W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025This 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. 041
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Romantasy 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. 110
Reposted by W. James Chan, AuthorMitch 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. 062
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025What do we say to the god of death? Not Takei. 131
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025It's all that...and really fucking good prose. 020
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Me 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.) 061
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025It 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. 010
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025America: the world's first narcoleptocracy. 051
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025RIP 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. 020
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025i 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. 000
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Agreed. 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. 000
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I 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. 141
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Today 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. 040
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Dozing 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. 041
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025So 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. ^_^ 110
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025On phone and too lazy to crop/copy text/etc. Just look at Kegs' nametag. 010
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025What fresh heil is this?pbs.orgWATCH: Trump defends boat strikes, attacks Somali immigrants in final Cabinet meeting of the yearThe 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. 110
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Each 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? 032
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I 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. 120
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025An actual White House dot gov page naming and shaming reporters for doing their job?media.tenor.coma neon sign that says miller time on a brick wallAlt: a neon sign that says miller time on a brick wall 040
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025We 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. 131
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Mine 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. 030
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Just in case you haven't cancelled your Amazon anything yet. FFS. 010
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Quite 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. 010
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Look 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.) 120
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I can say with utter confidence *nothing* in this image is random or arbitrary. Every detail links back to Gildenhammer. Astounding. 010
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025The 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. 130
Reposted by W. James Chan, AuthorKate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Now and then, I go back through old posts and go "wtf that's cute. I forgot I even drew that?" Mako-chan. 🩷💚 182
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I 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. 020
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Damn 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. 042
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025ko-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.)ko-fi.comDragon it out: Not a Review of King Sorrow by Joe HillW. James Chan published a post on Ko-fi 023
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Finished 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. 3/5 010
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025We'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. 141
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025As Zuckbook continues to enshittify itself, I find myself wishing I had my following/community there, here. Sure would be nice to finally ditch it... 020
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025At 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... 010
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025As an Australian I sometimes wondered what the R stood for. Rats. It stands for Rats.media.tenor.comtwo men playing violins with the words living in 2025 be like on the bottomALT: two men playing violins with the words living in 2025 be like on the bottom 040
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Sludging 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. 020
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Eh 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. 032
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025My 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? 010
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025So 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... 231
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Forget the elephant in the room; try ignoring the Elephants in the closet. 020
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Essential 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? 020
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I 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. 010
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025As 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. 011
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Perhaps 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... 110
W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Physical? 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. 120