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J. A. Nunn

@nuanja.bsky.social

Finally writing the novels which family histories, personal experience (truck driver, TV news guy, English teacher, gov. official, tech marketeer), and travel (25 countries; 12yrs in Japan; 1970-73—Berkeley 2yrs, the South 1yr) have filled my head.

9 Followers  |  6 Following  |  23 Posts  |  Joined: 17.11.2024  |  1.4123

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Semi-Finalist!

23.01.2026 03:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Semi-Finalist!

17.01.2026 18:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mention of me and my latest novel, The Stuff What Actually Is, in the latest edition of the University of Redlands alumni magazine.

18.12.2025 01:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My latest novel, The Stuff What Actually Is, made the Semi-Finalist short list!

18.12.2025 01:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Driven by quiet unease and its hero’s mounting discomfort with the truth about American culture, The Stuff What Actually Is is a powerful historical novel.” — Kiana Curtis

11.11.2025 20:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#histfic Though sometimes perhaps hard to believe, The Stuff What Actually Is--my newly published historical fiction novel--is based on events which either actually happened, or, according to verifiable research, could have happened.

18.06.2025 23:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Got a very nice review of my newly published historical fiction novel, The Stuff What Actually Is. Hope you read the book, like the book and tell your friends.

18.06.2025 23:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Though sometimes perhaps hard to believe, The Stuff What Actually Is--my newly published historical fiction novel--is based on events which either actually happened, or, according to verifiable research, could have happened.

18.06.2025 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Published by Girl Friday a local woman-owned company.

13.05.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Review of The Stuff What Actually Is The Stuff What Actually Is: Driven by quiet unease and its hero’s mounting discomfort with the truth about American culture, "The Stuff What Actually Is" is a powerful historical novel. J. A. Nunn’s i...

Hope you like it if you decide to get a copy. Here’s a recent, pre-publication review. www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-...

13.05.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@jcdemund.bsky.social

Hi, Jeanne! It’s Jim Nunn. More or less finally figured out how to use Bluesky after having signed up about 5 months ago. Publishing a novel 6/2/25. It’s “The Stuff What Actually Is” a work of historical fiction based partly on some of my relatives’ experiences during WW2.

13.05.2025 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Review of The Stuff What Actually Is The Stuff What Actually Is: Driven by quiet unease and its hero’s mounting discomfort with the truth about American culture, "The Stuff What Actually Is" is a powerful historical novel. J. A. Nunn’s i...

www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-...

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Review of The Stuff What Actually Is The Stuff What Actually Is: Driven by quiet unease and its hero’s mounting discomfort with the truth about American culture, "The Stuff What Actually Is" is a powerful historical novel. J. A. Nunn’s i...

www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-...

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Here is the full cover mockup of my soon-to-be published American historical fiction paperback.

12.03.2025 22:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Stuff What Actually Is: A Novel Amazon.com: The Stuff What Actually Is: A Novel eBook : Nunn, J.A.: Kindle Store

The e-version of my American historical fiction book The Stuff What Actually Is can be pre-ordered at this link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F19GCSX... It will be delivered to the customer’s device June 3, 2025. The paperback version should be released also around that time.

12.03.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Real strength is the power to leverage without force.

13.02.2025 05:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2024 Hemingway Awards Short List for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction The Hemingway Short List for Contemporary Wartime Fiction is here! Congratulations to those who made the list! Thank you to all who submitted!

Made the Short List! www.chantireviews.com/2025/01/05/t...

11.01.2025 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2024 Hemingway Book Awards Long List for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction The 2024 Hemingway Long List is here for 20th and 21st Wartime Fiction. These historical novels offer critical information that we ought never forget.

My upcoming novel, “The Stuff What Actually Is” made the list! (Under a pen name)
www.chantireviews.com/2024/11/14/t...

05.01.2025 19:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am writing a historical novel set in the South during WW2. I have a white racist character use “N*****” a few times so the reader vicariously experiences a tiny amount of the hatred of the time and place, and for the purpose of eliciting his/her maximum sympathy for the black characters. Opinion?

26.11.2024 23:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Which is why there is so much $#!+ all around us.

25.11.2024 17:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I will soon be publishing a novel based on the experiences of my father, an immigrant raised by his VERY British parents in an all-white neighborhood in LA before being drafted soon after Pearl Harbor and forced to take a crash course in “The Stuff What Actually Is” when sent to the Jim Crow South.

25.11.2024 16:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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