@josephreinauthor.bsky.social
Author of the YOUTOPIA series; professor; avid reader, writer, father, coach. https://josephrein.com
Big thanks to Ken and Luella for hosting me on the Midwest Writers Room!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLub...
We have a cover! Might be my favorite one yet...
24.09.2025 20:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Audiobook version of Youtopia Reborn is now available! I hear it's great for commutes...
books2read.com/JR-Youtopia-...
Kinni River Writing Retreat flyer
23.03.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Youtopia book cover
$0.99 for a limited time! What if you could live in YOUR perfect world?
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Recently finished this short story collection by @josephreinauthor.bsky.social He has a style all of his own, and a particular skill in portraying ‘the raw truth of human experience’. Stunning writing. 🌟
13.02.2025 15:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Don't back down! That's the time to hilariously change back anything the other person edits
29.01.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Long story short, characters need to be flawed, and need to work through it
24.01.2025 18:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So, I was 200 pages into a book and just gave up on it. I usually don't go that far, but the author dangled an interesting carrot at the opening--the MC was hiding a dark past--but then revealed halfway through that it wasn't actually her dark past, it was her father's. That was it for me
24.01.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Youtopia: an award-winning Techno-thriller: a.co/d/inKpmzd
Book Trailer: youtu.be/MGE_PDJTejE
"Group" has, and never will, look right to me
24.01.2025 18:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The day I realized that in my head and on the page are two separate entities--and that the latter can actually be even better than the former, if I follow it--was when it really began for me
24.01.2025 18:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A big thanks to Michael Parkes for a great interview!
buymeacoffee.com/michaelparke...
…And look what came in the post today - Roads Without Houses, short story collection by @josephreinauthor.bsky.social
First peek looks amazing!
Youtopia Reborn, part two in the award-winning series, out now on hardcover, paperback, and ebook!
a.co/d/9ybLzgV
Thanks June! Hope my book provides some inspiration!
15.01.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Haven't been blown away by a book in a while, but the start of Alan Moore's "The Great When" has a lot of promise...
07.01.2025 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A blessing and a curse...
23.12.2024 18:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Everyone: "I've got to finish my Christmas shopping!"
Me: "I've got to finish hammering out this chapter!"
Before it came out I was skeptical of Heath Ledger as Joker, though, so hopefully I'm dead wrong again...
19.12.2024 18:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0James Gunn is great...and it can't be worse than what they've done in the recent past...but, something about seeing another Superman trailer puts me right on edge. They've scarred me, maybe beyond repair...
19.12.2024 18:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I would also love for a fan to quote a short passage to me, and for me to not get it right away...
17.12.2024 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes! If I was any sort of visual artist, I'd do my own, but it still wouldn't have that flair of a fan putting their spin on it...
17.12.2024 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That's a good one...and now I'm envisioning it too...
17.12.2024 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Any other writers out there have strange writing goals? One of mine is to sit down in an airplane and see someone across the aisle reading my book... #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Elves on the shelf imprison Spider-Man
Update: the Elves get their revenge...
16.12.2024 21:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Best time to write is in your head when you're supposed to be doing something else!
16.12.2024 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I live in Wisconsin, so this is me daily...
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