J A Bowler

Who is Ice Cooper from the Ice Cooper Trilogy?
#IceCooperandtheDeptonShadelings
#IceCooperandtheBeastofBale
Coming very soon: #IceCooperandtheDaughteroftheSea
#Booksky #Writersky
#YA
#YAfantasy
#Urbanmystery
#SupernaturalCreatures
#neurodivergent
#BritishYA
#climatefiction

same frame as before but the top half shows a circle with three books standing upright. The are Ice cooper and the Depton Shadelings... and the Beast of Bale... and the Daughter of the Sea.

#fantasy #YA #Scottishcoast #ecofiction #climatechange

same frame as slide 1 but background is a woman in a brightly coloured shirt with images of pineapples. She is playing double bass on what looks like a stage at a festival.

Same frame as slide one but with background image of a fake fire in a stand alone fireplace in the corner of a lounge looking cosy. text says 3 fake fire

Same frame as slide one plus background image of a sulky looking boxer dog looking straight to camera. Text says 2 A rescue dog

Same frame as slide 1 but with a backdrop of a small group of african elephants standing by a water hole. Two adults and a juvenile and one baby. Text says 1 Elephants

a cream background with red and green line drawings of plants around the frame. Text says 5 things that gave me joy in 2025

Ice Cooper and the Depton Shadelings is FREE as part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale! Ice Cooper and the Beast of Bale is reduced. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

smashwords.com/sale #EOYsale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks #IceCooper #DeptonShadelings #BeastofBale #freebooks

The fourth #AuthorInterview in our @womenwritersnet.bsky.social series takes place on Thur 23 Oct. Can’t wait to interview @brethertonwords.bsky.social about her new novel, The Fire In Their Eyes! Come and join us - you are welcome to ask the author your questions! @breakthroughbook.bsky.social

We don't have a mask rule because we're "afraid".

You can't imagine the courage it takes to protect ourselves--when MSM and public dialogue don't just disdain but actively vilify us for protecting ourselves in! public! Ugh!

My top suggestions of books to read this World Bread Day...

- The Focaccia in the Rye
- Yeast of Eden
- Flours for Algernon
- The Lion, the Witch and the Warburtons
- Pannetonement
- The Naan in the High Castle
- Leaven Las Vegas
- Pitta Rabbit

I feel this about dialogue! So I love, for example, the opening scene in White Fang. 6 and a half paragraphs before any speech and then it packs a punch.

It's cinematic for me. I can mentally create the whole shebang. Colour, movement, sounds, and other senses. It might be for this reason that I love film adaptations, but have to read the book first and then compare the film-makers vision to my own.

The front cover of The improbable adventures of dexter duckworth, part 1: goblin earth by J A Bowler. It is a green background with silhoutte gnarly trees on both sides. In the forground is a cheeky mallard followed by a boy with a head torch emerging from a tunnel. Behind the tunnel is a smiling goblin girl with long red hair, an earring and a sharp stick.

I sold some copies of these at the Southam Book Fair, one of them to a primary teacher, and I'm so pleased that Dexter will get some more readers! I worry about the part where the goblins stick prisoners on the walls of their tunnel, but I wrote it for my Y5 and 6! #UKKidLit #SpookyBooks #Halloween

Yep. And the 'advice' out there is to write what people want to read. So we're getting an increasingly channeled set of pre-defined genres with only the occasional break out. I don't think the best books of the last 200 years fit this notion.

I think I started with the same price everywhere but couldn't keep up with the changes. I may have ignored IS for a while.

A recent flash fiction competition shortlist of 10 had only one written in the past tense. I know it's a very subjective opinion, but I can't not hear something both pretentious and childish when I read the present tense in fiction.

Well I did it. It's a great little book fair, though this year i wasn't shortlisted for their flash fiction. The venue would be excellent if not for the utter lack of #ventilation! Kept my #ffp3 on all day. Still managed to chat to authors and visitors! #authorsinmasks

A woman is standing looking to camera behind a table on which there are books. Other tables with books in the room books indicate that it is a book fair. She has a poster board showing a book series entitled 'Ice Cooper'. The woman is wearing a black T-shirt over a red top. She is also wearing a black FFP3 face mask

I'll be at Southam Book Fest, Sun 12/10 and yes I'll be #masked again! I don't want to. I'm not anxious. I have to remember the science to maintain my resolve. It doesn't help sales; people don't understand I'm the person definitely not infecting anyone. #Covid levels high; local hospital is full.

Name a book that doesn't fit neatly into any one #genre

Self-publishing transparency post:

I make the most on an Amazon paperback.

I make the 2nd-most on an ebook from itch.

I make the 3rd-most on an ebook from anywhere else.

I make the least when you order a paperback through a bookstore.

tbc there’s no judgment on readers here; just facts ✌️

HMS King George V on arctic duty in WW2. Churchill called the convoy route to Murmansk in the Soviet arctic the “worst journey on earth,” with good reason. U-boats, air attack, surface raiders and of course the cold.

My novel 'The Wolves in Winter' is set here.

#Arctic #WW2 #RoyalNavy

A woman is standing looking to camera behind a table on which there are books. Other tables with books in the room books indicate that it is a book fair. She has a poster board showing a book series entitled 'Ice Cooper'. The woman is wearing a black T-shirt over a red top. She is also wearing a black FFP3 face mask

I'll be at Southam Book Fest, Sun 12/10 and yes I'll be #masked again! I don't want to. I'm not anxious. I have to remember the science to maintain my resolve. It doesn't help sales; people don't understand I'm the person definitely not infecting anyone. #Covid levels high; local hospital is full.

Please don’t unfollow me

I would like everyone involved with books—reviewers, librarians, booksellers, readers—to read this article and understand that what you’re being served is incredibly skewed by capitalism.

There’s a pernicious idea that publishing is a meritocracy. It hasn’t been in a long time, if ever.

Reading is great and wonderful.

Watching video content is also great and wonderful!

For some people, like my intellectually disabled kids, it’s a lot more accessible and it’s amazing what they learn from what they watch.

Vocabulary, science, human relationships, you name it.

A woman with long hair, partly green, wearing a black ffp3 mask, is in a selfie next to a stand of her books and a poaster. These are the Ice Cooper series, The Improbable Adventures of Dexter Duckworth, and the Handy Booklet for Writing.

At the #southwarwickshireliteraryfestival. @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social everything going smoothly. #mask worn for insurance, though IAQ not actually bad. It hasn't gone above 600ppm.

August 30 #WIPsnips – “nose”

In this snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension,” a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is on the agenda. Gregory’s taken with El Greco’s “Vision of St John” while Jenny ponders whether Christ exited this earthly realm in a more undignified manner than she'd thought.

“Where’s the rest of the crew?”

The four of them looked at one another, counting noses and/or noseless faces, then looked back at me.

I pictured the crew that served with my parents in the military. “Navigator? Engineer? Medical officer? Cook and bottle washer?”

-The Cosmic Turkey
#WIPSnips

#WIPSnips for 8/30: Nose

This issue isn’t what Tim’s mom is hiding from him, it’s what’s being hidden from her….and that’s all I’m telling you. 😝

#WriteSky #YAFantasy #QueerWriters