who wait before sharing. Anyway, Sacred 2 is still fun.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Dozing Donnie Donald Slump Commander-in-Sleep 👉"You're Tired!" Mr. I (you have to sort of sing that one; iykyk) ...Look, I'm not really reaching here, but it's not like "Sleepy Joe" was the apex of wit either.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
So we found this hella dodgy Chinatown dvd/bluray shop this weekend and I finally had a $10 reason to pick up both The Shining and the apparently very good Doctor Sleep. For reference, most blurays here are 20 bucks. I'm sure the books are better but I have more important things to read. ^_^
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
On phone and too lazy to crop/copy text/etc. Just look at Kegs' nametag.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
What fresh heil is this?
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WATCH: Trump defends boat strikes, attacks Somali immigrants in final Cabinet meeting of the year
The president started things off by noting that it was the last time his Cabinet would gather until 2026. The sleepy, and occasionally slipshod, gathering ended with a flurry of news.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Each chapter of Gildenhammer I narrate for the book club, my voice and delivery breaks a little more. Sure, I could edit it and dozens of takes, but why not give my closest readers a proper expression of how thoroughly the process of writing dismantles me until nothing but a fervid rasp remains?
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I remain ignorant as to the concrete differences between the sorts of early readers but...I think I prefer alpha/beta to ARC re room for feedback. So uh, sure. I'll give it a look, since I am mildly familiar with the larger body of work and so far have had no trouble enjoying it.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
An actual White House dot gov page naming and shaming reporters for doing their job?
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a neon sign that says miller time on a brick wall
Alt: a neon sign that says miller time on a brick wall
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We NEED to make this a thing. Slurs against people who cannot choose, who simply *are*, are abhorrent. Slurs against people choosing to do the wrong thing for their own benefit are not so much slurs as just correct labelling of abhorrent behaviour. 100% self-inflicted FAFO business.
Image from reddit of a person saying "we need a slur for people who use chatgpt for everything" and a response suggesting "3rd Party Thinkers" (3PT).
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Mine was "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus". Really changed how I thought about the person who told me to read it. Possibly not why we divorced though. Anyway my books are good and free to read. Contrary to popular, the two are not mutually exclusive. Plenty of great books are free to read.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Is this thing even fucking on
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Just in case you haven't cancelled your Amazon anything yet. FFS.
Melania Trump promoting a 40m dollar deal with Amazon. CANCEL AMAZON.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Quite easily one of the most reprehensible headlines I have seen Australia's publicly-funded, typically bipartisan news source ever publish. "Decades in the making" gives serious "inevitable" vibes to something that is not The Trumpstein Files.
"The flashpoints leading the US and Venezuela to the brink of a conflict decades in the making."

Headline from ABC News Australia, 28th November 2025
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Still applicable.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Look on the bright side: at least "invisible illness" is a term now. When you fall down go boom, it'll be Schrodinger's Splat: we both didn't and did see it coming. (Probably a loose-arse intepretation of the concept but one must stoop for the puns.)
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I can say with utter confidence *nothing* in this image is random or arbitrary. Every detail links back to Gildenhammer. Astounding.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The detail in this WIP genuinely puts the source to shame. Disclaimer: I am the source. I wrote the book that inspired this. I have been put to shame. Feels pretty fucking great.
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Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Now and then, I go back through old posts and go "wtf that's cute. I forgot I even drew that?" Mako-chan. 🩷💚
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I can quote most of Big Trouble in Little China, having killed vhs tapes rewatching it as a kid. But I never quite understood what "It's Miller Time" meant (being Australian and all). Anyway, anytime I see the Pumpkin Pedo peddle the words "punishable by death", I'm pretty sure it's Miller time.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Damn glad to see Quietpiggy blow up. I read it when it happened and was like why isn't this bigger. I get that we just accept the vile personal attacks but this one struck me as a massive "showing you who he really is" moment. Zero waffle, zero filter. Just a Big Man fed up with them uppity women.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
ko-fi.com/post/Dragon-... Because obvs I have more than 300 or so characters to say about it. I can't tell if the title is a lie or not, but I'll never tire of bad dragon puns. (As opposed to Bad Dragon puns.)
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Dragon it out: Not a Review of King Sorrow by Joe Hill
W. James Chan published a post on Ko-fi
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Finished King Sorrow (Joe Hill, 275k words apparently -- I believe it) in almost record time. Does that mean it was good? Eh. It means it was decent lasagne. I can eat a heap of that shit, but most days I prefer a big salad, a modest amount of protein and carbs, maybe a slice of carrot cake. 3/5
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We're about to see the most impressive cooking job in American history. Special thanks to the 1000 FBI kitchenhands without whom this wouldn't be possible.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
As Zuckbook continues to enshittify itself, I find myself wishing I had my following/community there, here. Sure would be nice to finally ditch it...
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
At this point, this glorious point amid such a bluntly terrible year, it's not whether or not they'll do him; it's all about WHAT they will do him for. Season 47 of This Is America may yet end with a bang and not a whimper...
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
As an Australian I sometimes wondered what the R stood for. Rats. It stands for Rats.
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two men playing violins with the words living in 2025 be like on the bottom
ALT: two men playing violins with the words living in 2025 be like on the bottom
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Sludging through King Sorrow, the doorstop du jour, and I can feel certain of my editor acquaintances breathing fire from here. Were this an indie work in beta stage, I would be a very busy fellow indeed. Instead it's an $18 bigbox impulse buy: me chasing the Needful Things dragon. Wrong dragon.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Eh fine. Not bothering to quote anyone but it's as fun an idea as any. Here's the first paragraph of my first novel, Blackcloak, published in 2015 and written in the folly of late-stage youthful fatalism. It has "look I am a serious writer trying very hard here" written all over it.
First paragraph of W. James Chan's first novel, "Blackcloak". The first few lines are: 

This is how I begin his song. 

There is blood on a leaf.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My books are good. And free. I dunno, apparently that isn't enough for people. I mean, I'm not the only one saying they're good. Plenty of river page and GR reviews. Do you really think sprayed edges and a bunch of fucking tropes would make the writing any better?
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
So I should post about my experiences as a tourist at the Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival, but I'm still kind of processing. It was a *lot* of 🌶️ and 🐈 and 🦁 and 🦇 and 🪄. Some 🤑 ❤️ too. 🐎. Is there room in that for my themes-not-tropes🌙 and ✝️ ? Maybe. But I admit I have my doubts...
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Forget the elephant in the room; try ignoring the Elephants in the closet.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Essential American workers just about killing themselves for zero pay Families about to starve because maga want to make healthcare unaffordable And Muskratfucker about to become a *trillionaire* The fuck are we doing The FUCK are we doing?
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I am SO close to being something interesting. I'm half-PoC. I'm mildly aut. I'm happily cis but not very masc. I was wild online before "online" became quaint. I will not be remembered for what I did for many, but who I was to a few. On paper I'm dull Almost abbreviated I still write good books.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
As I said in my review, in which I give white a coveted five star Accolade, this is true poetry that makes it all seem unaffected and effortless. m.a. white is, to crib The Wire, natural-born Po-et. This little, immense book demands possession beyond the ever-disposable digital.
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Perhaps the most poignant part is between the lines: i am happy to declare the facts as equally true with no regrets. I am not saying I wasted that money even though I get more personal gaming joy out of a bargain bin game. There are different sorts of joy...
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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Physical? Hell yes. Will you be doing signed copies for shipping? Am in Australia, probably not visiting the US anytime soon. Apologies if you've already stated this elsewhere.
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