Jordan L. Hawk

Flyer with ALL OFUS MURDERERS cover and text saying 'One of Kobo's Best of the Month'

I am very excited that ALL OF US MURDERERS has been picked as one of Kobo's Best of the Month!

It's out everywhere today, in e at all platforms, in print at all good bookshops (it's the BA Indie Book of the Month!) and in audio read by Sonny Archer. Have at it!

books2read.com/u/mloE7q

I loved this series! It's like The Godfather meets a martial arts movie.

A bully believes that kindness is weakness. A fool believes that bullying is strength. A true warrior knows that a bully is weak, and that compassion and kindness are strengths they could never comprehend.

Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed: 1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks 2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens 3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens 4: India: Cottons Cowries 5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns 6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance 7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products 8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain 9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco 10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo 11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses 12: Brazil: Coffee 13: Brazil: Gold 14: Mexico / Peru: Silver 15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America. A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled: Yellow: Books with gold covers Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell) Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book) The Office (where hazel makes tea) Bathroom Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out) The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece) Taboo The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase) Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens) A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs.

Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean.

Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge". The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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Laws are only ever traditions: it only takes one generation for people to stop believing and abandon them.

A screenshot of a test search on the DepositPhotos site with the gear icon in the top right circled and “Exclude Generative AI” set to on in that drop-down, not the filters on the left.

I think I figured out how to always exclude genAI slop from my DepositPhotos searches!

I was setting the exclude filter with the filters on the left side of the page, & they reset every time I reopened the tab.

But there is another setting! It’s the gear at the top of the page after you search:

Thank you!

Cut back some dead stalks in our flower patch, and my hair is now full of evening primrose seeds.

So tired of the first amendment only applying to people abusing minorities and the people who support them.

EAT THE MIDDLE AGES YUM!

A mini mosaic pendant with a silver cherub, faceted red stones, and porcelain skull chips

Copper wired shark tooth earrings on long black oval hoops.

A white baroque pearl necklace with garnet rounds in between pearls.

A skull in silver and black wreath pendant on a silver chain

there are still some glorious nightmares to be nabbed from the Nightborne Collection - grab these one of a kind pieces now!

✨🖤☠️🖤✨

www.peculiarityshop.com/nightborne

...I need to take this advice to heart

We have mod tools but it’s not enough.

We can post smut here but it’s not enough.

We started with a better vibe here but it’s not enough.

It’s not enough when Jay and the Bluesky team are openly hostile to the communities they drew here, changing the pH and temp to favor bigots and call it choice

I'm sympathetic to moderation challenges, and I'd like to be supportive of the site, but Jay is really going out of her way to make that difficult.

Mostly, I think, because she resents being unable to use the site like an ordinary user. Which, I mean, 🤷‍♂️, it's why you get paid the medium bucks.

THIS!!

As someone with Long Covid, I highly recommend not getting it.

Using the language we use to describe machines and applying it to humans is dehumanizing, because--wait for it--humans are not machines.

The word we use when we describe machines with human language is "anthropomorphizing."

Fed. judge grants TRO blocking Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland.

Holds that, at this stage, Plaintiffs appear likely to succeed on their ultra vires and Tenth Amendment claims.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CHARITY PRINTS. I’ve changed all my black and white queer joy prints to queer joy charity prints. 100% of the proceeds of these prints will go to local queer organizations. Thank you to everyone who helps and allows me to contribute to our community.

People who say audiobooks don't count as reading are fuckin losers

That's amazing!

One of my cats woke me up this morning by putting her paw on my lips. 😭

Maybe the morning sun backlight your leathery wings magnificently.

The whole series is a lot of fun

Work in progress for a new commission today. 24x30” acrylic on wood.

Stop Cock was one of the titles in JL Merrow's Plumber's Mate series, great series

I fucking LOVED the Plumber's Mate series by JL Merrow, including the title puns

The question (with 109 supporters who want to know) is: Is an animal sad? 1 person clicked yes, 4 people clicked no Yuyawa commented: Unless you describe a werewolf as an animal then yes, but if you don’t then no, there are no sad animals

I love Does the Dog Die as a resource, especially as a horror movie fanatic who has a very specific and commonly depicted phobia. I also just love it for some of the comments people leave

www.doesthedogdie.com

The takeaway from “ICE is hiring prisoners” is not “prisoners are scary,” but actually “prison labor is forced labor because prisoners don’t get to choose jobs on the open market.”

And the more people they throw in prisons, the more people they can force to do their dirty work.